Adding yeasts with sugar to increase the number of effective insecticide classes to manage <i>Drosophila suzukii</i> (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in cherry

Abstract

The addition of cane sugar with or without yeast can improve the effectiveness of diamide and spinosyn insecticides for D. suzukii in cherry. Inclusion of these two insecticides in D. suzukii management programs may alleviate the strong selection pressure currently being imposed on a few mode-of-action insecticide classes used by growers to maintain fly suppression over long continuous harvest periods of mixed cultivars. Published 2015. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.