Bronze field beetle larva

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Bronze field beetle larva
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CMS P/L is first in Integrated Pest Management.  It brings you the Pest of the Month of June,     the ...Bronze field beetle larvae.

Description:

Damage:

Bronze field bettles attack many seedling but more specially brassica crops. They feed on the new growth as soon as the seed bursts and germinates. Affected crop may have large area with little or no seedlings surviving. Slow growing crops are likely to suffer more damage in low soil temperature. In severe infestation a ring bark effect on the tap root can still occur at the young rosette stage eventually causing death leaving scattered dead plants.

Management:

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