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Published on Leave a comment on SWD SCRI Project – Webinar for Stakeholders February 12-13

The Sustainable SWD Management SCRI Project Team will be holding a virtual meeting on February 12-13, 2023 (Online via zoom). All stakeholders are invited to attend to hear research updates and provide feedback. This team has been collaborating on sustainable SWD management research and outreach for three years. The project is in its fourth and final year in 2024. Below is a detailed agenda and information to register. We hope you can join us!

FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING of the SWD SCRI PROJECT TEAM with the ADVISORY BOARD & STAKEHOLDERS
February 12-13, 2023 (Online via zoom)

Moving from crisis response to long-term integrated management of SWD: A keystone pest of fruit crops in the United States

USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Specialty Crop Research Initiative

Day 1: The SWD SCRI project team will provide updates on the research objectives for year three to the advisory board members and stakeholders. We will also hear from stakeholders and advisory board members on their experiences this year.

Day 2: The SWD SCRI project team will discuss projects and protocols for year 3. There will be an opportunity for stakeholders to provide feedback/input on previous protocols as well as upcoming planned protocols.

Registration link:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YwWk-iBvRsWFw6Y--ROVhA

Registration is unique to each participant and helps us capture valuable participation data. Each participant should register individually.  

For any new participants, the previous meeting can be viewed on the project website: Sustainable Spotted Wing Drosophila Management (swdmanagement.org)

This national team of scientists, with support from the USDA Specialty Crop Research Initiative, seeks to advance the development of sustainable, integrated management strategies for spotted wing drosophila, SWD, based on biology.

Published on Leave a comment on Sustained trap catch in Saratoga county

Sustained catch was reached in Saratoga county today June 30th. The trap is set in a blackberry planting, where the fruit are sizing up but are still green. There is a ripe raspberry block nearby to the trap.

1 male was trapped on a sticky trap, and 1 female was trapped in a drowning jar trap.

Many thanks to Natasha Field for servicing these traps!

Published on Leave a comment on First trap catches in Cayuga and Onondaga counties

Five female SWD were found in jar traps in ripe raspberries in Cayuga county. One male SWD was found on a sticky trap in ripening blueberries in Onondaga county. The update SWD distribution map can be found at: https://fruit.cornell.edu/spottedwing/distribution/.

Map of NY state showing where SWD has been found in 2022.

Published on Leave a comment on Sustained trap catch in Wayne county

We are now also at sustained trap catch in Wayne county. Trapping started early in Wayne, with a single male SWD trapped in a cherry block on May 10th. Then, over a month later, two female SWD were trapped there on June 21st, and another female SWD was trapped there on June 28th, bringing us to sustained trap catch.

Published on Leave a comment on Sustained trap catch in Suffolk county

Suffolk County reached sustained trap catch last week on June 23rd. The first SWD of the season, a total of 5 males and 4 females, were found in Suffolk county in a raspberry planting on June 16, 2022.  On June 23, another 6 males and 3 females were found in the same location. These were all captured in drowning jar traps; red sticky traps were not set out at this location this year.

Thanks to Faruque Zaman, CCE Suffolk, for servicing these traps!

Published on Leave a comment on First catch in Rensselaer County

Laura McDermott, ENYCHP found 1 male SWD in Amelanchier (Juneberries) on a red sticky trap. Females are too difficult to identify on the sticky traps, so only males are quantified in that trap type. The trap was checked on June 15th 2022. 

Rensselaer county is the seventh county in the state to catch a SWD this year.

Numbers remain very low in all counties (although creeping up in Orange Co), but stay on the alert!

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