Fruit Crop Insect Scouting

David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu

We started trapping for brown marmorated stink bug in apple orchards about a week and a half ago. We have traps in three locations, one of those this week hit a cumulative trap count threshold of 5 BMSB. Asiatic garden beetle activity is high right now. They may cause significant defoliation of young cherry trees.