Cooperative Extension at Highmoor Farm

Click on photos to enlarge. David Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist; James Dill, Pest Management Specialist; Frank Drummond, Professor of Insect Ecology/Entomology Spotted wing drosophila trap captures have increased significantly at most locations over the past two weeks. (See table below.) All of the trapping sites are catching numbers that will result in significant […]

Click on photos to enlarge. David Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist; James Dill, Pest Management Specialist; Frank Drummond, Professor of Insect Ecology/Entomology Spotted wing drosophila activity continues to increase at most trapping sites this week. (See table below.) Most of the trap counts are above what we consider potentially damaging to ripening berry crops, […]

Click on photos to enlarge. David Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist; James Dill, Pest Management Specialist; Frank Drummond, Professor of Insect Ecology/Entomology There has been an increase in spotted wing drosophila activity at most trapping sites this week (see table below). Reports from throughout the northeast suggest a similar trend. This is significantly earlier […]

Click on photos to enlarge. David Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist; James Dill, Pest Management Specialist; Frank Drummond, Professor of Insect Ecology/Entomology We have found numerous spotted wing drosophila (SWD) fruit flies in raspberry and highbush blueberry plantings in Maine over the past week, in nearly every location that we have set up traps […]

Click on photo to enlarge. David Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist; James Dill, Pest Management Specialist; Frank Drummond, Professor of Insect Ecology/Entomology Warmer temperatures and some rain have resulted in an upsurge of spotted wing drosophila trap catches in some locations, while numbers continued a downward trend in others. Once the weather settles into […]