March 1, 2022

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Pest Management

Featured stories about pest management and more in this issue.

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Decay management a season-long effort

Spotted lanternfly finding more spots

Tree of heaven can’t wait

Hot thoughts on keeping grapes cool

Grower cooperative looks beyond concentrate

The redder the better

Defoliators have growers seeing red

A composite of more than 4,000 stacked photos shows in glorious detail a 5-millimeter female parasitic wasp, the Utetes lectoides, collected from a snowberry fly puparia. Early research on snowberry fly, a close cousin of apple maggot, suggests the parasitic wasp that targets it is adapting, along with changes in the apple maggot, and may lead to biological control of one of the apple industry’s most loathed pests. (Photo illustration courtesy James Strampher and Joshua Milnes/Washington State Department of Agriculture)

Big hopes for a very tiny wasp

Benjamin Keim, a young grower from Boyertown, Pennsylvania

Green light for biocontrol

Nematodes vs. SWD

Crush, cook, cover or compost?

From entomology to engineering

IPM ambitions

Spotted wing drosophila resistance: ‘It’s getting worrisome’

Good to Know: Integrated research

Northwest Horticultural Council welcomes new technical communications manager

Blueberry council launches Alexa “skill”

Washington Apple Education Foundation hires new executive director

New York set to lower overtime threshold to 40 hours