Learn how to apply monitoring and sampling to protect your crops from SWD infestations. This year's topics will cover trapping technologies, lures and baits, potential trap thresholds, best techniques to gauge fruit infestation, all investigated by the Sustainable SWD Management Project team.

This 1-hour session will share current guidelines for SWD adult and larval sampling methods and practical applications of these tools for fruit growers. Presenters include:

•     Rufus Isaacs & Steve Van Timmeren (Michigan State University)
•     Hannah Burrack (NC State University)
•     Cesar Rodriguez-Saona (Rutgers University)
•     Phil Fanning (University of Maine)
•     Vaughn Walton (Oregon State University)

These SWD experts work on the SWD-susceptible crops you love to grow and sell: raspberry, highbush blueberry, lowbush blueberry, blackberry, and cherry.