CANOLA QUIZ – Pods

How are the pods? While scouting this week, check pods for feeding damage, disease, seed colour change and more as the crop heads toward harvest. These four questions will help with scouting.

1. What is going on inside this pod?

Cabbage seedpod larvae hatched from inside seeds.

Hot and dry weather caused precocious germination.

Seeds popped open after heavy frost.

Aster yellows caused seed deformity

2. What disease caused this pod damage?

Alternaria black spot

Blackleg

Sclerotinia stem rot

Verticillium

3. What colour are the seeds inside these pods?

Brown

Green

4. What caused this pod damage?

Bertha armyworms

Birds

Grasshoppers

Slugs

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