NDSU Extension Sugarbeet Entomologist Mark Boetel advises beet growers to scout for sugarbeet root maggot fly later this week. Sugarbeet root maggot peak fly is running about a week ahead of average. “It’s a fairly good likelihood that we’re gonna see a lot of flies, potentially peaking by Friday or so,” said Boetel. “This is kind of an unusual year for that for degree day accumulations; we had that real heat wave in mid-May and that got things going.”
