Weekly Update 2025
Released May 30, 2025 ( Week 4 )
Welcome to Week 4 for the 2025 growing season! This week includes:• Weather synopsis• Wireworms• Cutworms• Flea beetles• Alfalfa weevil• Cereal leaf beetle• Pea leaf weevil• Grasshopper diversity and scouting• Diamondback...
Weather synopsis ( Week 4 )
The weekly average temperature for May 19 – May 25, 2025, across the Prairies was 11 °C which is slightly warmer than the long-term average. Temperatures were warmest in northern Alberta and coolest in southeastern Saskatchewan, southwestern...
Active Wildfires and Air Quality ( Week 4 )
Active Wildfires - Natural Resources Canada's Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (CWFIS) creates and updates daily fire weather and fire behaviour maps year-round with hot spot maps updated daily between May and September. The website...
Wireworms ( Week 4 )
Wireworms are the larval stage of click beetles from the family Elateridae. Click beetles, the adult stage, do not cause damage to crops. Wireworms live in the soil, where it can take 4 or more years to complete larval development. In the soil,...
Cutworms ( Week 4 )
Cutworm scouting spans April to late June across the Canadian prairies! Scout fields that are “slow” to emerge, are missing rows, include wilting or yellowing plants, have bare patches, or appear highly attractive to birds – these are areas...
