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Pest Profile: Spotted Wing Drosophila
May 29, 2012 The spotted wing drosophila (SWD) is a relatively new pest in the USA that attacks fruit plants. While the SWD can attack a wide range of soft-bodied summer fruits, its favorite plants are raspberry and blackberry. It is also a grave threat to cherries, peaches, nectarines, and grapes. The SWD is a vinegar fly that originated from southeast Asia. It migrated to Hawaii in the 1980s and was spotted in the continental USA starting in August of 2008.
It has spread from California all the way to Florida and North Carolina. This pest poses a serious threat to fruit crops and can inflict sizable economic losses to agricultural areas.
To check if your garden has SWD, make a simple trap made of a plastic drinking cup. Make sure the cup is transparent so you can see its contents. Put some vinegar made from apple cider in the cup. To boost the cup's ability to attract SWD, wrap yellow sticky cards around it-bugs are attracted to bright yellow. The yellow sticky cards are optional, but they boost your trap's ability to attract these bugs.
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Webshops
Are you looking for gardening products and do you want to order them online? Have a look at our selected garden webshops and buy a product where ever and whenever you want.
Garden center chains
On the Garden Center Guide you can find information of the biggest garden center chains of the US. Click on the name of the chain for more information:
- Ace
- Armstrong garden centers
- Calloway / Cornelius Nursery
- Earl May garden centers
- Green Thumb Nursery
- Houston Garden Centers
- IKEA
- Mahoney's garden center
- Meadows Farms Nurseries
- Merrifield Garden Center
- Orchard Supply Hardware
- Pasquesi Home and Gardens
- Petitti Garden Centers
- Pike Nurseries
- Sears
- Star Nursery
- Stein Garden & Gifts
Please visit this page for more information about garden center chains in the US.