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Table 2.1-3. Key times for alfalfa insect activity.
Table 2.1-3. Key times for alfalfa insect activity.
| Attacks new seedlings |
| Emergence to first cutting: |
| Potato leafhopper |
Slugs |
| Black cutworm |
Garden symphylan |
| Variegated cutworm |
|
| Second cutting: |
| Potato leafhopper |
Pea aphid |
| Grasshoppers |
Plant bug spp. |
| Spotted alfalfa aphid |
|
| Attacks established stands and fall seedings |
| First cutting: |
| Alfalfa weevil |
|
| Second through fourth cuttings: |
| Potato leafhopper |
Alfalfa blotch leafminer |
| Pea aphid |
Variegated cutworm |
| Spittlebug |
Clover leaf weevil |
| Clover root curculio |
Grasshoppers |
| Plant bug spp. |
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