2013 Presentations and Reports – SWD IPM Working Group

Bridgeton, NJ
October 30, 2013

Fruit Industry Reports

• U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council – Dave Trinka
• New York State Berry Growers Association (PDF, 6.9 MB) – Dale Ila Riggs

Research Reports

• Status, monitoring and management in Michigan – Rufus Isaacs, Michigan State University
• Status, monitoring and management in North Carolina – Hannah Burrack, NC State University
• Overwintering biology and alternative hosts – Greg Loeb, Cornell University
• Olfactory cues and chemical control – Cesar Rodriguez-Saona, Rutgers University
• Trap improvements, phagostimulants and behavioral control [presentation] and Mass trapping report – Richard Cowles, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
• Visual cues and behavioral control – Tracy Leskey, USDA ARS, Kearneysville, WV
• Biological control – Kim Hoelmer, USDA-ARS, Newark, DE
• Monitoring and management in caneberries and grapes – Doug Pfeiffer, Virginia Tech

Regional Reports of Impact

• New Jersey (highbush blueberry) – Dean Polk, Rutgers University
• New Jersey (grape) – Anne Nielsen, Rutgers University
• Pennsylvania – Kathy Demchak, Penn State
• New York [presentation] and New York State report – Julie Carroll, Cornell University
• New York (Long Island) – Faruque Zaman, Cornell University
• Connecticut – Mary Concklin, University of Connecticut
• Rhode Island (PDF, 3.5 MB) – Heather Faubert, University of Rhode Island
• Maine [not available] – Dave Handley, University of Maine
• New Hampshire – George Hamilton, University of New Hampshire
• Ontario, Canada – Pam Fisher, OMAFRA
• Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island & New Brunswick, Canada – Debra Moreau, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
• Quebec, Canada – Liette Lambert, Quebec Ministry of Agric.

Regulatory Updates

• MRL’s and exporting fruit – Tom Peerbolt, Peerbolt Crop Management, Portland, OR
• EPA perspectives on insecticide registrations & exemptions for SWD [presentation] and 24(c) application form – Audrey Moore, US EPA Region 2, Edison, NJ

Additional Technical Reports

• Loeb, G.L. and Carroll, J.E. 2012. Phenology and spatial distribution of adult and larval spotted wing drosophila in small fruit, stone fruit, and wild hosts in New York. NYS IPM Program Report. http://nysipm.cornell.edu/grantspgm/projects/proj12/fruit/loeb.pdf
• Zaman, F. 2012. Spotted wing drosophila: distribution of populations over time in wild and crop hosts. NYS IPM Program Report. http://nysipm.cornell.edu/grantspgm/projects/proj12/fruit/zaman.pdf