A single female SWD was caught in a trap set on the edge of a raspberry planting in Essex County. The traps were checked on June 15, 2020. Fruit is starting to develop, but is still green and not susceptible to egg-laying. These traps are being monitored by Andy Galimberti and Elisabeth Hodgdon, Eastern NY Commercial Horticulture Program, Cornell Cooperative Extension.
So far, SWD has been caught in 8 of the 23 counties where traps are being monitored across NY State. No sustained catch, which is catch two weeks in a row, yet.
Brush up on SWD management, fruit.cornell.edu/spottedwing/management/ on Cornell Fruit Resources.
Learn more about SWD. Check out the information on Cornell Fruit Resources Spotted Wing Drosophila, fruit.cornell.edu/spottedwing/.