{"id":12303,"date":"2011-08-20T03:13:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T08:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=12303"},"modified":"2011-08-20T13:38:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T18:38:51","slug":"soybean-aphids-found-in-vw-county-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/08\/20\/soybean-aphids-found-in-vw-county-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Soybean aphids found in VW county field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Signs of the soybean aphid have been found in Van Wert County and that\u2019s not good news for county soybean producers.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio State University Extension Agriculture Educator Curtis Young said he found aphids in local soybean fields recently while taking samples for Thursday\u2019s Extension open house at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center of Northwest Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the soybean fields that I visited had a more than an unacceptable population of soybean aphids already built up,\u201d Young said. \u201cAt this point, that would be a warning to all of our producers in the county that they need to start really looking at their soybean fields to determine whether the soybean aphid is present, and how much might be present if they do find it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12304\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12304\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12304 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Soybean-aphid-photo-8-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soybean aphids can damage fields and lower the amount and quality of soybean yields. (file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Young said checking for aphids now is \u201creally critical\u201d for soybean producers.<\/p>\n<p>The aphids tend to build up more heavily on late-planted fields, and most county soybean fields fit into that category this year because of the many days of rain that occurred during the planting season.<\/p>\n<p>Soybean aphids damage crops by sucking soybean plant sap, resulting in plants that are shorter, have fewer pods, smaller and lower quality seeds and produce smaller yields.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms of feeding damage may include stunted plants, leaves covered with \u201choney dew\u201d (a sticky substance secreted by aphids) and black, sooty mold on honey dew-coated leaves.<\/p>\n<p>The aphids can also transmit soybean viruses such as soybean mosaic virus and alfalfa mosaic virus.<\/p>\n<p>Soybean aphids are small (1\/16 of an inch), pear-shaped bright green to yellow insects with dark tips on the cornicles &#8212; two tube-like structures or \u201ctailpipes\u201d on the tip of the abdomen (see photo above). Soybean aphids may have wings or be wingless, or a combination of both during summer.<\/p>\n<p>Winged soybean aphids have a black head and thorax, with a green\/yellow abdomen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor Signs of the soybean aphid have been found in Van Wert County and that\u2019s not good news for county soybean producers. Ohio State University Extension Agriculture Educator Curtis Young said he found aphids in local soybean fields recently while taking samples for Thursday\u2019s Extension open house at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 10:16:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}