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Matthew Addison Cover Crop Trials

Matthew Addison retires

Hortgro’s long-serving crop protection programme manager started his career with the inception of integrated pest management in South African orchards. By Anna Mouton. Although he was born in Johannesburg, Matthew Addison has deeper roots in the deciduous fruit industry than…

Fruit Fly On Pear

Important Fresh Notes during hot and dry conditions

Fresh Notes 157: Mites in hot and dry conditions. fresh-notes-157-mites-22-february-2019-2 Fresh Notes 159: Monitoring & control of BDfresh-notes-159-bdorsalis-monitoring-23-april-2019-1 Fresh Notes 169: Harvesting during heatwave conditions.fresh-notes-169-heat-damage-plums-preharvest-updated-2020-2

Monitoring Bactrocera Dorsalis

Monitoring Bactrocera Dorsalis

Status of Bactrocera dorsalis: Bactrocera dorsalis (Oriental Fruit Fly) is a quarantine pest of Asian origin capable of infesting various commercial fruit crops (400 recorded hosts). It was previously described as the Invader fruit fly (Bactrocera invadens). It is now found in 65 countries…

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