Insects and mites

WSU-USDA Sunrise Research Farm Field Day on Sept. 23

August 18, 2026

Spotted lanternfly on a grapevine

Growers face spread of spotted lanternfly

July 28, 2026

WSU field day on July 31 to cover codling moth management

July 21, 2026

Loren Queen practices hand-dispersing beneficial insects in buckwheat hulls during a field day.

Lacewing field day focuses on release strategies

June 25, 2026

Check the fruit first to fight the flies

April 8, 2026

A female Andrena regularis, also known as the regular miner bee, visiting apple flowers at Cornell Orchards in Ithaca, New York. This ground-nesting native bee is an effective apple pollinator. (Courtesy Bryan Danforth/Cornell University)

Winning with home-team pollinators

March 25, 2026

Extensive codling moth damage in an unsprayed research block at Washington State University’s Sunrise Research Orchard last July. A partial drape netting treatment offered effective control of codling moth and allowed natural enemies to keep secondary pests, such as woolly apple aphids, in check. (Kate Prengaman/Good Fruit Grower)

Moth block, aphid access

March 12, 2026

Michigan State University entomologist Rufus Isaacs, seen here in a blueberry block at MSU’s Southwest Michigan Research and Extension Center in June 2022, is studying ways to combat spotted wing drosophila in Michigan blueberries. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Data for better spotted wing drosophila control

March 10, 2026

A Deraeocoris brevis nymph crawls across a leaf in August at the U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory in Wapato, Washington. The insect’s timing and appetite for pear psylla has made it an all-star predator in pear integrated pest management. (Ross Courtney/Good Fruit Grower)

Most Valuable Predator of pear pests

March 5, 2026

A field day participant tries to catch a whiff of garlic from cherries, blueberries and grapes treated with essential oils in May in The Dalles, Oregon. Consultants and researchers in the region believe garlic oil repels spotted wing drosophila enough to augment their management plans. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

Adjusting the IPM recipe

March 4, 2026