Harvest is now underway in some locations for some cultivars and there are a number of insects that you should think about as they can […]

After years of comments and deliberations, chlorpyrifos will no longer be available for use after 2021. This means that chlorpyrifos will not be allowed on […]

As is typical for this time of the year, caseload has remained high at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab over the last two weeks.  A […]

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

As we are begin to see veraison on some grape varieties, social wasps are starting to show up at some vineyards we visited last week. […]

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

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

Thank you very much to everyone who sent in surveys this year. We had a slow start, and we heard reports that pollinators were also […]

Red-headed flea beetle (aka cranberry flea beetle; Systena frontalis) adults (Fig 1) started showing up at some marshes in the second week of July. It […]

Black stem borer (BSB) BSB, Xylosandrus germanus, also known as the alnus ambrosia beetle, is an invasive beetle from Asia accidentally introduced into central Europe […]