Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu We are finally seeing bloom in fruit crops. Plums and apricots are in mid-bloom, peaches and nectarines are just starting to bloom. This is about 2 weeks later than the average. As… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu It has been a wet week and excess moisture can cause problems in fruit crops. It has been so wet that during blackberry harvest we are seeing slugs on ripe fruit (we… Continue Reading
Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu There has been another report of spotted wing drosophila (SWD) in cherries, this time from an orchard in Caroline County, Maryland. We have a number of berry crops and soft fruits currently… Continue Reading
Joanne Whalen, Extension IPM Specialist; jwhalen@udel.edu As of last week, we had not detected any spotted wing drosophila in our four trapping locations. However, the first suspects were found in Maryland last week and states to our north have started… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Growers and an alert county agent, Ben Beale, have found what most likely will be an infestation of spotted wing drosophila (SWD) in cherries in southern Maryland (St. Mary’s County). I… Continue Reading
