This detection survey will gather data to determine the status of the Australian grapevine yellows, cotton cutworm, bud borer and alfalfa cyst nematode.  Survey activities will occur at least monthly at each site during April through September.  Traps to be utilized are bucket traps and large plastic delta traps.

There will be seventy-one sites in twenty-eight counties surveyed.  Counties to be surveyed: Barton, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hamilton, Jewell, Kearney, Lincoln, Marion, McPherson, Mitchell, Norton, Ottawa, Pawnee, Phillips, Pottawatomie, Rawlins, Reno, Republic, Rice, Saline, Sedgwick, Smith, Stafford, Washington. Funded by the United States Department of Agriculture.

Brown marmorated stink bug is a relatively recently established invasive pest in Kansas. First identified in Kansas in 2011. Subsequently, brown marmorated stink bug has steadily spread in eastern Kansas.

Brown marmorated stink bug is a polyphagous stink bug that is particularly injurious to fruits and has already begun to cause economic damage to orchards in eastern Kansas, especially in organic operations. Additionally, brown marmorated stink bug can become a nuisance to homes due to their tendency to aggregate in homes and structures in winter.

Kansas Department of Agriculture has been conducting an annual survey for brown marmorated stink bug since 2018 using species-specific pheromone baited traps.

This survey is looking for callery pear infestations outside of landscape plantings in southeastern Kansas. This project was started in April of 2020 but was postponed due to pandemic concerns.  It will resume spring 2021.  Funded by through the cooperation of the Kansas Department of Forestry.

KDA is currently trapping for emerald ash borer using trap trees. Trees are girdled in non-infested counties adjacent to infested counties in the spring, and subsequently dropped and bark peeled in fall to look for larvae.