Small Fruit Insect Proposals

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the invitation to join the group. We are starting from a position of relatively little background research on models for small fruits so any progress will be good. I hope this can be an area for growth in the next few years. If we want growers to use this system, we have to have useful tools in place. I am excited to have a few ongoing projects funded by GREEEN, each including a component that will feed into enviroweather.

One is to develop and validate models for blueberry fruitworms (cranberry and cherry fruitworm) and the other to do this for grape berry moth. We are setting up a dummy webpage with Tracy to test the GBM model to see how well our predictions fit the 2007 season. If that goes well I would like to have this live for the 2008 season to get it into the hands of extension educators.

Other potential items to put on the wish list:

Blueberry crop phenology model. Start with Bluecrop and go from there.

OBLR. We have a model in apple so this could easily be translated onto a blueberry page.

Tussock moth. I have 2 years of GDD data for this in blueberry and we are gathering a third set this year.