ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

D0042 Impact of cover crops on sweet potato insects

Monday, November 14, 2011
Exhibit Hall 3, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Arun Babu , Biochemistry, Mol. Biol., Entomology & Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
Fred Musser , Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology, and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS
Jack T. Reed , Biochemistry, Mol. Biol., Entomology & Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
Ramon A. Arancibia , Nmrec, Mississippi State University, Pontotoc, MS
Cover crops are an important component of many sustainable/organic crop production systems. During 2010 and 2011 we studied the impact of different cover crops on population dynamics of beneficial and pest insects in Sweet potato fields. Sweet potatoes plots following different cover crops were monitored throughout the crop season for beneficial insects and pest using wireworm, pitfall traps and sweep net sampling. At harvest 100 sweet potatoes from each treatment were inspected for insect damage.

doi: 10.1603/ICE.2016.58930

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