I’m in western North Carolina. There’s a species of bug we call a shield bug, which at certain times of the year teems and lots of them are found all over the place including the mailbox. I took some pictures and IDed them as shield bugs, but @tanker-aviator-naturalist , who lives nearby in South Car…

You may wish to see if they need to be reported to any agency. (Here in MX that species and others do , for the exact reason you state, that they affect agriculture.) You also could ask your local state agricultural offices how best to address them.

As Lucy said, you should look whether there is any official statement on what to do when finding one. Apart from that, some people say to kill any invasive organism you see, but personally, I am of the opinion that for these very well established species, killing would do little good. I just leave …

I brought up la Lista de plagas 2024, and there’s la chinche marmolada. I noticed another species, escoba de bruja de cacao, which literally means cacao witch’s broom. There’s a pine witch’s broom on the lot where I live, which IIRR is called fitoplasma de pinos in Spanish. But Phytoplasma is a bact…

“Watschn” looks like dialect, and Michael sounds like he’s speaking dialect. German is my fourth, and first non-native, language. (Spanish is my third, and I was an overhearer but now speak it pretty well. I count heritage languages as native, following Silvina Montrul.) That machine might be usefu…

[image] phma: Is there anything called witch’s broom in English and escoba de bruja in Spanish? This I would not know, as common names in English and Spanish vary from place to place. Thankfully there is only one scientific name for each species, and each scientific name means just the one sp…

You’re right. They speak with a Bavarian dialect Regarding your other question, I do not know, but my university’s botanical garden has a few traps on their Paulownias which I suspect are for H. halys. I would ask, but it’s probably gonna be a couple of months until they are out again…

That’s fine, it’ll be a few months here before the bugs are out in full force. I was wanting to get a good picture of one, but thought I’d have to wait till spring, and was not expecting to see one at chest/belly height on the doorframe of the bathroom at the end of November.

[image] phma: Is there anything called witch’s broom in English and escoba de bruja in Spanish? Yes, witch’s broom is the name for a deformity in tree twigs that causes a tight ball of twigs, most common in birch. And the 1968 book on British galls by Darlington says the witch’s broom can be …

To return to your original question, one thing that the government here does is prepare a packet of detailed information, called a ficha técnica for each of these agricultural threats, which includes informations about life cycles, hosts (like cacao), photos of instars (if applicable), etc. For exa…

Possibly. At least I know where Callahan Koon Road is.

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