The Prairie Pest Monitoring Network is a helpful resource for information on pests nationwide and is proudly sponsored by Manitoba Canola Grower in partnership with other organizations.

Blackleg is a serious disease of canola across all canola growing areas.

Clubroot is a serious soil-borne disease of cruciferous crops.

Verticillium Stripe, caused by Verticillium longisporum, is a soil-borne fungal disease, which primarily attacks canola and also other members of the family Brassicaceae.

Sclerotinia has become a yearly concern for most Manitoba canola growers.

Flea beetles are potentially the most common insect pest of canola crops, and first attack plants in the seedling to early vegetative stages when they are most vulnerable.

A common pest insect in canola, the diamondback moth adults blow in from the southern United States each spring and can cause varying amounts of feeding damage on green canola […]

The lygus bug has piercing-sucking mouthparts which cause physical damage to the plant through their nymph and adult stage by puncturing the tissue and sucking plant juices.

The larval stage of various cutworm species can cause damage to canola plants by feeding on the cotyledons, leaves, stems or under soil surfaces.

Cabbage seedpod weevil can cause considerable yield loss at the larval stage, and has continued to increase its distribution in the Prairies since being found in southern Alberta in 1995.

Weed control remains one of the most important mechanisms of yield loss in Western Canada.

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Residual weed population shifts in Manitoba from 1978 to 2022.