Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Vegetable and bramble growers in Maryland have called me often over the last couple of years about fruit problems in their fields possibly caused by thrips. As an overall study of… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu I have been working with researchers from Virginia Tech on thrips identification in their crops. They had a severe problem with thrips, especially Western flower thrips (WFT) Frankliniella occidentalis, last summer… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu In several strawberry fields I have visited over the last two weeks I have found thrips in the flowers. Almost all of the thrips were eastern flower thrips. The number of… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Vegetable and bramble growers in Maryland have called me often over the last two years about fruit problems in their fields possibly caused by thrips. As an overall study of the… Continue Reading
