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Oct 9, 2024
The North Central IPM Center is hosting a *FREE* upcoming webinar focused on the Asiatic Garden Beetle (AGB). The webinar will be presented by our very own Dr. Kelley Tilmon! Dr. Tilmon will discuss how the Asiatic garden beetle has become a recent pest of midwest field crops, including corn and soybean. Tune in on October 16, 2024 at 1:30 PM (EST). The webinar will be hosted via Zoom.
To register for the webinar, click here: https://www.ncipmc.org/communications/webinars/
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Jul 17, 2024
Starting in early April, 15 Ohio counties monitored 17 soybean fields for slugs as part of a multi-state project funded by the United Soybean Board. The objective of the study is to help us better understand variation in slug pressure in our region.
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May 31, 2024
This year, the Tilmon Lab will be participating in a multi-state slug monitoring project funded by the United Soybean Board. The objective of this study is to better understand slug pressure in various states, including Ohio. Slugs are an increasingly concerning pest for Ohio growers, especially in no-till fields where cover crops are grown. Slugs feed directly on the soybean plant - causing direct damage and sometimes complete loss of the plant.
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May 30, 2024
Hi, I'm Maddie Brillhart. I just finished my first year at Heidelberg University studying Environmental Science and playing on the women's soccer team. I chose to work at the Tilmon lab because I wanted to continue to follow my passion for environmental science into the summer months. I love learning about new aspects of environmental science and how many career paths I could take in the future. I grew up on a small family farm, so agriculture has always been a huge part of my life.
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Apr 23, 2024
The Ohio Lep Monitoring Network has kicked off its third season of monitoring lepidopteran (moth) pests in agronomic crops. The network consists of 16 counties across Ohio that will be monitoring for black cutworm (BCW), true armyworm (AMW), corn earworm (CEW), Western bean cutworm (WBC), and fall armyworm (FAW) throughout the 2024 field season.
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Apr 2, 2024
Tilmon Lab undergraduate research assistants, Rebecca DiScipio and Stephanie Pflaum recently traveled to Ft. Collins, Colorado, to present their summer research project at the North Central Branch Entomological Society of America meeting. Rebecca and Stephanie, along with Kylie Harbert (undergraduate research assistant), Amy Raudenbush, Ryan Haden and Kelley Tilmon looked at cereal leaf beetle larvae feeding damage on 11 organic small grain crops.
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Feb 6, 2024
The 2024 field season is quickly approaching - and with that, certain decisions need to be made including which corn variety is best for you to plant this year. To help make this decision a little easier, Dr. Chris DiFonzo from Michigan State University has updated the Handy Bt Trait Table. This 2 page guide helps you identifity which Bt traits are available in each variety.
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Jan 16, 2024
The Tilmon Lab is looking to hire 2 - 3 motivated Student Assistants to help us with our summer research projects. In this position you will work hands on with agronomic crops and pests in Ohio. Students can work up to 38 hours a week, Monday - Friday.
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Jan 11, 2024
Our 2023 summer student assistants, Rebecca DiScipio, Kylie Harbert and Stephanie Pflaum were given the opportunity to collaborate with Dr. Ryan Haden (OSU ATI) on a research trial in organic small grains. The objective of this research was to determine if there was a difference in the number of larvae and plant damage in 11 different varieties of organic small grains.
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Dec 6, 2023
A pocket field guide for the Asiatic garden beetle, written by Chris DiFonzo (MSU), Adrian Pekarcik (USDA-ARS), Kelley Tilmon (OSU) and Amy Raudenbush (OSU), is now available on our website. The Asiatic garden beetle (AGB) was first detected in the United States in 1921 in New Jersey, and has since spread to the Great Lakes region. In 2007, field crops growers in northern Indiana, southern Michigan and northern Ohio starting noticing stand loss - the culprit? AGB grubs.
In this guide, you will learn:
- how to identify AGB adults and grubs
