The Prairie Pest Monitoring Network is now into its 20th year.It was created to provide timely information on insect pests that are a problem year after year.Meghan Vankosky is a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Saskatoon.
She says they go out to the fields and conduct surveys and send that information out to agronomists and producers to give them an idea when they need to be scouting for.
"It gives metrological data, weather data, how much precipitation across the prairies, wind trajectory information which is important for certain insect pests that blow up from the United States like aphids and diamondback moths, we also have links to all of our monitoring protocols," Vankosky said.
She says updates are sent out to producers on a regular basis.
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