Please admire this fungal culture. It’s a new species so it has no real name yet but it’s lovely nonetheless.

An In-Depth Evaluation of Powdery Mildew Hosts Reveals One of the World’s Most Common and Widespread Groups of Fungal Plant Pathogens | Plant Disease apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PD…

Neopestalotiopsis leaf spot, a fungal disease, plus spider mite feeding damage on strawberry. Mites use piercing-sucking mouthparts to feed on the underside of leaves producing white or yellow spots & giving leaves a stippled appearance #Mites #Insects #Fungi

Not all #CoverCrops are terminated prior to #planting the next crop! Watch @NCsoybeans producer Philip Sloop #PlantingGreen directly into the growing rye in North Carolina! This rye was drilled in mid-Oct for a #research trial funded by IowaSoybeans and the #SoybeanCheckoff !

Juniper broom rust in all its glory. Gymnosporangium nidus-avis with telia emerging directly out of all the branches on the witches' broom. Alternate host is serviceberry.

Mayhaw infected with cedar-quince rust. The fruit has white tube-like projections (aecia) about 2-3 mm long filled with rust-colored aeciospores. Spores are wind dispersed to infect cedar/juniper hosts to continue the disease (life) cycle #Rust #Plantdisease #Fungi

When dealing with tree fruit diseases day in and day out…you need to have a sense of humor 🍎 Quince rust on apple (fungal disease)

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Spider mites showing up on melons

Here is an another great Crop Protection Network (CPN) publication which will help identify/manage soybean seedling diseases & look-a-likes (seed trt, herbicides, etc) this spring! Visit CropProtectionNetwork.org for other great resources. You won’t be disappointed! #Ontag Grain Farmers of Ontario #plant24

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📸 via Ed Sikora

Ed Sikora Most likely a saprophage nematode -- a Rhabditida. They dine on the dead.

NEMATODE MONDAY: Free living nematode collected off roots of dying strawberry. Possible general ID from actual Nematologist Lawrence Perepolkin would be helpful. Strawberry dying from Rhizoctonia root rot, plus other factors. Nematode offered energetic dance moves #Nematode #Nematology

#ESN2024
Who is this nematode?

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Butterflies are Free Saturday: Who can identify this butterfly to species? #Butterfly #Insect #Lepidoptera

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FYI. Postemergence Soybean Herbicide Options extension.psu.edu/postemergence-…