Please visit the Spotted Wing Drosophila Blog for this important season wrap-up.
For ten years, Dr. Carroll has been leading trapping and tracking a major berry pest with the help of funders and collaborators. That’s a lot of opportunity to improve Fruit IPM against this tiny fruit fly!
Here, we reiterate her appreciation for the network of researchers working alongside to accomplish this:
These 15 Cornell University extension scientists participated in SWD monitoring this year in 23 counties. A special thanks go out to them for setting traps, changing lures, servicing traps, and identifying SWD. This network would not be possible without their support and contributions — suggestions for improvement, ideas for mapping, perspectives on grower needs and steadfast cooperation.
- Andy Galimberti, Eastern NY Commercial Hort Program
- Ariel Kirk, Steuben County CCE
- Barb Neal, Tioga County CCE
- Dave Thorp, Livingston County
- Don Gasiewicz, Wyoming County CCE
- Elisabeth Hodgdon, Eastern NY Commercial Hort Program
- Elizabeth Tee, Lake Ontario Fruit Program
- Faruque Zaman, Suffolk County CCE
- Janet van Zoeren, Lake Ontario Fruit Program
- Jim O’Connell, Ulster County CCE
- Juliet Carroll, NYS IPM Program
- Laura McDermott, Eastern NY Commercial Hort Program
- Liz Alexander, Chemung County CCE
- Natasha Field, Eastern NY Commercial Hort Program
- Sarah Tobin, Eastern NY Commercial Hort Program
Most importantly, we acknowledge the support of our funding partners:
- NYS Berry Growers Association
- NYS IPM Program
- USDA NIFA CPPM EIP Award 2017-70006-27142