Claire Winslow (first semester Master’s student) won 2nd place for her poster on Spotted Wing Drosophila Integrated Pest Management at the Entomological Society of America’s Pacific Branch Meeting in Hawaii in April 2024. This was Claire’s first poster and conference as a graduate student, so it was very exciting for her and the lab.
Cacopsylla pyricola (Foerster) (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) Updated by Louis Nottingham, Robert Orpet, WSU Entomology; Tianna DuPont, WSU Extension. May 2022. Adapted from by Everett C. Burts, Helmut Riedl, and John Dunley, originally published 1993. Pear psylla is an important pest of pear in Washington. Honeydew produced by pear psylla causes fruit russet, and serious infestations can […]
IPM was as effective as conventional management at controlling pear psylla by Molly Sayles, Robert Orpet, and Louis Nottingham November 28, 2022 IPM works by having a spray program that promotes natural enemies, which provided effective (and free!) control of pear psylla. This season revealed that IPM can control pear psylla as effectively as conventional […]
Sticking the landing, post-harvest psylla populations by Chris McCullough, Robert Orpet, Molly Sayles, and Louis Nottingham November 7, 2022 During the 2022 pear growing season, our WSU pear entomology team monitored pear psylla and its natural enemies (predators and parasitoids) across orchards in the Wenatchee Valley. Orchards were either conventional, organic, or followed our new […]
October 27, 2022 The October 2022 issue of the Good Fruit Grower featured our ginormous codling moth project covering 45 sites across 6,500 square miles of Central Washington. The project is led by Nottingham lab postdoc Rob Curtiss with assistance from research technician Toriani Kent. In the past few years, a resurgence of codling moth […]
June 10, 2022 Early-Career Parenting: Surviving, If Not Thriving by Katlyn A Catron, PhD This article was originally published in the Summer 2022 edition of “American Entomologist” https://doi.org/10.1093/ae/tmac040 The early stage of an entomologist’s career is filled with difficult decisions: do I take a postdoc, an industry job, or just light my degrees on fire […]
