Month: March 2022

• Weekly Field Update – 3/7/22

  

  Coming up this week we have the in-person Midlands Vegetable Meeting, Upstate Apple and Peach Meeting, and virtual Peach meeting. Don’t forget to check out the rest of our lineup of winter/spring meetings here. Be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom to see this week’s Question of the Week and check back…

  Justin Ballew

  March 7, 2022

  Weekly Field Updates

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• Question of the Week – Parasitoid Wasp

  

  This week, the question was: Why is there a hole in the rear of this bloated-looking aphid? This aphid was parasitized by a tiny parasitic wasp. An egg was laid in the aphid by an adult female wasp using its ovipositor (stinger). Once the egg hatched, the wasp larva developed within the aphid, feeding on…

  Justin Ballew

  March 3, 2022

  Question of the Week

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