Name That Pest: Do You Know This Winged Menace?

The latest Midwest research on sustainable vegetable production and crop innovations shaping agriculture’s future.

Researchers receive $325,00 grant from USDA to develop a new biopesticide for the invasive spotted wing drosophila.

‘Devastating’ spotted wing drosophila pest draws crowds of beneficial wasps.

Multiple reports of the invasive pest around fields in Central Florida stand out as earlier than normal.

USDA says new low-pressure vacuum technology called RipeLocker is breakthrough in fruit storage.

More than a decade in the making, scientists are set to release a tiny wasp that controls a highly destructive fruit fly.

SWD and mites can’t resist the perfect growing conditions.

As Pacific Northwest researchers march toward long-term management, wild parasitoids have already arrived in Washington state.

Michigan State researchers provide plenty to grow on in regard to vaunted foe in the field.

Pam Marrone, one of the industry’s best known leaders, will deliver the keynote speech, explaining why the industry is taking off and primed for more growth.

The parasitoid wasp, a natural enemy of the berry-eating fly, was found last month in Washington near the Canadian border.

Good news for berry growers as unique pest control formulation is thus far effective at very low rates and relatively shorter periods of time.

Trials indicate the mulches not only reduce the pest populations, but also might increase yields to boot.

Industry survey results reveal the yays and nays on spray.

What’s in store for the sector in 2020? Noted researchers John R. Clark and Lisa DeVetter weigh in.

Players behind international research project aim to find novel ways to ground pests like spotted wing drosophila and Mediterranean fruit fly.

Wisconsin berries are barely making it with the winged pest on the fly, but scientists are looking at new ways to defend from ground level.

Growers have been frustrated at having their integrated pest management plans thwarted by this destructive pest, but researchers still have faith.

Spotted wing drosophila takes Southwest Indiana grower by surprise as Midwest’s unseasonably cool, wet spring doesn’t delay pest’s arrival.