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Unconventional Strategies for Aphid Management in Sorghum.

Ivan Grijalva¹, Qing Kang², Daniel Flippo³

¹Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA.

|July 26, 2024

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New sorghum aphid management strategies reduce insecticide use. Plant-specific spraying and random applications proved effective alternatives to traditional economic threshold-based spraying in field trials.

Keywords:

field crops insecticides integrated pest management sorghum sorghum aphid

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Area of Science:

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Background:

The sorghum aphid (Melanaphis sorghi) invasion causes significant crop damage and yield loss in the Great Plains.
Current pest management relies on field-level insecticide applications triggered by economic thresholds, often leading to overuse on non-infested plants.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate alternative sorghum aphid management strategies aimed at reducing insecticide usage.
To compare plant-specific and random spraying approaches against traditional economic threshold-based applications.

Main Methods:

Field replicate plots were used over two summer seasons to test different aphid management strategies.
Treatments included untreated control, traditional economic threshold spraying, random spraying, and plant-specific spraying.

Main Results:

All tested treatments resulted in fewer aphids compared to the untreated control.
The economic threshold treatment showed the lowest aphid numbers, followed by random and plant-specific treatments.

Conclusions:

Plant-specific and random spraying strategies can be effective alternatives to traditional methods for managing sorghum aphids.
These alternative strategies offer potential for reduced insecticide application in sorghum production.