Can you tell beet armyworm eggs apart from navel orangeworm eggs?
In California, beet armyworm from nearby fields frequently lay eggs on almonds. The eggs look almost identical to those of navel orangeworm. But if you spray for beet armyworm, you’re wasting your money — it cannot feed on almonds and the hatching larvae quickly die. Scientific Methods advisors can distinguish the real pests from the non-pests. And we’ll tell you honestly which is which. • Sprayed for peach silver mite? Such is spray is virtually never needed. In fact, early season plant-feeding mites provide food for predatory mites, which can keep 2-spotted mites in check. Our growers attest to the value of the Scientific Methods mite monitoring program, which emphasizes long-term management over the short term reactionary sprays. • Does your pest advisor inspect row and tree crops? A jack-of-all trades may be a master of none. Scientific Methods works only on tree crops, well over 20,000 acres of them. The northern Sacramento Valley is our base of operations — where decades of nut
