Do you want to control tarnished plant bugs using the biological control method?
Do you want to prevent the damage tarnished pant bugs could make in your vegetable garden?
Do you want to control tarnished plant bugs using insecticides?
There are natural enemies of tarnished plant bugs, including a parasitic wasp, which was released for control of tarnished plant bugs in alfalfa (Peristenus digoneutis). This was released in New Jersey and has spread throughout the Northeast, and can cause up to 50% mortality. However, it currently does not reduce the numbers sufficiently to prevent damage to key crops. Common predators, such as ladybeetles, spined soldier bugs, and insidious flower bugs also prey on nymphs.
Floating row covers placed over low-growing plants in vegetable gardens provide a physical barrier protecting plants against tarnished plant bugs. When the crop’s flowers appear, floating row covers must be removed to admit pollinating insects. White sticky traps placed above the canopy are used in strawberries and can be used in vegetables to indicate when adults are present.
Chemical control can be tricky with this pest as no insecticides will affect the eggs while they rest inside the plant, and it cannot be applied to fruit trees for a long period of the growing season since pesticides should not be sprayed while the trees are blooming, which is when the tarnished plant bug would be the most attracted to the plant. Insecticidal soap can be used; however, since there is often more than 1 generation per year, the soap can damage the plant if used several times throughout the season. Chemical insecticides for the tarnished plant bug include malathion and carbaryl. Be sure to carefully read the label for cautions and proper application.
Control weeds and fall plant debris in and around gardens and orchards to reduce tarnished plant bugs egg-laying and overwintering sites. Tarnished plant bugs attack a large variety of weeds, flowers, forage crops, and orchard crops. Weed hosts include wild carrots and other umbelliferous crops, redroot pigweed (and other amaranths), lambsquarters, mustards, shepardspurse, rocket, goldenrod, and mullein.
https://ag.umass.edu/vegetable/fact-sheets/tarnished-plant-bug
https://extension.unh.edu/resource/tarnished-plant-bug-fact-sheethttps://www.farms.com/field-guide/pests/tarnished-plant-bug.aspx
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Hi! I’m Sreten Filipović. I graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Belgrade, with a master's degree in Environmental Protection in Agricultural Systems. I’ve worked as a researcher at Finland's Natural Resources Institute (LUKE) on a project aimed at adapting south-western Finland to drought episodes. I founded a consulting agency in the field of environment and agriculture to help farmers who want to implement the principles of sustainability on their farms. I’m also a founding member of the nonprofit organization Ecogenesis from Belgrade whose main goal is non-formal education on the environment and ecology. In my spare time, I like to write blog posts about sustainability, the environment, animal farming, horticulture, and plant protection. I’ve also published several science-fiction short stories.
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