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BILLBUGS POSING NEW CHALLENGE IN ROW RICE



As more growers move to row rice, bill bugs may cause more damage.

Forrest Laws | Nov 22, 2021



Dr. Nick Bateman says billbugs are not a new pest in rice. Growers have seen
them in levee rice for years and on the levees or in rice patties they can’t
keep enough water on to keep them from drying out during the growing season.

What’s new is that many growers are trying furrow-irrigated or row rice where
portions of the field may remain dry as water moves across the field or out the
end of the field if a levee isn’t in place to retain the water.

“Once we moved into row rice production over the past five or six years, we’re
leaving the top end of the field fairly dry most of the season,” said Bateman,
Extension entomologist with the University of Arkansas System Division of
Agriculture. “It will get a little damp, but, for the most part, it never has a
standing flood on it.

“That’s opening a window for billbug to be able to move in and cause a lot of
damage. What we’ve seen over the past couple of years is, in a bad situation
like we’ve had in these plots, you can look for a 25- to 35-bushel loss at least
in the upper part of the field.”

Bateman and Chase Floyd, a Ph. D. candidate at the University of Arkansas, were
speakers during a presentation for the University’s virtual Rice and Soybean
Field Day. The presentation was recorded in University of Arkansas test plots at
Haigwood Farm near Newport, Ark.


MONITORING SYSTEM

“Since there isn’t a lot of data on rice billbug, we wanted to start
foundationally and figure out a good monitoring system for rice billbug,” said
Floyd. “One of our main goals was to determine how they’re migrating into the
field. We designed flight and ground active traps for the insects.”

Floyd said the data shows the ground active tests work best for collecting rice
billbug. “We used different colors to see if there was a color attractant. Pink
seems to be the best color, but we’re not 100 percent sure on that. We’re more
confident in that they just like to be under something safe.

“If you want to start monitoring for rice billbug, it appears the five-gallon
bucket is the best method. But you do need to have some sort of vegetation under
the bucket.”

Based on surveys over the last three years, the target growth stage for
monitoring for the pest is the third and fourth tillers for the rice. “We also
did a collection of traps based on the dates to monitor rice billbugs,” he said.
“Typically, we see our highest influx the last week in May to the first week in
June. About 10 to 14 days later is when you’ll go out into the field and start
seeing the damage.”

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