S.E. Bartholomew
@phytopoetry.bsky.social
Plant and pest poetry. The Undergrowth interviews. YouTube http://bit.ly/3jZ4dm1 for videos. Views on this site do not reflect Iowa State University.
Reposted by S.E. Bartholomew
🍂 Today's haiku:
wind moves through bare limbs -
leaf-rust echoes underfoot,
a season unspooled
🎨 Inspired by Dead Leaves (1891) by Kuroda Seiki.
#Haiku #Poetry #BlueSkyPoets
wind moves through bare limbs -
leaf-rust echoes underfoot,
a season unspooled
🎨 Inspired by Dead Leaves (1891) by Kuroda Seiki.
#Haiku #Poetry #BlueSkyPoets
March 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
🍂 Today's haiku:
wind moves through bare limbs -
leaf-rust echoes underfoot,
a season unspooled
🎨 Inspired by Dead Leaves (1891) by Kuroda Seiki.
#Haiku #Poetry #BlueSkyPoets
wind moves through bare limbs -
leaf-rust echoes underfoot,
a season unspooled
🎨 Inspired by Dead Leaves (1891) by Kuroda Seiki.
#Haiku #Poetry #BlueSkyPoets
Reposted by S.E. Bartholomew
Knotty, knotty nematodes
Nibbling on cucumber toes.
Severe in sand, weeds lend a hand
Rotation may not go as planned!
If it’s dry, roots will cry
As RKN makes them die.
Leaves turn yellow, plants don’t grow
If there are galls how do you know?
Sample soil when crops are out
Get a lab to make a count!
Nibbling on cucumber toes.
Severe in sand, weeds lend a hand
Rotation may not go as planned!
If it’s dry, roots will cry
As RKN makes them die.
Leaves turn yellow, plants don’t grow
If there are galls how do you know?
Sample soil when crops are out
Get a lab to make a count!
NEMATODE MONDAY: Southern Root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) damage on cucumber. Plants showing mild nutritional deficiency symptoms & stunted growth. Swelling (galls) visible on root system disrupted by nematode feeding. Poor weed control too! 🧪 #Nematode
March 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Knotty, knotty nematodes
Nibbling on cucumber toes.
Severe in sand, weeds lend a hand
Rotation may not go as planned!
If it’s dry, roots will cry
As RKN makes them die.
Leaves turn yellow, plants don’t grow
If there are galls how do you know?
Sample soil when crops are out
Get a lab to make a count!
Nibbling on cucumber toes.
Severe in sand, weeds lend a hand
Rotation may not go as planned!
If it’s dry, roots will cry
As RKN makes them die.
Leaves turn yellow, plants don’t grow
If there are galls how do you know?
Sample soil when crops are out
Get a lab to make a count!
Reposted by S.E. Bartholomew
Smokey Bear has a brother Jake
He lives in a cave at the edge of a lake
He's not known like his famous relation
But he plays a part in our nation
Jake Bear doesn't care about smoke
But he gets angry if one rule is broke
That's if campers don't do as they should
And spread pests when moving firewood
He lives in a cave at the edge of a lake
He's not known like his famous relation
But he plays a part in our nation
Jake Bear doesn't care about smoke
But he gets angry if one rule is broke
That's if campers don't do as they should
And spread pests when moving firewood
January 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Smokey Bear has a brother Jake
He lives in a cave at the edge of a lake
He's not known like his famous relation
But he plays a part in our nation
Jake Bear doesn't care about smoke
But he gets angry if one rule is broke
That's if campers don't do as they should
And spread pests when moving firewood
He lives in a cave at the edge of a lake
He's not known like his famous relation
But he plays a part in our nation
Jake Bear doesn't care about smoke
But he gets angry if one rule is broke
That's if campers don't do as they should
And spread pests when moving firewood
Reposted by S.E. Bartholomew
Corn rootworm says:
I like it where the corn don’t stop,
Years may change, but not the crop!
Cutting roots and dropping stalks,
This bug thinks resistance rocks!
I eat and eat and now I’m full,
The Bt trait has lost control!
Please don’t tell my farmer friend,
If he finds out, the feast might end!
I like it where the corn don’t stop,
Years may change, but not the crop!
Cutting roots and dropping stalks,
This bug thinks resistance rocks!
I eat and eat and now I’m full,
The Bt trait has lost control!
Please don’t tell my farmer friend,
If he finds out, the feast might end!
NEW Handy Bt Trait Table for 2025 at texasinsects.org/bt-corn-trai....
From @tamu.bsky.social and @michiganstateu.bsky.social Extension.
@entsocamerica.bsky.social @asa-cssa-sssa.bsky.social @corteva.bsky.social
From @tamu.bsky.social and @michiganstateu.bsky.social Extension.
@entsocamerica.bsky.social @asa-cssa-sssa.bsky.social @corteva.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Corn rootworm says:
I like it where the corn don’t stop,
Years may change, but not the crop!
Cutting roots and dropping stalks,
This bug thinks resistance rocks!
I eat and eat and now I’m full,
The Bt trait has lost control!
Please don’t tell my farmer friend,
If he finds out, the feast might end!
I like it where the corn don’t stop,
Years may change, but not the crop!
Cutting roots and dropping stalks,
This bug thinks resistance rocks!
I eat and eat and now I’m full,
The Bt trait has lost control!
Please don’t tell my farmer friend,
If he finds out, the feast might end!
Knotty, knotty nematodes
Nibbling on cucumber toes.
Severe in sand, weeds lend a hand
Rotation may not go as planned!
If it’s dry, roots will cry
As RKN makes them die.
Leaves turn yellow, plants don’t grow
If there are galls how do you know?
Sample soil when crops are out
Get a lab to make a count!
Nibbling on cucumber toes.
Severe in sand, weeds lend a hand
Rotation may not go as planned!
If it’s dry, roots will cry
As RKN makes them die.
Leaves turn yellow, plants don’t grow
If there are galls how do you know?
Sample soil when crops are out
Get a lab to make a count!
NEMATODE MONDAY: Southern Root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) damage on cucumber. Plants showing mild nutritional deficiency symptoms & stunted growth. Swelling (galls) visible on root system disrupted by nematode feeding. Poor weed control too! 🧪 #Nematode
March 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Knotty, knotty nematodes
Nibbling on cucumber toes.
Severe in sand, weeds lend a hand
Rotation may not go as planned!
If it’s dry, roots will cry
As RKN makes them die.
Leaves turn yellow, plants don’t grow
If there are galls how do you know?
Sample soil when crops are out
Get a lab to make a count!
Nibbling on cucumber toes.
Severe in sand, weeds lend a hand
Rotation may not go as planned!
If it’s dry, roots will cry
As RKN makes them die.
Leaves turn yellow, plants don’t grow
If there are galls how do you know?
Sample soil when crops are out
Get a lab to make a count!
Reposted by S.E. Bartholomew
Corn rootworm says:
I like it where the corn don’t stop,
Years may change, but not the crop!
Cutting roots and dropping stalks,
This bug thinks resistance rocks!
I eat and eat and now I’m full,
The Bt trait has lost control!
Please don’t tell my farmer friend,
If he finds out, the feast might end!
I like it where the corn don’t stop,
Years may change, but not the crop!
Cutting roots and dropping stalks,
This bug thinks resistance rocks!
I eat and eat and now I’m full,
The Bt trait has lost control!
Please don’t tell my farmer friend,
If he finds out, the feast might end!
"...data from 10 US Corn Belt states indicate that [Bt corn] hybrids...exhibited declining protection from rootworm feeding with increased planting while pest pressures simultaneously decreased."
Read more at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... with @science.org.
@entsocamerica.bsky.social 🧪 #sceince
Read more at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... with @science.org.
@entsocamerica.bsky.social 🧪 #sceince
Too much of a good thing: Lessons from compromised rootworm Bt maize in the US Corn Belt
Widespread use of genetically engineered maize targeting the corn rootworm complex (Diabrotica species) has raised concerns about insect resistance. Twelve years of university field trial and farm sur...
www.science.org
March 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Corn rootworm says:
I like it where the corn don’t stop,
Years may change, but not the crop!
Cutting roots and dropping stalks,
This bug thinks resistance rocks!
I eat and eat and now I’m full,
The Bt trait has lost control!
Please don’t tell my farmer friend,
If he finds out, the feast might end!
I like it where the corn don’t stop,
Years may change, but not the crop!
Cutting roots and dropping stalks,
This bug thinks resistance rocks!
I eat and eat and now I’m full,
The Bt trait has lost control!
Please don’t tell my farmer friend,
If he finds out, the feast might end!
Corn rootworm says:
I like it where the corn don’t stop,
Years may change, but not the crop!
Cutting roots and dropping stalks,
This bug thinks resistance rocks!
I eat and eat and now I’m full,
The Bt trait has lost control!
Please don’t tell my farmer friend,
If he finds out, the feast might end!
I like it where the corn don’t stop,
Years may change, but not the crop!
Cutting roots and dropping stalks,
This bug thinks resistance rocks!
I eat and eat and now I’m full,
The Bt trait has lost control!
Please don’t tell my farmer friend,
If he finds out, the feast might end!
"...data from 10 US Corn Belt states indicate that [Bt corn] hybrids...exhibited declining protection from rootworm feeding with increased planting while pest pressures simultaneously decreased."
Read more at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... with @science.org.
@entsocamerica.bsky.social 🧪 #sceince
Read more at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... with @science.org.
@entsocamerica.bsky.social 🧪 #sceince
Too much of a good thing: Lessons from compromised rootworm Bt maize in the US Corn Belt
Widespread use of genetically engineered maize targeting the corn rootworm complex (Diabrotica species) has raised concerns about insect resistance. Twelve years of university field trial and farm sur...
www.science.org
March 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Corn rootworm says:
I like it where the corn don’t stop,
Years may change, but not the crop!
Cutting roots and dropping stalks,
This bug thinks resistance rocks!
I eat and eat and now I’m full,
The Bt trait has lost control!
Please don’t tell my farmer friend,
If he finds out, the feast might end!
I like it where the corn don’t stop,
Years may change, but not the crop!
Cutting roots and dropping stalks,
This bug thinks resistance rocks!
I eat and eat and now I’m full,
The Bt trait has lost control!
Please don’t tell my farmer friend,
If he finds out, the feast might end!
Corn rootworm says:
I like it where the corn don’t stop,
Years may change, but not the crop!
Cutting roots and dropping stalks,
This bug thinks resistance rocks!
I eat and eat and now I’m full,
The Bt trait has lost control!
Please don’t tell my farmer friend,
If he finds out, the feast might end!
I like it where the corn don’t stop,
Years may change, but not the crop!
Cutting roots and dropping stalks,
This bug thinks resistance rocks!
I eat and eat and now I’m full,
The Bt trait has lost control!
Please don’t tell my farmer friend,
If he finds out, the feast might end!
NEW Handy Bt Trait Table for 2025 at texasinsects.org/bt-corn-trai....
From @tamu.bsky.social and @michiganstateu.bsky.social Extension.
@entsocamerica.bsky.social @asa-cssa-sssa.bsky.social @corteva.bsky.social
From @tamu.bsky.social and @michiganstateu.bsky.social Extension.
@entsocamerica.bsky.social @asa-cssa-sssa.bsky.social @corteva.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Corn rootworm says:
I like it where the corn don’t stop,
Years may change, but not the crop!
Cutting roots and dropping stalks,
This bug thinks resistance rocks!
I eat and eat and now I’m full,
The Bt trait has lost control!
Please don’t tell my farmer friend,
If he finds out, the feast might end!
I like it where the corn don’t stop,
Years may change, but not the crop!
Cutting roots and dropping stalks,
This bug thinks resistance rocks!
I eat and eat and now I’m full,
The Bt trait has lost control!
Please don’t tell my farmer friend,
If he finds out, the feast might end!
Reposted by S.E. Bartholomew
Twas the night before tar spot when all thru the field
Not a creature was stirring to reduce corn yield
Ears were all growing their kernels with care
In hopes the combine soon would be there
The silks were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of pollen grains danced in their heads...
Not a creature was stirring to reduce corn yield
Ears were all growing their kernels with care
In hopes the combine soon would be there
The silks were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of pollen grains danced in their heads...
Catch Professor Dean Malvick and PhD candidate José Solórzano @solorzanoje.bsky.social on SDSU's upcoming Corn Tar Spot management webinar: agupdate.com/tristateneig...
Webinar to discuss economic return of using fungicide to fight corn tar spot
Tar spot is a potentially yield-impacting corn disease that was confirmed in 46 of South Dakota’s 66 counties in 2024. The fungus can cling to crop residue over the winter
agupdate.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Twas the night before tar spot when all thru the field
Not a creature was stirring to reduce corn yield
Ears were all growing their kernels with care
In hopes the combine soon would be there
The silks were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of pollen grains danced in their heads...
Not a creature was stirring to reduce corn yield
Ears were all growing their kernels with care
In hopes the combine soon would be there
The silks were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of pollen grains danced in their heads...
Twas the night before tar spot when all thru the field
Not a creature was stirring to reduce corn yield
Ears were all growing their kernels with care
In hopes the combine soon would be there
The silks were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of pollen grains danced in their heads...
Not a creature was stirring to reduce corn yield
Ears were all growing their kernels with care
In hopes the combine soon would be there
The silks were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of pollen grains danced in their heads...
Catch Professor Dean Malvick and PhD candidate José Solórzano @solorzanoje.bsky.social on SDSU's upcoming Corn Tar Spot management webinar: agupdate.com/tristateneig...
Webinar to discuss economic return of using fungicide to fight corn tar spot
Tar spot is a potentially yield-impacting corn disease that was confirmed in 46 of South Dakota’s 66 counties in 2024. The fungus can cling to crop residue over the winter
agupdate.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Twas the night before tar spot when all thru the field
Not a creature was stirring to reduce corn yield
Ears were all growing their kernels with care
In hopes the combine soon would be there
The silks were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of pollen grains danced in their heads...
Not a creature was stirring to reduce corn yield
Ears were all growing their kernels with care
In hopes the combine soon would be there
The silks were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of pollen grains danced in their heads...
Watermelons, pumpkins and broccoli too
Sometimes get vegetable flu
Leaves turn colors and start to look sick
While viruses spread and bacteria drip
Beans, tators and peppers too
Sometimes are eaten by an insect brood
Leaves are devoured and get holey
By larvae with guts looking like guacamole
Sometimes get vegetable flu
Leaves turn colors and start to look sick
While viruses spread and bacteria drip
Beans, tators and peppers too
Sometimes are eaten by an insect brood
Leaves are devoured and get holey
By larvae with guts looking like guacamole
Symptoms of Watermelon mosaic virus (WMV) causes a mosaic color of dark & light green to yellow patches on leaf. Leaf distortion is common in new growth. Symptoms vary by virus concentration, timing of infection & environmental conditions. WMV is spread by aphids. Managing the disease is difficult 🧪
February 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Watermelons, pumpkins and broccoli too
Sometimes get vegetable flu
Leaves turn colors and start to look sick
While viruses spread and bacteria drip
Beans, tators and peppers too
Sometimes are eaten by an insect brood
Leaves are devoured and get holey
By larvae with guts looking like guacamole
Sometimes get vegetable flu
Leaves turn colors and start to look sick
While viruses spread and bacteria drip
Beans, tators and peppers too
Sometimes are eaten by an insect brood
Leaves are devoured and get holey
By larvae with guts looking like guacamole
Reposted by S.E. Bartholomew
I had a nice crop of milk-weedy stuff,
With pods full of floating white soft seedy fluff.
I was a proud Asclepius plant daddy,
‘Cuz my milkweed didn’t look chewed and ratty.
Until these striped larvae started acting so bad,
Eating my milkweed and making me sad.
ISU Monarchs: monarch.ent.iastate.edu
With pods full of floating white soft seedy fluff.
I was a proud Asclepius plant daddy,
‘Cuz my milkweed didn’t look chewed and ratty.
Until these striped larvae started acting so bad,
Eating my milkweed and making me sad.
ISU Monarchs: monarch.ent.iastate.edu
February 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I had a nice crop of milk-weedy stuff,
With pods full of floating white soft seedy fluff.
I was a proud Asclepius plant daddy,
‘Cuz my milkweed didn’t look chewed and ratty.
Until these striped larvae started acting so bad,
Eating my milkweed and making me sad.
ISU Monarchs: monarch.ent.iastate.edu
With pods full of floating white soft seedy fluff.
I was a proud Asclepius plant daddy,
‘Cuz my milkweed didn’t look chewed and ratty.
Until these striped larvae started acting so bad,
Eating my milkweed and making me sad.
ISU Monarchs: monarch.ent.iastate.edu
I had a nice crop of milk-weedy stuff,
With pods full of floating white soft seedy fluff.
I was a proud Asclepius plant daddy,
‘Cuz my milkweed didn’t look chewed and ratty.
Until these striped larvae started acting so bad,
Eating my milkweed and making me sad.
ISU Monarchs: monarch.ent.iastate.edu
With pods full of floating white soft seedy fluff.
I was a proud Asclepius plant daddy,
‘Cuz my milkweed didn’t look chewed and ratty.
Until these striped larvae started acting so bad,
Eating my milkweed and making me sad.
ISU Monarchs: monarch.ent.iastate.edu
February 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I had a nice crop of milk-weedy stuff,
With pods full of floating white soft seedy fluff.
I was a proud Asclepius plant daddy,
‘Cuz my milkweed didn’t look chewed and ratty.
Until these striped larvae started acting so bad,
Eating my milkweed and making me sad.
ISU Monarchs: monarch.ent.iastate.edu
With pods full of floating white soft seedy fluff.
I was a proud Asclepius plant daddy,
‘Cuz my milkweed didn’t look chewed and ratty.
Until these striped larvae started acting so bad,
Eating my milkweed and making me sad.
ISU Monarchs: monarch.ent.iastate.edu
Biscuits and gravy! Holy guacamole!
Weeds grow fast but crops so slowly.
A weed is a ruthless and space-stealing dude,
It hogs all the water and gobbles plant food.
Golly and crud and son of a gun!
Shucks and dagnabbit, weeds sure aren’t fun!
Weeds grow fast but crops so slowly.
A weed is a ruthless and space-stealing dude,
It hogs all the water and gobbles plant food.
Golly and crud and son of a gun!
Shucks and dagnabbit, weeds sure aren’t fun!
February 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Biscuits and gravy! Holy guacamole!
Weeds grow fast but crops so slowly.
A weed is a ruthless and space-stealing dude,
It hogs all the water and gobbles plant food.
Golly and crud and son of a gun!
Shucks and dagnabbit, weeds sure aren’t fun!
Weeds grow fast but crops so slowly.
A weed is a ruthless and space-stealing dude,
It hogs all the water and gobbles plant food.
Golly and crud and son of a gun!
Shucks and dagnabbit, weeds sure aren’t fun!
Crazy top creates upside down mops
Cursing the field with a flock of mohawks
Thin strappy leaves and short internodes
Leave corn ugly like grandpappy toads
Turning tassels to terrible twirls
And garrulous growths of gross green swirls.
Cursing the field with a flock of mohawks
Thin strappy leaves and short internodes
Leave corn ugly like grandpappy toads
Turning tassels to terrible twirls
And garrulous growths of gross green swirls.
CRAZY TOP of corn is caused by the fungus Sclerophthora macrospora. The pathogen causes excessive tillering & twisting of upper leaves. The tassel resembles a mass of leafy structures referred to as ‘crazy top’. The disease typically occurs in low-lying areas of a field #Corn 🧪
February 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Crazy top creates upside down mops
Cursing the field with a flock of mohawks
Thin strappy leaves and short internodes
Leave corn ugly like grandpappy toads
Turning tassels to terrible twirls
And garrulous growths of gross green swirls.
Cursing the field with a flock of mohawks
Thin strappy leaves and short internodes
Leave corn ugly like grandpappy toads
Turning tassels to terrible twirls
And garrulous growths of gross green swirls.
Under the wide and dusky sky
Plant the seed and let it lie
Glad did it grow and gladly die
And the stems were buried by till
This be the verse you grave for me
Here he farms where he longed to be
Home is the farmer, home from the field
And the pickup home from the road
@alabamaed1.bsky.social
Plant the seed and let it lie
Glad did it grow and gladly die
And the stems were buried by till
This be the verse you grave for me
Here he farms where he longed to be
Home is the farmer, home from the field
And the pickup home from the road
@alabamaed1.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Under the wide and dusky sky
Plant the seed and let it lie
Glad did it grow and gladly die
And the stems were buried by till
This be the verse you grave for me
Here he farms where he longed to be
Home is the farmer, home from the field
And the pickup home from the road
@alabamaed1.bsky.social
Plant the seed and let it lie
Glad did it grow and gladly die
And the stems were buried by till
This be the verse you grave for me
Here he farms where he longed to be
Home is the farmer, home from the field
And the pickup home from the road
@alabamaed1.bsky.social
Smokey Bear has a brother Jake
He lives in a cave at the edge of a lake
He's not known like his famous relation
But he plays a part in our nation
Jake Bear doesn't care about smoke
But he gets angry if one rule is broke
That's if campers don't do as they should
And spread pests when moving firewood
He lives in a cave at the edge of a lake
He's not known like his famous relation
But he plays a part in our nation
Jake Bear doesn't care about smoke
But he gets angry if one rule is broke
That's if campers don't do as they should
And spread pests when moving firewood
January 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Smokey Bear has a brother Jake
He lives in a cave at the edge of a lake
He's not known like his famous relation
But he plays a part in our nation
Jake Bear doesn't care about smoke
But he gets angry if one rule is broke
That's if campers don't do as they should
And spread pests when moving firewood
He lives in a cave at the edge of a lake
He's not known like his famous relation
But he plays a part in our nation
Jake Bear doesn't care about smoke
But he gets angry if one rule is broke
That's if campers don't do as they should
And spread pests when moving firewood