Overall caseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab has been high over the last two weeks.  A summary of recent fruit crop insects reported to […]

Caseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab has started to decline over the last two weeks.  A summary of fruit crop pests recently submitted to […]

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 […]

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 […]

Apple maggots are emerging in Wisconsin orchards and will continue to do so for the next several weeks. Numbers are slowly increasing and growers should […]

Wisconsin Fruit News — Vol 3, Issue 5 (June 15, 2018) A new invasive fly – the African fig fly Insect Diagnostic Lab update Plant Disease Diagnostic […]

Across Wisconsin most regions have accumulated around 250 degree days (DD) since the start of the sustained codling moth flight, also known as biofix (late […]

Wisconsin Fruit News — Vol 2, Issue 4 (May 26, 2017) Soil-borne diseases of fruit crops: Introduction IPM: Monitoring pest populations and action thresholds Plant Disease Diagnostic […]

Wisconsin Fruit News — Vol 2, Issue 2 (April 28, 2017) Photo guide for disease ID on cold-climate grapes Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic update Insect Diagnostic Lab update […]