City Forestry Radio | Fruit Timber and Noticed Wing Drosophila

Nikki Rothwell of Michigan State College’s Northwest Michigan Horticulture Analysis Centre talks about noticed wing drosophila (SWD). In contrast to different fruit flies that concentrate on principally rotting or fermenting fruit, SWD targets fruit proper on the tree, laying their eggs within the younger fruit and ultimately turning it right into a wormy mess.

SWD targets a variety of crops together with cherries, apricots, plums raspberries, currants, and elderberries. The unhealthy information is that noticed wing drosophila is spreading throughout North America, benefiting from our warming local weather.

Nikki has discovered that there are methods to make our orchards much less hospitable for SWD. Easy instruments like pruning and orchard ground upkeep are a big a part of the equation.

The host of The City Forestry Radio Present and Podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care schooling web site www.orchardpeople.com.  Tune into The City Forestry Radio Present LIVE by going to RealityRadio101.com on the final Tuesday of each month at 1.00 pm Jap Time.

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