General Situation Despite relatively high thrips counts in some areas, TSWV incidence remains low generally with a few heavily infected crops. Any younger crops will remain susceptible to economic damage until fruit set. Temperatures over the next 10 days will start out with a run of 4 or 5 days…
May 23, 2025 UpdateGeneral Situation: Daily high temperatures will be sitting between the high 80s and 105F over the next 10 days. These are good conditions for thrips development, but sustained heat at or above 100F might slow population growth down a little.Thrips development: Generation 3…
General Situation: Daily high temperatures will be swinging between the low 70s and low 90s F over the next 10 days. These are ideal conditions for thrips development. There are already scattered TSWV infections in crops in Fresno and Kings. The key objective is to stop these scattered…
April 21, 2025 updateGeneral background: We are a little slow getting off the mark with our updates this year. The UC ANR web platform was changed in the last month and we're having some issues migrating the old website and blogs over to the new platform. In the meantime we're using this web…
General outlook After a brief spike in temperatures over the last few days, with highs in the low to middle 80s F, a more unsettled and cooler pattern will return for the coming week, including a chance of localized rain showers on Saturday.
