PEST PRESSURE
More generations, wider ranges.
Warmer winters, warmer summers, more heat units — every one of them tilts the pest ledger in the wrong direction. Here's what's moving crop by crop.
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The Agriculture workspace flags pest-pressure risk per field as part of the climate-fit score, with 20-year trajectory. Try it in the agriculture demo.
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Common questions
- Why does warming raise pest pressure?
- Insect generations track heat accumulation. Warmer summers push a second or third generation per season for many key pests; warmer winters raise overwintering survival. Together, this materially raises season-long pest pressure and expands the range of what used to be southern-only pests.
- Which pests are moving furthest north?
- Corn earworm, western bean cutworm, kudzu bug, southern rust of corn, and a range of stink-bug species have all moved materially north in the last two decades. Emerald ash borer and spotted lanternfly are non-crop but landscape-relevant.
- How is disease pressure changing?
- Warmer nights raise humidity, which favors many fungal diseases (tar spot in corn, downy mildew in grapes and cucurbits). Longer growing seasons give more time for inoculum buildup.
- What are the practical responses?
- Scouting on a GDD-based schedule, not a calendar one. Resistant hybrids and rootstocks where available. Integrated pest management with more-frequent thresholds. And climate-fit crop selection — sometimes the right answer is to grow something else.
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