SWD traps are being set out across NY in berry plantings by Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) personnel for the 2014 monitoring season. Trap catch results from the following counties will be reporting to the NY distribution map: Albany, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung, Clinton, Columbia, Dutchess, Erie, Herkimer, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Onondaga, Ontario, Orange, Orleans, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schuyler, Seneca, St. Lawrence, Steuben, Suffolk, Tompkins, Ulster, Washington, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates.
Statewide monitoring wouldn't be possible without the cooperation of all involved: Ginny Carlberg and Betsy Burgeson, Chautauqua County CCE; Jabe Warren, Chemung County CCE; Amy Ivy and Lindsey Pashow, Clinton County CCE; Sharon Bachman, Erie County CCE; Bernie Armata, Herkimer County CCE; Dave Thorp, Livingston County CCE; Paul Hetzler, St. Lawrence County CCE; Stephanie Mehlenbacher, Steuben County CCE; Faruque Zaman, Suffolk County CCE; Emily Cook, Ulster County CCE; Don Gasiewicz, Wyoming County CCE; Laura McDermott, Cara Fraver, Jim O'Connell, and Dan Donohue, Eastern NY Horticulture Program; Deborah Breth and Liz Tee, Lake Ontario Fruit Program; Peter Jentsch and Tim Lampasona, Entomology, Hudson Valley Lab; Greg Loeb and his lab group, Entomology, NYS Ag Experiment Station; and Juliet Carroll, NYS IPM Program, CCE.
Many of us participated in a SWD Workshop, held in May 2014, to hone our skills at identifying these tiny, destructive fruit flies. On hand to teach us the finer points of identifying female and male SWD and many other fruit fly look-alikes were Greg Loeb, Professor of Entomology, and members of his lab, Steve Hesler, Anna Wallingford, and Johanna Elsensohn, and John Jaenike, Professor of Biology and Drosophila expert, University of Rochester.
