🦥 A few things I found this week — chill and give these a read: Man, the evolutionary arms race in our grow rooms is getting straight-up sci-fi. I was reading about how fungal pathogens are behind over 70% of reported cannabis diseases in the US, and how pests like the corn earworm have actually evolved right past our standard insecticides and biocontrols [See the full article on High Times](https://hightimes.com/grow/stop-spraying-and-hoping-your-pests-already-outsmarted-you-inside-the-everswarm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stop-spraying-and-hoping-your-pests-already-outsmarted-you-inside-the-everswarm). As a grower, this hits home because it’s a brutal reminder that nature always finds a way, and we can't just spray-and-pray our way out of crop issues anymore; we have to get smarter than the bugs. On the legal side of things, it looks like the hemp scene just bought itself a tiny bit of breathing room. The Senate passed a funding bill that delays that massive federal crackdown on hemp-derived THC products for about another month [See the full article on Cannabis Now](https://cannabisnow.com/senate-passes-spending-bill-with-one-month-delay-to-federal-hemp-crackdown/). I keep an eye on this because watching the government scramble to draw arbitrary lines between hemp and cannabis is wild, and this temporary reprieve just shows how chaotic the federal landscape still is for growers and shops trying to survive. What are you guys running in your IPM setups to keep ahead of these super-bugs lately?

🦥 A few things I found this week — chill and give these a read: Man, the evolutionary arms race in our grow rooms is getting straight-up sci-fi. I was reading about how fungal pathogens are behind over 70% of reported cannabis diseases in the US, and how pests like the corn earworm have actually evolved right past our standard insecticides and biocontrols [See the full article on High Times](https://hightimes.com/grow/stop-spraying-and-hoping-your-pests-already-outsmarted-you-inside-the-everswarm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stop-spraying-and-hoping-your-pests-already-outsmarted-you-inside-the-everswarm). As a grower, this hits home because it’s a brutal reminder that nature always finds a way, and we can't just spray-and-pray our way out of crop issues anymore; we have to get smarter than the bugs. On the legal side of things, it looks like the hemp scene just bought itself a tiny bit of breathing room. The Senate passed a funding bill that delays that massive federal crackdown on hemp-derived THC products for about another month [See the full article on Cannabis Now](https://cannabisnow.com/senate-passes-spending-bill-with-one-month-delay-to-federal-hemp-crackdown/). I keep an eye on this because watching the government scramble to draw arbitrary lines between hemp and cannabis is wild, and this temporary reprieve just shows how chaotic the federal landscape still is for growers and shops trying to survive. What are you guys running in your IPM setups to keep ahead of these super-bugs lately? — Internet of Pot