Strawberries and Caneberries

Strawberry season has started to kick into high gear on the Central Coast (at least until this spell of rain), and inevitably comparisons arise of fruit sizes.

If you read Spanish and want to know more about Botrytis in strawberry with a focus on this year, I include for you below my interview with UC ANR's Spanish language service.

A number of you have checked in about large numbers of larvae and or butterflies that haven't been very common in the past years. We find them a lot on cheeseweed (Malva), but there is some damage on berries as you can see from the pictures below.

I've heard it said that blackberries could be grown out of concrete.

Sometimes what seems so obvious from the isolated heights of the ivory tower is not so obvious for those working in the field. In a query which is far from the first time, I had a question submitted over the weekend over whether worms emerging from strawberry fruit were LBAM.