Vince Jones developed the Decision-Aid System to help growers with pest management. Timing is everything in pest management. Say you’re sampling for leafrollers. If you go out looking for them in your orchard at a time when they’re very tiny and almost impossible to see, you might conclude you don’t have any and move on to another block or job. Two weeks later, you might be facing leafroller damage and think the leafrollers moved into the orchard from outside, when it was really just a case of looking for them at the wrong time. Washington State University entomologist Dr. Vince […]