By Pam Caraway
Delta Farm Press
If you think using enough water to thoroughly push insecticide into every nook and cranny of your crop is tough, try reaching burrowing insects with temperatures cold enough to freeze them into submission.
That’s a feat Mother Nature doesn’t quite accomplish more years than not in the lower South. And 2023 appears to be one of those years when the insects won. The seemingly bitter cold snaps in late 2022 and early this year didn’t provide freezing temperature low enough for long enough to kill substantial numbers of damaging insects in most parts of Louisiana and Mississippi.