2022
Stink Bug Management in Soybeans of the Coastal Bend of Texas
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Texas Soybean Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
Biotic stressCrop protectionField management Pest
Parent Project:
Stink Bug Management in Soybeans of the Coastal Bend of Texas
Lead Principal Investigator:
Stephen Biles, Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Texas Soybean Board
$2,000
Institution Funded:
Texas A&M University-Port Lavaca TX
$2,000
Brief Project Summary:
The composition of the stink bug species complex includes four primary stink bugs species: green, southern green, brown and red-banded stink bugs. Determining the species infesting a field or locality is important due to control failures when treating brown and red-banded stink bugs. Application of effective insect control is key to reducing insect losses and maintaining profitability of soybeans in Texas. This area of research seeks to determine the stink bug species composition and evaluate insecticide efficacy for stink bug control along the mid-coast of Texas. It includes field monitoring for soybean insects and conducing field trials to compare insecticide efficacy of the stink bug species encountered during the growing season.
Key Beneficiaries:
#agronomists, #extension agents, #farmers
Unique Keywords:
#insect control, #insecticide, #insects, #insects and pests, #stink bugs
Information And Results
Project Summary

The composition of the stink bug species complex includes four primary stink bugs species: green, southern green, brown, and red-banded stink bugs. Determining the species infesting a field or locality is important due to control failures when treating brown and red-banded stink bugs. Application of effective insect control is key to reducing insect losses and maintaining profitability of soybeans in Texas. This area of research seeks to determine the stink bug species composition and evaluate insecticide efficacy for stink bug control along the mid-coast of Texas.

Project Objectives

Field monitoring for soybean insects in Calhoun, Refugio, and Victoria Counties and field trials will be conducted to compare insecticide efficacy of the stink bug species encountered during the growing season.

Project Deliverables

Insect studies will provide information on hard-to-kill insects.

Progress Of Work

Final Project Results

Benefit To Soybean Farmers

The application of effective insect control is key to reducing insect losses and maintaining profitability of soybeans in Texas. The results of our studies will be published on-line with the Texas A&M Soil and Crop Science website which has a section on variety testing. Also, the results will be presented at various county and extension grower meetings.

The United Soybean Research Retention policy will display final reports with the project once completed but working files will be purged after three years. And financial information after seven years. All pertinent information is in the final report or if you want more information, please contact the project lead at your state soybean organization or principal investigator listed on the project.