Cooperative Extension at Highmoor Farm

David Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist; James Dill, Pest Management Specialist; Phil Fanning, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology; Christina Howard, Maine New Farmers Project Manager Spotted wing drosophila fruit fly numbers have increased significantly at some of the sights we are monitoring with vinegar/yeast traps in raspberries and highbush blueberries this week (see table […]

David Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist; James Dill, Pest Management Specialist; Phil Fanning, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology; Christina Howard, Maine New Farmers Project Manager Spotted wing drosophila fruit flies are now being caught in traps we have set up in strawberry and raspberry fields in southern Maine (see table below). Drosophila larvae have […]

Last Issue of the 2025 Season David Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist; James Dill, Pest Management Specialist; Phil Fanning, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology; Christina Howard, Maine New Farmers Project Manager We have retired all of the trapping locations for our spotted wing drosophila monitoring program over the past two weeks. The numbers reported […]

David Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist; James Dill, Pest Management Specialist; Phil Fanning, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology; Christina Howard, Maine New Farmers Project Manager Spotted wing drosophila fruit fly trap counts remain fairly stable and moderate at this time. Sites that are no longer spraying because harvest is complete are seeing higher numbers […]

David Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist; James Dill, Pest Management Specialist; Phil Fanning, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology; Christina Howard, Maine New Farmers Project Manager Spotted wing drosophila fruit fly trap counts were little changed from last week. Sites that are no longer spraying because harvest is complete are seeing higher numbers than sites […]

David Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist; James Dill, Pest Management Specialist; Phil Fanning, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology; Christina Howard, Maine New Farmers Project Manager Spotted wing drosophila fruit fly numbers are rising at all sites this week. Some of the increase may be due to growers no longer spraying because they have finished […]

David Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist; James Dill, Pest Management Specialist; Phil Fanning, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology; Christina Howard, Maine New Farmers Project Manager Spotted wing drosophila fruit fly numbers are rising at most of our trapping sites this week, although the increases are relatively moderate for this point in the season (see […]

David Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist; James Dill, Pest Management Specialist; Phil Fanning, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology; Christina Howard, Maine New Farmers Project Manager Spotted wing drosophila fruit fly numbers remained relatively stable at our trapping sites this week with no big increases or decreases (see table below). Continued hot, dry conditions and […]

David Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist; James Dill, Pest Management Specialist; Phil Fanning, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology; Christina Howard, Maine New Farmers Project Manager Spotted wing drosophila fruit fly numbers continue to increase at our trapping sites this week (see table below). Populations are over the recommended spray threshold (4/trap/week) at all sites. […]

David Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist; James Dill, Pest Management Specialist; Phil Fanning, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology; Christina Howard, Maine New Farmers Project Manager Spotted wing drosophila fruit fly numbers have increased at most our trapping sites in Southern Maine this week (see table below). Populations are over the recommended spray threshold (4/ […]