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The article informs about three new golf course maintenance products: Durentis insecticide by FMC, Tri-Tool by PAR AIDE, and Featherweight UltraMax hose by UNDERHILL. Topic include these products offer solutions for pest control, green repairs, and turf-friendly irrigation respectively, catering to the needs of golf course superintendents.

The article informs about FMC's introduction of Durentis insecticide, following federal registration, which offers season-long protection against various chewing pests for superintendents. Topic include Durentis, containing chlorantraniliprole, requires only one application for season-long control and possesses systemic properties that facilitate upward translocation into turf, ensuring comprehensive pest management.

A study conducted at Nanjing Agricultural University in China has developed a gold nanoparticle-based lateral flow immunoassay (AuNP-LFIA) for detecting chlorantraniliprole (CAP), a type of insecticide used in agriculture. The AuNP-LFIA showed a visible limit of detection of 1.25 ng/mL and produced results in less than 10 minutes. The study also confirmed the accuracy and reliability of the AuNP-LFIA through comparison with spiked concentrations and verification by ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. This research provides the necessary reagents for CAP immunoassays and a method for detecting residual CAP in agricultural and environmental samples. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on identifying and controlling chinch bugs, particularly the hairy chinch bug, as a turf-killing pest. It emphasizes the importance of identification for superintendents to effectively manage chinch bug problems. It provides information on recognizing chinch bug damage, including its similarity to drought stress, and suggests a hands-on approach by pulling back the grass to inspect for small insects with a white X on their backs.

The article focuses on Syngenta's Acelepryn Xtra insecticide, which is now labeled for use on golf courses, offering improved pest control, a wider application window, and reduced application frequency compared to the original Acelepryn.

If you have questions about lesser cornstalk borer management or any other insect management issue in peanut, please contact your local UGA County Extension agent. Regardless of whatever else must be done on the farm in south Georgia over the next 14 days, one thing that needs to happen is scouting peanut fields for lesser cornstalk borer. Once peanut vines lap the row middles, irrigated fields that are watered adequately will rarely experience LCB populations above threshold. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on halfway between Austin and San Antonio, Vaaler Creek Golf Club's 100 acres of maintained turf is surrounded by live oaks, scrub grasses and other foliage native to the Texas Hill Country. Topics include the natural beauty can make Todd Leist's job a big pain in the neck, the lot of native grasses and trees where the armyworms can lay their eggs on the native plants, and the sudden, we get infestation moving in from those natives.

In this article, the author offers ways to control grubs in lawns by the use of various insecticides including imadaclorprid, chlorantraniliprole and dylox or carbaryl.