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Nottingham Entomology

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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Toriani Kent tosses out sterile codling moths for mark-release-recapture.
a man in a wool hat and winter coat, pants and gloves stands in a snow covered orchard tapping a tree branch for insect sampling and only getting snow.
Chris McCullough getting a whole lotta snow and not many insects, April 2022.
Robert Orpet (postdoc) and Kobe Lucas (technician) counting psylla eggs on pear trees.
Molly Sayles samples for pear psylla during bloom.
Toriani and Cody test nearly every insecticide known to humankind against our predatory friends, the humble earwig.
Chris McCullough hoses down a pear tree with BeeScent to see if it will enhance pollination.
four people in a pear orchard examine a horizontal white tray for insects
Louie Nottingham (R) trains folks on how to ID insects at a WSU field day.
Chris McCullough doesnt mind being the spray guy from time to time.
Katlyn Catron samples for X-diseases vectoring leafhoppers in cherries with a D-vac to develop a phenology model.
Blackbird is one with the pears.

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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 is an important pest of pear in Washington. Honeydew produced by pear psylla causes fruit russet, and serious infestations can […]

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 natural enemies (predators and parasitoids) across orchards in the Wenatchee Valley. Orchards were either conventional, organic, or followed our new […]

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