That Can Bug You

摘要

IT SEEMS strange to think now, but it wasn't that long ago that growers had never even heard of such insects as spotted wing drosophila or brown ma rmorated stink bug. Today, you'd be hard-pressed to find a single fruit grower who isn't familiar withthese pests. With the crop season getting under way, American/Western Fruit Grower caught up with a couple of experts whose companies are on the leading edge in developing state-of-the-art solutions to growers' insect headaches. We asked Lars Swanson, Portfolio Manager - Rynaxypyr, DuPont Crop Protection, and Brian Timmerman, Portfolio Marketing Leader for Insecticides for Dow AgroSciences, a series of five questions.