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5336518 
Journal Article 
Interaction of planting times following the incorporation of a living, green cover crop and control measures on seedcorn maggot populations in soybean 
Hammond, RB; Cooper, RL 
1993 
Yes 
Crop Protection
ISSN: 0261-2194 
12 
7 
539-543 
English 
BIOSIS COPYRIGHT: BIOL ABS. The impact of delaying soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) planting following the incorporation of a living, green cover crop and using various insecticide management practices on seedcorn maggot (Delia platura (Meigen)) populations was evaluated. Phorate soil insecticide in a 15.8 cm band and Agrox D-L Plus seed treatment (a mixture of diazinon (0.33% w/w), lindane (15.0% w/w), and captan (14.67% w/w)) were applied at planting immediately after, and 1.5 or 3 weeks after, cover crop incorporation that occurred in early May. Seedcorn maggots were sampled with adult emergence traps, and subsequent soybean injury to plumules were estimated. The number of days following tillage that soybean was planted had little effect on maggot numbers collected, but injury was lowest on soybean planted 3.5 weeks after incorporation of the cover crop. Thermal unit accumulations indicated that seedcorn maggot oviposition occurred at the time of tillage, and that the majority of insects were