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Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 10:25 AM
Subject: Fw: border crops for beneficials in corn, soybean

 
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Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 10:15 AM
Subject: border crops for beneficials in corn, soybean

  It was found that predator numbers were higher when  corn and soybean fields were bordered by woodlots or a woodlot and a clover field.  Weeds such as velvetleaf and copperleaf (Acalyph asotryaefolia) increased populations of predators such as Orius insidiosus and Coleomegilla maculata (lady beetle that eats aphids and insect eggs).
 
Daniel Pavuk, Bowling Green State Univ., Bowling Green, OH)
 
IPM Practitioner, V. XXIV, $1, Jan. 2002

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