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SWDs are here

CaraRose
9 years ago

So, I started to get slack cause I hadn't seen SWD's yet this season. I'd been netting individual berry clusters on my blackberries but between vacation and just being busy with work I wasn't able to get some clusters covered as they ripened or monitor for the SWDs well.

So the good news is, other than one bunch that had a hole in the netting (which I must say acted as a good SWD trap, it was filled with them), not a single berry that's been netted had any maggots. I have a lot of still very green berries and rock hard just starting to turn pink berries, so I got more netting to do.

Bad news is I'm going through and bagging and general cleanup of infested fruit and anything starting to ripen that wasn't covered. I also found them on a basket of everbearing strawberries. Hate these bastards.

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