Learn how to apply monitoring and sampling to protect your crops from SWD infestations. Watch this webinar! Monitoring and sampling tools to improve spotted-wing drosophila management. Presented on Wednesday, November 10th, 2022 this webinar is now available on YouTube.
In the Annual Sustainable SWD Management Webinar the project scientists cover trapping technologies, lures and baits, potential trap thresholds, best techniques to gauge fruit infestation, all investigated by the Sustainable SWD Management Project team.
This hour-long Monitoring and sampling tools to improve spotted-wing drosophila management, webinar can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWA57m9sCdY
Learn about the current guidelines for SWD adult and larval sampling methods and practical applications of these tools for fruit growers. Presenters include:
- Rufus Isaacs & Steve Van Timmeren (Michigan State University)
- Hannah Burrack (NC State University)
- Cesar Rodriguez-Saona (Rutgers University)
- Phil Fanning (University of Maine)
- Vaughn Walton (Oregon State University)
These SWD experts work on the SWD-susceptible crops you love to grow and sell: raspberry, highbush blueberry, lowbush blueberry, blackberry, and cherry.
Read and learn more about the Sustainable SWD Management Project here: https://swdmanagement.org/
The project team wants to share their work with you! Watch the webinar now.