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Integrated Approach to Manage the Pest Complex on Temperate Tree Fruits
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 Integrated Approach to Manage the Pest Complex on Temperate Tree Fruits

 

Project Summary

Temperate tree fruits including apples, pears, and cherries are attacked by a complex of arthropod pests which require insecticides to manage. New or improved integrated pest management (IPM) strategies are needed for tree fruit pests to address environmental concerns associated with the use of pesticides, consumer interest in pesticide-free produce, insecticide resistance, and international and political pressures. The effective use of available IPM tools and the development of new IPM approaches requires broad knowledge of arthropod biology and ecology, which is incomplete for most pests of deciduous tree fruits and nearly absent for newly invasive or emerging pests. Our project uses a multidisciplinary and multifaceted approach to address knowledge gaps in the biology and management of key pests of tree fruits with a primary focus on codling moth, pear psylla, apple maggot, western cherry fruit fly, brown marmorated stink bug, Northern giant hornet, and leafhopper vectors of cherry X-disease.

Completion of this project will decrease tree fruit production costs attributed to management of insect pests. 

 

Researchers Conducting Tree Fruit Insect Research at Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research Unit:

 Post Doctoral Scientists Conducting Tree Fruit Research at the Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research Unit: