Pest Control
Insect development and growing degree days are also used by some farmers and horticulturalists to time their use of organic or biological pest control or other pest control methods so they are applying the procedure or treatment at the point that the pest is most vulnerable. For example:
- Black cutworm larvae have grown large enough to start causing economic damage at 165 GDD
- Azalea Lace Bug emerges at about 130 GDD
- Boxwood leaf miner emerges at about 250 GDD
Read more about this topic: Growing-degree Day
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