Now is the time to set up monitoring traps and sampling/sweeping protocols for the insects that may start  showing up in berries soon. Matt Hetherington […]

The following information is a brief summary of a presentation given by Jason Deveau (“Spray Guy”) on May 5, 2021 for the Cold Climate Grape […]

Caseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab has increased steadily over the last two weeks and is expected to continue to increase in the near […]

As we resume our scouting at the West Madison Research Station, we only noticed one instance of damage caused by the feeding of a flea […]

Caseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab remains low at this time, but has increased slightly over the last two weeks.  Insect activity is expected […]

Leafhoppers are common insects throughout the landscape and several species may be found in cranberry, including the blunt nosed leafhopper (BLNH, figure 1), the sharp-nosed […]

Looking forward to another growing season.  This spring started off with some pretty warm weather a couple of weeks ago and things started to move […]

Temperatures in the 70’s in early April helped jumpstart the accumulation of growing degree days for the year.  However, caseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic […]

With the growing season wrapping up in Wisconsin, caseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab has steadily decreased over the last two weeks.  A summary […]

As is typical this time of the year, caseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab has been declining with the dipping temperatures around the region.  […]