by kbonen@esiagconsulting.com | Sep 6, 2019 | Insects
Not everything that makes you jump is scary. When you are sitting in your living room relaxing on your couch and something small and black crawls above you on the ceiling, then drops to the floor and skitters away, what do you do? If you are my husband or sister, you...
by kbonen@esiagconsulting.com | Jul 25, 2019 | Insects
WHAT IS THAT???!!?!?! That thought has crossed my mind as I scout crops, when I accompany my son fishing, and as I walk outside along my favorite trail. I have received that question from producers after I’ve been in their fields. (And, frankly, insects have always...
by kbonen@esiagconsulting.com | Jun 12, 2019 | Crop Diseases, Imposters, Physoderma Brown Spot, Phytophthora Root Rot, Purple Leaf Sheath, Soybean Gall Midge
Have you ever seen something that was actually something else? Or, rather, have you ever thought you saw something, but it actually was something else? Not necessarily as extreme as the whole Baby-Ruth-in-the-swimming-pool drama (what movie was that anyway?), but in...
by kbonen@esiagconsulting.com | May 11, 2019 | Chemical Resistance, Crop Disease, Fungicide Resistance, Herbicide Resistance, Insecticide, Insects, Pesticides, Superbug, Weeds
In Chemical Resistance Part One we discussed how misusing chemicals can create “superbugs” by creating a chemical memory that critters pass to their next generation (what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger; nothing in science is 100%). In Chemical Resistance Part Two...
by kbonen@esiagconsulting.com | Apr 17, 2019 | Chemical Resistance, disease resistance, Superbug
In Chemical Resistance Part One: HOW? we established that misuse of a chemical intended to fight off a disease can lead to chemically resistant “critters”, or superbugs. I use the word critter to describe any pest that can cause a need for pesticide: be it bacteria,...
