What do growers, chocolate lovers, car manufacturers, and homeowners have in common? Hostility to brown marmorated stink bugs. By Anna Mouton. The brown marmorated stink bug — Halyomorpha halys — is a pentatomid bug. Familiar pentatomids include antestia — Antestiopsis…
Stink bugs or stem-pitting virus? By Anna Mouton. A new research project funded by Hortgro aims to establish the cause of dimpled and deformed pears seen in Western Cape orchards. The project is led by Dr Rachelle Bester and Prof.…
Conflicting views on a century-old disease. By Anna Mouton. Pear stony pit is a disease of pear trees that shows up as deformed fruit. The fruit are dimpled or pitted. Severely affected fruit may have a distorted shape and become…