A single female SWD was caught in one of four yeast-baited apple cider vinegar traps checked on July 8, 2014 and set in a summer raspberry planting in Cayuga County by Juliet Carroll, NYS IPM Program. Fruit is ripe and nearing the end of harvest. Because at this time the SWD population is very low, if no other susceptible fruit is nearby and ripe, it may prove judicious to hold off on an insecticide management program. Consider creative approaches to sanitation in U-pick plantings such as providing a discount on purchased fruit when the customer brings in an extra bucket of damaged and over-ripe fruit to the counter. Keep track of fruit ripening in other berry crops and plan to protect these with insecticides in the coming weeks. (Accumulated GDD 1124; day length 15:05)
