Hey everybody, Mark here. Sometimes it's good to go back and review the basics on a problem, and Dr. Artyom Kopp from UC Davis, an expert on vinegar flies, including of course spotted wing drosophila, offered up the post below.
Most people would agree that science is a powerful tool to solve problems and offers much to bring about betterment in the material life of humanity generally speaking. However, my thesis here is that science is most effective when it is actively directed, rather than passively.
Thanks to Doug Thomas of Crown Nursery for providing these photos to keep us posted of the progression of in field cold conditioning in MacDoel of our day neutral strawberries. These are Monterey variety.