Reports have come in that low to large levels of codling moth and moderate levels of apple maggot were caught in monitoring traps in the […]

Scouting at the West Madison Research Station (WMARS) vineyard occurred on 9/10/19 and there was no insect to report. No insecticide was applied on the […]

Fruit insect cases have decreased at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab (IDL) over the last two weeks with the cooler temperatures.  Reports of fruit crop […]

Scouting at the West Madison Research Station (WMARS) vineyard occurred on 8/26/19 which was a chilly and rainy day. Likely due to the weather, we […]

The caseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab (IDL) has decreased slightly over the last two weeks with more moderate weather patterns, but reports of […]

The caseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab (IDL) has remained high over the last two weeks.  Reports of fruit crop insect activity submitted to […]

The last DATCP Pest Bulletin of 6/20/19 reported that the first spotted wing drosophila flies (SWD; Figure 1) were detected in DATCP’s monitoring traps in […]

By: PJ Liesch, UW Insect Diagnostic Lab The caseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab (IDL) has been high over the last two weeks.  Reports […]

Spring is in the air and if you have not already done so, this is the time of year when you should be ordering traps […]

As grape berries near harvest, the main insect pests found in the vineyard are wasps and Multicolored Asian Lady Beetles (MALB). While scouting the vineyards […]