INSTANT ALERTSOUTSMARTING SWD WITHSOCIAL MESIA

摘要

WHILE MANY SMALL FRUIT growers remember the days of mailed news alerts for pests and changes in growing conditions, Ric Bessin, an entomologist at the University of Kentucky, has turned to social media to help his growers combat berry growers' No. 1 enemy: spotted wing drosophila (SWD)."I remember the days when we would physically send newsletters to people," Bessin says. "That was the technology of the time. But it was sort of dead end," Bessin says.