2025 was the sixth year in a row with a low number of wheat midge cocoons present in soil samples, potentially reducing ...

Only recently discovered, in 2017, soybean gall midge is a significant and fast-spreading new pest to Midwest growers. Significant yield reductions may occur, especially at the field edge where this ...

FARGO - Soil sample tests in North Dakota indicate a dramatic increase in levels of overwintering wheat midge larvae (cocoons) for the 2011 season, according to Janet Knodel, North Dakota State ...

THEIR PLEAS FOR HELP. THERE’S NO CLEAR ANSWER AS TO WHY THE MIDGES ARE SO BAD THIS YEAR. SOME BLAME THE HEAVY RAINS. OTHERS SAY THEY DIDN’T SPRAY EARLY ENOUGH IN THE SPRING. BUT WHATEVER THE REASON, ...

CLEVELAND — No, that’s not a plume of smoke rising from Lake Erie to signify the selection of the new Pope, that’s just a big cloud of bugs indicating that it’s officially midge season in Northeast ...

This tube of pastel colors is a midge larva. Midges are small flying insects that start off their lives as larvae that live in fresh water. This tube of pastel colors is a midge larva. Midges are ...