With kudzu bug populations this season, growers need to focus their efforts on the other soybean pests, including the corn earworm/tobacco budworm, stink bugs and defoliators.

The cold winter has prompted farmers to ask what the influence of these temperatures might be on insect and slug populations. Hard winters will knock back some pest species, but it's difficult to generalize, and the influence of cold winter temperatures on the majority of crop pests is not very predictable.