As the strawberry growing season progresses, it is essential for berry growers to remain vigilant against pests such as thrips, tarnished plant bugs (TPB), and […]

Thrips tend to move into plantings on early spring wind storms from Southern states and can cause significant damage to June-bearing strawberry. In early summer […]

Thrips continue to be present in the day-neutral organic strawberry planting at the West Madison Agricultural Station, with numbers that have been pretty stable in […]

Eastern flower thrips (ETF; Fig 1) have been reported at one of our strawberry research sites in Dane county. As mentioned in our last issue […]

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 […]

Wisconsin Fruit News — Vol 3, Supplemental 3 – SWD, thrips, and apple thinning (June 8, 2018) First detection of spotted wing drosophila in Wisconsin for 2018 […]

Wisconsin Fruit News — Vol 2, Issue 3 (May 12, 2017) Promalin, a frost rescue alternative for apples Home Fruit Cultivars for Southern Wisconsin – updated publication […]