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Samantha Anne Wilden

swillden@purdue.edu

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Fancy facts on strawberry pollination

July 8, 2022 - From Issue: 22-08
By: Samantha Anne Wilden and Laura Ingwell
Figure 2. Common pollinators found on strawberry flowers.
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Insects provide an important pollination service in many crops including strawberry. Although strawberry flowers can self-pollinate without insects, it is well known that supplemental pollination by insects can result in better formed and larger fruit. Therefore, pollination services in strawberry affects both quantity (berry size) and quality (berry shape) of yield. By evaluating strawberry fruit[Read More…]

 Article Categories:
  • Strawberry
 Article Tags:
  • Crop Management
  • Insect Management

Fungus gnat larvae in strawberries

June 10, 2022 - From Issue: 22-06
By: Laura Ingwell, Wenjing Guan and Samantha Anne Wilden
Figure 1: Dark-winged fungus gnat larvae on ripe strawberry. Photo by John Obermeyer.
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In the strawberry benchtop system in the greenhouses at Southwest Purdue Ag Center (SWPAC), we have been experiencing infestations in red berries of a small, clear larvae with a black head capsule. The larvae are often found in clusters on a single fruit and were difficult for us to identify. We encountered them in early[Read More…]

 Article Categories:
  • Strawberry
 Article Tags:
  • Crop Management
  • Insect Management

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