General Situation Despite relatively high thrips counts in some areas, TSWV incidence remains low generally. Planting finally wrapped up in the last couple of weeks and younger crops will remain susceptible to economic damage until fruit set. Temperatures over the next 10 days are set to hover…
May 23, 2025 UpdateGeneral Situation: Daily high temperatures will be sitting between the mid 80s and high 90sF over the next 10 days. These are good conditions for thrips development, Thrips development: Generation 3 adults will reach their peak numbers in the first week of June…
May 2, 2025 UpdateGeneral Situation: Daily high temperatures will be swinging between the low to high 80s F over the next 10 days. These are ideal conditions for thrips development. Thrips development: Generation 2 adults will reach their peak numbers in the next few days. …
General 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 hosting platform. …
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.
