July 24, 2024

QUIZ – Stranger things

There are strange things found in the mid-day sun by the people who moil for golden crops of canola. (Inspired by poet Robert Service.)

Our eyes are drawn to strange insects and afflictions in canola fields this time of year.

Agronomy specialists found these things in canola fields this week.

1. What are these little orange things?

white mould midge
2. What are these things all over the raceme of this canola plant?

aphids on canola
3. What are these round brown things?

blackleg lesions
4. What things caused these holes?

Slug damage
5. What thing caused this white canola flower?

white canola flower
6. What is this thing in the red circle?

Canola flower midge
7. What thing damaged these canola pods?

heat damage

 

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