Spotted Wing Drosophila

We have (finally) reached first trap catch in Niagara county, with 1 male and 11 females trapped in a cherry orchard and 1 male and 3 females trapped in a blueberry planting. Both traps were jar drowning traps, and both plantings contained ripe fruits. Thank you to Liz Tee for monitoring those traps!

We are now at first trap catch in all of the counties in the monitoring network.

We also reached sustained trap catch in Orleans county today with SWD trapped in each of a cherry, black raspberry, and blueberry planting.

We are now at sustained trap catch in all the eastern NY counties.

We reached sustained catch in Clinton county on July 11th, with 7 males and 2 females trapped in drowning jar traps and 3 males trapped on sticky traps.

We also reached sustained catch in Saratoga County on July 12th in a blueberry planting, with 14 males and 5 females trapped in drowning jar traps and 4 males and 2 females trapped on sticky traps.

Western New York counties have begun to catch SWD but are not yet at sustained trap catch.

We have trapped the first SWD in Ontario county today, with fairly high initial numbers: in total 4 male and 9 females trapped in drowning jar traps and in total 10 males trapped on sticky cards.

Thank you to Anna Wallis for checking those traps!

As of this week, we are at first SWD trap catch in Wyoming County.

Females SWD were trapped in drowning traps at two different locations within the county this past week: one was trapped  in ripe raspberries at first harvest stage, while two swd were trapped in a blackberry planting just beginning to show color.

Thank you to Don Gasiewicz for checking those traps!

 

We've reached sustained catch in Yates county, with 2 female SWD caught in a drowning jar trap in a blueberry planting.

We've also reached sustained catch in Tioga county, with 4 male SWD and 2 female SWD caught in a drowning jar trap in a blueberry planting.

We reached sustained trap catch today in Albany county, in traps set in ripe raspberries. In total 41 males and 9 females were trapped on both red sticky as well as jar drowning traps.

We also had a re-catch in Saratoga county today, but it does not count as sustained trap catch because no spotted wing were trapped at that site last week (but were trapped there two weeks ago). We will continue to trap in Saratoga county until we catch swd in the traps for two weeks in a row.

Thank you to Laura McDermott and Natasha Field for checking those traps!

We reached first trap catch today in Clinton county, with 2 male swd trapped on red sticky traps as well as 1 male swd trapped in a jar drowning trap. The traps were set in a blueberry planting.

We have reached sustained trap catch today in Rensselaer county, with a single male swd found in a drowning jar trap in an amelanchier hedge row. Thank you to Dale-Ila Riggs for monitoring that trap!

We reached sustained crap catch yesterday in Essex County. A single male SWD was found in a raspberry planting on a red sticky trap.