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Tree Fruit Entomology – Nottingham Lab
Nottingham Entomology
Dog in pear orchard

Welcome!  The Nottingham Tree Fruit Entomology lab is based out of WSU’s Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center in Wenatchee WA. Our primary goal is improving insect and mite pest management practices in commercial tree fruit orchards. Topics include insect behavior, phenology, biological control, cultural control, and chemical control.
2022 Nottingham Lab: (top left addition) Chris Sater and Myk Vietas, (in person, clockwise from top left) Louis Nottingham, Rob Curtiss, Cody Andre, Delaney Frazier, Chris McCullough, Robert Orpet, Molly Sayles, Katlyn Catron, Toriani Kent

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Louis Nottingham, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, WSU – TFREC
louis.nottingham@wsu.edu,
Twitter: @LouisNottingham

    • Let'em Fly!
    • Toriani Kent tosses out sterile codling moths for mark-release-recapture
    • Is it Spring Yet?
    • Chris McCullough getting a whole lotta snow and not many insects, April 2022
    • Optivisors never disappoint
    • Robert Orpet (postdoc) and Kobe Lucas (technician) counting psylla eggs on pear trees
    • Bloom tray taps
    • Molly Sayles samples for pear psylla during bloom
    • Non-target effects
    • Toriani and Cody test nearly every insecticide known to humankind against our predatory friends, the humble earwig
    • Bees Please!
    • Chris McCullough hoses down a pear tree with BeeScent to see if it will enhance pollination.
    • Scouting Training
    • Louie Nottingham (R) trains folks on how to ID insects at a WSU field day
    • Spraybro
    • Chris McCullough doesnt mind being the spray guy from time to time
    • D-vac Attack
    • Katlyn Catron samples for X-diseases vectoring leafhoppers in cherries with a D-vac to develop a phenology model.
    • Pear Hound
    • Blackbird is one with the pears.

We’re Hiring!

We are always looking for hard working people excited about insects or science in general.

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What’s New Page for Lab Happenings

a leaf with a dark colored hardshell psylla nymph and a smaller light colored young nymph.

Pear Psylla Integrated Pest Management

Cacopsylla pyricola (Foerster) (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) Updated by Louis Nottingham, Robert Orpet, WSU Entomology; Tianna DuPont, WSU Extension. May 2022. Adapted from by Everett C. Burts, Helmut Riedl, and John Dunley, originally published 1993. Pear psylla…
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The First Year of the Pear Psylla Phenology-based Management Program Exhibits IPM Success

IPM was as effective as conventional management at controlling pear psylla by Molly Sayles, Robert Orpet, and Louis Nottingham November 28, 2022 IPM works by having a spray program that promotes natural enemies, which provided…
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Reducing areawide pear psylla winterforms requires an areawide effort

Sticking the landing, post-harvest psylla populations by Chris McCullough, Robert Orpet, Molly Sayles, and Louis Nottingham November 7, 2022 During the 2022 pear growing season, our WSU pear entomology team monitored pear psylla and its…
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Wenatchee Life Page

All the reasons why Wenatchee is so much fun!

    • Fall
    • In love at the Lake, or maybe the Loch?
    • Ski
    • Take some buddies to the Icicle River trails
    • Hike
    • Spring wildflowers are a must-see in Leavenworth
    • Float
    • The Wenatchee River offers many locations for paddle boarding, tubing, kayaking and white water rafting
    • Enjoy
    • Columbia Brewery is a great place to kick back with other TFREC folks
    • Relax
    • In beautiful vistas like these
    • Climb
    • World class rock climbing abounds, including this site near Vantage
    • Stroll or Bike
    • Enjoy Art in the Park along the Apple Capital Loop Trail on foot or by bicycle
    • Wow
    • Fall larches are an annual treat
    • Hike or Bike
    • Smell the pines at Ski Hill in Leavenworth, a jumping off point for miles of hiking and single track mountain biking trails
    • Forage
    • It tastes 'just like chicken' or so they tell me
    • Chill
    • At high mountain lakes
    • Ski
    • Enjoy this view of Sleeping Lady Mountain from the Icicle River ski trails
    • Paddle
    • Standing or sitting, paddle boarding is a great way to catch the scenery at Lake Wenatchee
    • Smell
    • The dahlias and other flowers at the TFREC demonstration garden
    • Snowshoe
    • Meet new friends at Lake Wenatchee
    • Forage
    • Always bring a hat for unexpected berries
    • Breathe
    • Take a break and enjoy the scenery at Icicle River ski trails
    • Hike
    • To one of the many beautiful lakes in the high country
    • Bike or Hike
    • The Sage Hills trails near TFREC offer sweeping vistas and great spring wildflowers

Publications Page

IPM for Psylla Using Kaolin and Reflective Mulch

Integrated Pest Management Programs for Pear Psylla, Cacopsylla pyricola (Förster) (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), Using Kaolin Clay and Reflective Plastic Mulch Reflective mulch plot September 1, 2022 Pear psylla, Cacopsylla pyricola (Förster) (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), is the most…
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Plant Defense Elicitors

November 18, 2021 Test of plant defense elicitors for arthropod pest suppression and PR-1 gene induction in pear orchards Plant defense elicitors (PDEs) are chemicals that stimulate plant defenses against pathogens and herbivores. Previous work…
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Dusky Slug in Field Corn and Soybean

June 2, 2021 Ambient moisture causes methomyl residues on corn plants to rapidly lose toxicity to the pest slug, Arion subfuscus, Müller (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) The carbamate insecticide methomyl is sometimes used to control slugs in…
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