How Will Biological Control Contribute?
A distance education short course was held on March 6, 2007, to provide an overview and update on soybean aphid research and efforts to enhance biological control of the pest. For everyone who did not attend, but is still interested in some aspects of the program, you can access the presentations from the North Central IPM Center Web site: http://www.ncipmc.org/teleconference/soybean2007/videos/ The following topics were discussed during the short course and are available as separate video: • History and biology of the soybean aphid – David Voegtlin, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois • Review of the situation with soybean aphids in the Midwest – David Ragsdale, University of Minnesota, St. Paul • Biological control of soybean aphids: What is it, and what do we have to work with in the Midwest – Bob O’Neil, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana • The players: Predators, parasitoids, and pathogens – Dan Mahr, University of Wisconsin, Madison; and, Kelley Tilmon, S
