This is the last week that the scouts are checking fields for us this season, they begin two-a-days next week and will not be checking fields for us any longer.

Fleahoppers can still be found in quite a few fields throughout the area. In some fields there are zero CFH while others are at threshold. The problem becomes do you have enough time to set enough squares and bolls if you go ahead and treat these fields, and will the additional bolls pay for the treatment? These decisions must be made on a field-by-field case. Stinkbugs continue to increase in many areas. Quite a few of them are moving out of sorghum but they are also moving out of pastures as well. Blooming cotton needs to be checked for stinkbugs at this time.

In sorghum, I have found sugarcane aphid for the first time this year. Everything I have found has been in Glasscock and Reagan Counties to this point. Nothing has been at what I would consider treatable levels but I would definitely keep an eye on it, even older sorghum that is turning color. If the aphid levels get too high the honeydew can make harvest a train wreck. Headworm and stinkbug are out there and increasing. If spraying for headworm, I’d use something soft like Prevathon to prevent SCA from flaring up and conserve beneficials. For stinkbugs, Bidrin or the “hotter” pyrethroids like Karate, Mustang, or Baythroid will do a better job but will take out the benny’s so you will have to really watch for SCA flaring up.