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Show A12 Vernal Express Wednesday, April 9, 2003 Education hotline tor parents Parents desiring answers to questions about their childrens education, may call the National Principals Hotline during April. Callers will speak directly, but anonymously, with a school principal or school psychologist. April 13, 14 and 15 the National Association of Elementary School Principals holds its 14th annual hotline. This is a once a year, toll free phone and email service in English and Spanish for anyone with a question to ask about schools, children and education. Approximately 150 school principals will staff the phones and computer terminals while they are attending the NAESP annual convention. Their purpose is to ease difficulties and encourage constructive communication between schools and families. Family members who are curious, troubled, or simply need some reassurance regarding their child's education may speak confidentially with a principal or get specialized advice from a school psychologist. Spanish translators will be avail able. The hotline averages more than 1,000 calls each year, with callers asking about a variety of topics. For Utah, the hours are Sunday, April 13, 8 p.m.; Monday, April 14, 8 a.m. 8 p.m.; and Tuesday, April 15, 8 a.m.-- 2 p.m. e The call may be made to 2-- toll-fre- Eastern Utah is plagued with an unusually high hatching of the army cutworm. Homeowners and farmers are finding large numbers of the black to brownish green caterpillars feeding on plants and crops. This little piggy's phone has Army cutworms plague Uintah county The army cutworms marching through Duchesne County are also causing problems in Uintah County. According to Boyd Kitchen, USU Extension Agent, they're called army cutworms because ol their habit ol marching from place to place in search ol something to eat. The worms are thick throughout eastern Utah and western Colorado. We have some of these cutworms hut Kitchen reports, every year, this year the populations ate especially high. Conditions must have been ideal last fall lor the moths to lay eggs and lot the eggs to hatch. and honieownets are Banners being pestered by the cutworms. Homeowners, especially those who live out ol town, have had hordes of the insects crawling on, in or around their homes. Kitchen recommends spraying a ten to fifteen foot battier around yards. A two week protection will lie achieved around homes by using sprays that contain pcnnctluin or esfenvalerale as the active ingredient. The army cutworm is the black to brownish green caterpillar of the miller moth. With only one generation per year, the egg hatches in the fall and spends the winter as a partially grown caterpillar, feeding during warmer winter days on a wide range of plants. This is a climbing cutworm that leeds above ground during the night and on cloudy days. After larval development is complete, it pupates in the soil. Moths emerge in May or June and migrate to the mountains to escape the summer heat.' Moths return to the valleys in late summer and early fall to lay eggs in crop fields. Army cutworm damage occurs in times of economic stress they cant afford to spray chemicals if they're not really needed either. Not every field will have cutworms, so monitoring is critical in deciding where pesticides are needed. The best time to scout for the worms is on a cloudy evening when they will be feeding above ground. However, cutworms can be found anytime by scratching around alfalfa crowns or at the base of small grains. Spraying insecticides is justified if two or more cutworms are found per square foot in seedling alfalfa or in thin winter grain stands. If four to five cutworms are found in established alfalfa or in healthy grain stands, chemical control is justified. If possible, spray in the evening to improve control. The pyrethroid insecticides as a group have been the most effective. These include Pounce, Ambush and Warrior. Formulations of Lorsban and Sevin are also labeled for this purpose. Kitchen cautions care in following of label instructions when applying any pesticide. Kitchen is also concerned about another insect that could plague residents of the Uintah Basin this Crickets. Now is the time they should be hatching. He asks anyone who secs Mormon Crickets to report them to the USU Extension office at year--Morm- 781-545- Calling 3-rJ- oy late winter and early spring mainly to alfalfa and winter grains. 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