There are reports of Swede midge in the north east. It hasn’t been a problem the last couple years, but it hasn’t disappeared. Check your spring canola and consider putting out traps if the canola was planted late and hasn’t bolted yet. #OntAg #canola

We're recruiting a graduate student (MS or PhD) to work on a new NSF-funded project on the evolution of seasonality in an invasive insect. Start between January and August, 2025. Here's a link to the position, and feel free to reach out with any questions! teetslab.com/wp-content/upl…

So wheat midge numbers are climbing in the Peace. if your wheat is at risk (boot crack to end of flowering) you might want to be out scouting your wheat for them. alberta.ca/wheat-midge-ov… agric.gov.ab.ca/app68/listings… Greg Sears

Had a great time PlantCanada conference. Congratulations to my lab members for receiving student awards.

🙏We are hiring, Please share🙏 Our lab in the Dept of Entomology at National Taiwan University is looking for motivated Postdocs/PhD students interested in plant-insect interactions (start date flexible). Plz contact [email protected] with your CV attached. Thanks😄

We have an open Post Doc position in plant-volatile interactions. Ideal if you love to use molecular tools to understand the natural world and improve agriculture. Excellent PhD in a relevant field is needed. Interested? Send your CV, grades, letter and refs to [email protected]

CBL’s first field day - an opportunity for us to showcase our current and future wheat varieties. Excitement among 100+ attendees was infectious despite hot scorching day!

Had a great time presenting our research at the UAlberta Faculty of ALES Field Day! Thanks RDAR (Results Driven Agriculture Research) for funding our research project. Huge thanks to Linda Gorim for leading the event 👏👏👏👏

Collected a bunch of wheat plants to bring back to the shade to slice open & guess what? #wheatstemsawfly #abbugchat

Seeing lygus in #canola? My colleague Jason Casselman from the Peace River area of Alberta recorded this video today. More on lygus bugs: canolacouncil.org/canola-watch/f…

I'm sharing this call for free herbicide resistance testing once more for anyone who would like to take advantage of this service during the 2024 growing season. More information can also be found here: grainswest.com/2024/07/tests-…

AGDATA conducts surveys to help gain a better understanding of how the products you buy are applied on farm, at what rates, and more. If you actively farm and are the decision maker, click the following link to register! agdatasurveys.sawtoothsoftware.com

What is happening in this canola pod?

If anyone is harvesting peas and seeing pea leaf weevil, we would be happy to come take some off your hands. Please let me know. Thanks #westcdnag

Is your #wheat lodged and when you look at the base of the plant, it's kinked with a flax-like insect pupa inside? That's Hessian fly. Thanks Lauren Wensley🌾 for the samples.

Well, it happened. Dutch Elm Disease has officially reached on of the last intact and largest collections of American Elms. #yeg #yegtrees #yeghisyory #yegcc #yeggardeb

Research Scientist, Entomology Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service - Great Lakes Forestry Centre Sault Ste. Marie (Ontario) Entomological Society of Canada emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/appl…

Im Needing wheat fields in Camrose, Minburn, Northern Lights, Barrhead, Vermilion River, Red Deer counties. i am hoping the push north of Hwy 1 starts nest week…