{"id":337,"date":"2016-11-25T06:30:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T12:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/?p=337"},"modified":"2016-11-22T14:43:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T20:43:25","slug":"lygus-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2016\/11\/25\/lygus-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lygus bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been getting email and calls about small “stink bugs” on cruciferous crops lately. \u00a0I went out to our demonstration garden to see if I could rustle some up on what we have planted out there and I hit the jackpot. \u00a0I found Lygus bugs on the cabbage and some other plants (that I have no idea what they are…I went back out to look- they’re fava beans).<\/p>\n

Lygus bugs have a wide host range and have been found on over 350 plants. \u00a0These bugs commonly begin the year in weedy areas and then move into adjacent areas (leading them into gardens and landscapes) when the weed\"lygus\"<\/a>s begin to decline.<\/p>\n

Adults are about 1\/4 of an inch long and come in a variety of colors (the ones I’ve been seeing are brownish-black with red dots on the tip of the hemelytra). \u00a0They have whitish markings behind the head and on the wings. \u00a0The back half of the front wing is held downward at an angle (so it appears that the bug backed into a wall). \u00a0Nymphs look similar to the adults, but are usually a yellow-green in color and lack fully developed wings.<\/p>\n

Weed management is very important to help keep populations of tarnished plant bug in check. \u00a0Manage weeds to keep the bugs from colonizing areas adjacent to gardens and landscape areas. You can try vacuuming them up with a hand-held vacuum. Pesticides can be used to knock down heavy populations. \u00a0Look for active ingredients such as insecticidal soap, azadirachtin, pyrethrins, or pyrethroids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been getting email and calls about small “stink bugs” on cruciferous crops lately. \u00a0I went out to our demonstration garden to see if I could rustle some up on what we have planted out there and I hit the jackpot. \u00a0I found Lygus bugs on the cabbage and some other plants (that I have no idea what they are…I went back out to look- they’re fava beans). Lygus bugs have a wide host range and have been found on over 350 plants. \u00a0These bugs commonly begin the… Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[284,168,285,286,16,116],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-garden-pest","tag-insect","tag-lygus","tag-lygus-bug","tag-pest","tag-plant-bug"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLygus bugs - Urban IPM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2016\/11\/25\/lygus-bugs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lygus bugs - Urban IPM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I’ve been getting email and calls about small “stink bugs” on cruciferous crops lately. \u00a0I went out to our demonstration garden to see if I could rustle some up on what we have planted out there and I hit the jackpot. \u00a0I found Lygus bugs on the cabbage and some other plants (that I have no idea what they are…I went back out to look- they’re fava beans). Lygus bugs have a wide host range and have been found on over 350 plants. \u00a0These bugs commonly begin the... Read More →\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2016\/11\/25\/lygus-bugs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Urban IPM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-11-25T12:30:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/files\/2016\/11\/Lygus.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2272\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1753\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"wizzie.brown\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"wizzie.brown\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/25\\\/lygus-bugs\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/25\\\/lygus-bugs\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"wizzie.brown\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2d19ed89103801ec6311e2b7b44bd7c4\"},\"headline\":\"Lygus bugs\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-11-25T12:30:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/25\\\/lygus-bugs\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":259,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/25\\\/lygus-bugs\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/files\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/Lygus-300x231.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"garden pest\",\"insect\",\"Lygus\",\"Lygus bug\",\"pest\",\"plant bug\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/25\\\/lygus-bugs\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/25\\\/lygus-bugs\\\/\",\"name\":\"Lygus bugs - Urban IPM\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/25\\\/lygus-bugs\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/25\\\/lygus-bugs\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/files\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/Lygus-300x231.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-11-25T12:30:28+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2d19ed89103801ec6311e2b7b44bd7c4\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/25\\\/lygus-bugs\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/25\\\/lygus-bugs\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/25\\\/lygus-bugs\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/files\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/Lygus.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/files\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/Lygus.jpg\",\"width\":2272,\"height\":1753},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/2016\\\/11\\\/25\\\/lygus-bugs\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Lygus bugs\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/\",\"name\":\"Urban IPM\",\"description\":\"Teaching, Research, Extension and Service\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2d19ed89103801ec6311e2b7b44bd7c4\",\"name\":\"wizzie.brown\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/cd707fe48247bbf69e4131109fa25d6206fec29eabf818b79ae31adc42982235?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/cd707fe48247bbf69e4131109fa25d6206fec29eabf818b79ae31adc42982235?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/cd707fe48247bbf69e4131109fa25d6206fec29eabf818b79ae31adc42982235?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"wizzie.brown\"},\"description\":\"Wizzie Brown is an Extension Program Specialist- IPM with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/agrilife.org\\\/urban-ipm\\\/author\\\/wizzie-brown\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Lygus bugs - Urban IPM","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2016\/11\/25\/lygus-bugs\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Lygus bugs - Urban IPM","og_description":"I’ve been getting email and calls about small “stink bugs” on cruciferous crops lately. \u00a0I went out to our demonstration garden to see if I could rustle some up on what we have planted out there and I hit the jackpot. \u00a0I found Lygus bugs on the cabbage and some other plants (that I have no idea what they are…I went back out to look- they’re fava beans). Lygus bugs have a wide host range and have been found on over 350 plants. \u00a0These bugs commonly begin the... Read More →","og_url":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2016\/11\/25\/lygus-bugs\/","og_site_name":"Urban IPM","article_published_time":"2016-11-25T12:30:28+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2272,"height":1753,"url":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/files\/2016\/11\/Lygus.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"wizzie.brown","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"wizzie.brown","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2016\/11\/25\/lygus-bugs\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2016\/11\/25\/lygus-bugs\/"},"author":{"name":"wizzie.brown","@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/#\/schema\/person\/2d19ed89103801ec6311e2b7b44bd7c4"},"headline":"Lygus bugs","datePublished":"2016-11-25T12:30:28+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2016\/11\/25\/lygus-bugs\/"},"wordCount":259,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2016\/11\/25\/lygus-bugs\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/files\/2016\/11\/Lygus-300x231.jpg","keywords":["garden pest","insect","Lygus","Lygus bug","pest","plant bug"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2016\/11\/25\/lygus-bugs\/","url":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2016\/11\/25\/lygus-bugs\/","name":"Lygus bugs - Urban IPM","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2016\/11\/25\/lygus-bugs\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2016\/11\/25\/lygus-bugs\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/files\/2016\/11\/Lygus-300x231.jpg","datePublished":"2016-11-25T12:30:28+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/#\/schema\/person\/2d19ed89103801ec6311e2b7b44bd7c4"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2016\/11\/25\/lygus-bugs\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2016\/11\/25\/lygus-bugs\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2016\/11\/25\/lygus-bugs\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/files\/2016\/11\/Lygus.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/files\/2016\/11\/Lygus.jpg","width":2272,"height":1753},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/2016\/11\/25\/lygus-bugs\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lygus bugs"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/#website","url":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/","name":"Urban IPM","description":"Teaching, Research, Extension and Service","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/#\/schema\/person\/2d19ed89103801ec6311e2b7b44bd7c4","name":"wizzie.brown","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cd707fe48247bbf69e4131109fa25d6206fec29eabf818b79ae31adc42982235?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cd707fe48247bbf69e4131109fa25d6206fec29eabf818b79ae31adc42982235?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cd707fe48247bbf69e4131109fa25d6206fec29eabf818b79ae31adc42982235?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"wizzie.brown"},"description":"Wizzie Brown is an Extension Program Specialist- IPM with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.","sameAs":["https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/"],"url":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/author\/wizzie-brown\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/urban-ipm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}