[hondaman]

Just wondering if anyone is seeing wheat midge numbers high enough to spray for in SE SK.. I just had a look tonight, didn't see any, but still a little windy out there.

 

[bjtjjl]

I am southwest of Moose Jaw. Have been out the last few nights, have seen some but not many. Agroligist says spray, but I'm not to sure.

What is everyone's method for finding them, what works best for you? I do the Pam and paper plate or just crouch down and watch for them, use flashlight as it gets darker.

To me, the 1 per 4 heads for yield damage or 1 per 10 heads for quality thresholds, shouldn't be hard to find if there is that many. I looking in durum I should mention.

 

[farmforlife]

I found if you look at dusk you usually won't find as many as you do at midnight.

 

[Duchek]

Neighbor said he saw a few tonight in our area, near Esterhazy, SK.

 

[460]

With the next few nights being cooler, around here anyways, may slow them down. They're not supposed to be out below 10 or above 20 celsius.
I like the crouch down at dark method, but am going to pay more attention to temperature as to when I will check. Also if I do find them close to the edge, I will usually walk in quite a ways and check. It seems they are always worse along the edges understandably if close to previous years wheat stubble. So sometimes if you move in a pass you won't find any.
It's so easy for the agrologist to help us spend our money isn't it.

 

[Ben Heide]

Have seen a few a couple nights ago. Not at threshold yet anyway, the majority of what I found was it's cousin species, the lauxinid. Most of my wheat will be past flowering here shortly.

 

[Snipe]

Can you mix your midge killer in with your fungicide or is timing wrong? I don't think you could see them here because of all the Mosquitos.

 

[dwh039]

Have been using a male midge trap. Has female pheromones inside a sticky paper tent looking contraption. The male are supposed to show before the females. From my understanding the females are the ones that do the most damage (naturally of course). My traps around melfort have been relatively clean. Supposedly north of melfort up by the river, the numbers have started to climb.

 

[hondaman]

Can you mix your midge killer in with your fungicide or is timing wrong? I don't think you could see them here because of all the Mosquitos.

Yes, midge timing and fusarium timing are the same, and chemicals are mixable.

 

[WD06]

Can you mix your midge killer in with your fungicide or is timing wrong? I don't think you could see them here because of all the Mosquitos.

Fusarium timing is a few days after normal midge timing I think, but we mix and apply at the same time anyway. No sense in tracking over the field twice and we've had pretty good luck with it.

So far in this area we've only seen a few, the thing I don't like about the crouch is that I don't know if I'm seeing the same five midge over and over again as they hop from plant to plant. And, how can you tell which ones are lauxinids and which are midge? How would you catch them?

 

[dwh039]

I've often wondered why they haven't come up with a number of midge for a specific amount of sweeps with a net. Would save time and money just to do ten sweeps, put in clear bag and count.

 

[bud]

Make sure you look at the tillers also. If there is any kind of breeze the midge wont come to the top of the canopy. They will hover around the shorter tillers.

 

[was1]

Also using male midge traps. Was told 9 or 10 in trap after 3 days its time to spray. We got 40 in one trap, 15 in the second and over 150 in the third. This was after only one day and night.Needless to say we are spraying. We are located aproxx 20 miles east of Regina.