C34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 15,1980
USDA
in $lOO,OOO for
Eastern Shore beetle blitz
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The
USDA’s Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service
has given the green light to a
joint effort blitz against the
Mexican bean beetle on the
central and upper Eastern
Shore of Maryland. APHIS
has agreed to back the
project with approxunatey
$lOO,OOO m funds.
The project, utilizing
parasitic wasps which
destroy the Mexican bean
beetle larvae by laying eggs
in them, is to be carried out
by 300 soybean growers in
Kent, Queen Anne’s,
Caroline, Talbot and Dor
chester counties through the
efforts of APHIS, the
Maryland Department of
Agriculture’s Plant
Protection Section and the
Maryland Cooperative
Extension Service.
County agents are now
Chester Co. PFA to
hold annual meeting
LIONVILLE - The
Chester County Penn
sylvania Farmers
Association will hold then
annual banquet on
Thursday, March 27.
The annual event will get
started at 7 p.m. and will be
held at the Hobday Inn at
Lionville
Joan Schmidt, the in
formation director for the
association, announced
Clifford Jones, Secretary of
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soybeans and provide a
‘nurse plot’ for parasite
rearing on their farms.
According to William F.
Gimpel, Jr., who is
spearheading the project for
MDA, “Mexican bean
bettles are the number one
insect pest of soybeans in
Maryland and the Mid-
Atlantic states. For several
years MDA and the Ex
tension Service have been
using bean beetle parasites
to combat the pest m
Maryland.
“1979 was a season m
which the cod, wet weather
was good for a buildup of
high populations of Mexican
bean beetle and we expect
potentially large numbers of
the pest in the 1980 season.
“Therefore, for 1980 we
the Department of En
vironmental Resources, will
be the mam speaker.
The cost of the banquet
will be $7.75 per person, and
advanced registrations
should be made by March 20.
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from Tom Wilkinson,
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any respective board
member.
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have planned a massive
demonstration project
employing several new
techniques to meet this
challenge and prove that the
parasites, if employed with
proper timing, numbers and
skillful management, can do
the job of holding bean beetle
populations in check and
thus prevent serious damage
to the crop and heavy yield
losses to soybean growers.
“Our efforts in Maryland
are part of a regional project
that will involve soybean
growers not only in
Maryland, but m Delaware,
New Jersey and Virginia as
we11...a1l states in which the"
Mexican bean beetle is the
major insect pest of
soybeans.
“Results of the demon
stration project will affect
decisions by APHIS whether
or not to release the
parasites m at least 11 other
states,” Mr. Gimpel said.
Here’s how the project
works on the farm: farmers
who plan to grow full season
soybeans this year contact
their county agricultural
extension agent and sign up
for the program.
They agree to allow a one
eighth acre ‘nurse plot’ to be
established on their farms
adjacent to soybean fields.
The nurse plot is planted
very early to snap beans
which attract the adult
Mexican bean beetles
coming out of hibernation.
Parasites are then
released to attack this first
infestation of bean beetles
and build up heavy
population levels. The large
population of new parasites
then spreads out in the
nearby soybean fields which
by that tune are subject to
attack by the second and
later generations of bean
beetles.
Thanks to large numbers
of parasites, the bean beetle
never get a chance to build
up to levels that will cause
heavy damage to the
valuable soybeans.
Farmers in Kent County
interested in the program
are asked to contact Agent
James Milliken (301/778-
1661); in Queen Anne’s
County, Agent Paul Gunther
301/758-0166; in Caroline
County, Agent Robert Rouse
(301/479-0990); in Talbot
County, Agent Donald
Osbum (301/822-1244) and in
Dorchester County, Agent
Ronald Wade 301/228^800.
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