Strawberries and Caneberries

A few weeks ago Mark got a call from a person who was wondering why a fungus that we work with, he believes it was Zythia ,also has another name, that being Gnomonia. There's quite a bit to sort out here, and so please follow us here.

Close readers of this blog will know that last year Mark noted toward the end of the season a very unusual looking insect in two of his strawberry research plots, which UCCE Entomologist on the Central Coast at the time Kirsten Pearson identified as the spiny assassin bug, an insect in the family Re...

In case you haven't heard or been outside lately, it's been real warm in the Watsonville-Salinas area the last few days.

Mark here - I was approached by Bob Tews, who is a part of a Colorado family business that produces a liqueur called Tingala www.tingalaspirits.

With the recent Section 18 permit to use Sefina insecticide for control of lygus bugs in strawberry, a number of growers and PCA's have approached both of us concerning the mode of action of Sefina, of which the active ingredient is afidopyropen.