Source: AgriLife Today
A minuscule pest few Texas farmers had ever heard of three years ago has quickly gained notoriety as the most important insect pest of grain and forage sorghum in Texas, said an expert entomologist.
The pest is the sugarcane aphid, and it’s already been found infesting sorghum in the lower Rio Grande Valley and lower Gulf Coast this year, said Dr. Allen Knutson, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service entomologist at Dallas. As in past years, the sugarcane aphid is expected to move into Central Texas and eventually the Texas High Plains, potentially infesting all of Texas’ sorghum-producing regions by late summer.
The sugarcane aphid distribution map can be accessed at https://www.myfields.info.
For more information on sugarcane aphid, see the AgriLife Extension websites http://txscan.blogspot.com/ and http://betteryield.agrilife.org/.
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