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Caterpillars in Your Yard and Garden, Page 37
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Roseslug caterpillars (Endelomyia aethiops) are present in summer. They produce one generation per year.
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Boxelder Bug
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Home Fruit Production: Peach and Nectarine Culture
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Peach and nectarine trees require considerable care, so cultivars must be carefully selected. Get tips for growing these fruits — including how many trees to plant, how to train and prune them, and how much to water them — in this guide.
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Caterpillars in Your Yard and Garden, Page 05
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Banded woollybear caterpillars (Pyrrharctia isabella) are present in the spring and from late summer to late fall. They produce one to two generations per year.
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Caterpillars in Your Yard and Garden, Page 40
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Spicebush swallowtail caterpillars (Papilio troilus) are present from May to October. They produce two to three generations per year.
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Caterpillars in Your Yard and Garden, Page 08
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Catalpa sphinx caterpillars (Ceratomia catalpae) are present from early summer to early fall. They produce multiple generations per year.
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Caterpillars in Your Yard and Garden, Page 43
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Stinging rose caterpillars (Parasa indetermina) are present in summer and fall. They produce one to two generations per year.
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Caterpillars in Your Yard and Garden, Page 11
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Crinkled flannel moths caterpillars (Lagoa crispata) are present in summer and fall. They produce two generations per year.
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Reducing Losses When Feeding Hay to Beef Cattle
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Feeding hay to cattle is expensive, mostly due to waste. Learn good management practices to minimize the losses that occur due to poor storage methods, improper feeding methods, or both.
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Pelvic Measurements and Calving Difficulty
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Although researchers agree that birth weight is the most important measurable trait affecting calving difficulty, there is evidence that the size and shape of the pelvis also affect a heifer’s ability to calve.
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Liver Flukes in Missouri: Distribution, Impact on Cattle, Control and Treatment
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Cattle operations should evaluate their risk for is Fascioloides magna, also known as the deer fluke or the giant liver fluke. Learn about its distribution in Missouri, its life cycle, treatment and more in this guide.
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Missouri Farm Labor Guide
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Learn good human resource practices related to employee recruitment, hiring, onboarding, training and termination that your farm or agribusiness can use.
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Enlist Label Compliance: How to Determine Hydrologic Soil Groups
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Learn how to use the USDA Web Soil Survey interactive map to determine your field's hydrologic soil group for the soil series on which you plan to apply an Enlist herbicide.
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Quail-Friendly Plants of the Midwest, Page 11
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Often found in disturbed areas, crab grass tends to indicate early successional vegetation, and thus good quail habitat. However, late spring disturbance may result in a crab grass response heavy enough to displace other beneficial or desired plants.
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Quail-Friendly Plants of the Midwest, Page 43
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Common ragweed commonly grows to 18 inches. Leaves are simple, alternate, smooth and deeply lobed. Often the lobes are lobed again.
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Controlling Voles in Horticulture Plantings and Orchards in Missouri - Page 3
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Meadow voles and prairie voles spend most of their lives above ground, living in and feeding on grasses and seeds. They may travel as far as 1/4 mile in search of food and cover. Their typical habitat includes lightly grazed pastures, old fields and grassy areas, lawns and gardens.
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Quail-Friendly Plants of the Midwest, Page 14
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Eastern red cedar is a small to medium-sized tree up to 50 feet tall. It is an aromatic evergreen with a dense pyramid-shaped to cylindrical crown.
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Quail-Friendly Plants of the Midwest, Page 46
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Sensitive brier has prostrate stems and seedpods covered with hooked barbs. Doubly compound, featherlike leaves close rapidly when touched or disturbed. Flower clusters are a fuchsia ball dotted with contrasting yellow stamens.
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Quail-Friendly Plants of the Midwest, Page 17
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Flowering spurge may reach 3 feet tall on richer soils. Inflorescences are multibranched, with multiple flower heads per branch. Flowers have five white petals with a yellow center and average about one-third inch across.
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Quail-Friendly Plants of the Midwest, Page 49
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Annual smartweeds has abundant, swollen nodes where the leaf meets the stem. Leaves are simple, alternate and parallel-veined; most are lanceolate. Flower clusters are white or pink, and at maturity the plant yields large numbers of seeds.
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Quail-Friendly Plants of the Midwest, Page 52
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Switch grass exhibits an upright, bunchy growth form. The leaves twist in a corkscrew-like pattern from the base to the tip of the blade.
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Quail-Friendly Plants of the Midwest, Page 20
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Goat’s rue, a member of the bean family, is readily identified by its striking flower, which consists of a cream-colored upper petal above two bright pink lower petals. Leaves are alternate, compound and usually hairy, with a pointed, hairlike tip.
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Quail-Friendly Plants of the Midwest, Page 55
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Trailing lespedezas are small, native lespedezas with trailing stems that can readily form thick mats over bare areas if left undisturbed. The small flowers range from purple to white and can produce a large quantity of seeds.
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Quail-Friendly Plants of the Midwest, Page 23
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Hairy lespedeza leaflets occur in threes. This perennial plant earns its name from its stem and oblong leaflets, both of which are covered with hairs.