Going to start covering my individual berry clusters on the blackberries soon. My neighbors are going to think I'm crazy ;)

That larva looks a little big for SWD, and more yellow than I remember seeing in my blackberries last year. Let's hope the cold killed the buggers off.

PA and KY didn't get that cold, but MI was cold enough to kill lots of peach trees.

A friend of mine north of Fargo ND told me this past winter
how bad SWD has been the past few years. If they can
survive winter in North Dakota, I don't think the cold will wipe them out. He tells me his raspberry jam had a lot of extra protein in it last year.

This pest is relatively new to KS. Last year was the first year I noticed any damage to SWD.

Probably need to monitor when they start showing up here every year.

There are some "look alike" SWD flies. Oregon has a good identification site for SWD but it takes a microscope to confirm SWD caught in a trap. I used an old "kids" microscope and it worked well enough.

I still haven't figured out a good way to deal with dropped fruit. Right now I'm storing it in a sealed black trash bag and keeping it in the sun, since I don't have much fruit this year.

Last year I threw drops in a barrel and kept the barrel sprayed with insecticide, but that's not a very good option. Neither is burying, too much work to do it every day.