Significance of Project
The apple maggot is a serious pest of apple, but has been found in non-commercial host trees in the Fraser Valley, Greater Vancouver, Vancouver Island, and Prince George. Currently, the only remaining commercial apple-producing regions in North America free of this pest are the Okanagan-Similkameen-Shuswap-Thompson Valleys (Okanagan Region) of BC. We’d like to keep it that way!
The host data collected from this site will be used to create a spatial distribution of the host species across the Okanagan Region. This spatial data of hosts will be later used in an agent-based model to simulate how the apple maggot population could spread and establish in the Okanagan Region and nearby regions, based on historical apple maggot spread data from the Washington State.
The participation of Okanagan citizens is critical to the success of this project, the more data points we get, the better our modeling predictions will be, and the better the modeling predictions are, the better chance we have at reducing the effect of the impending apple maggot pest in the Okanagan Region. The findings from this project will potentially help impede the apple maggot's spread and its detrimental effects on the Okanagan Region fruit industry and native plants.
With your participation, the host sites collected from you will greatly help producers and scientists better manage apple maggot spread, as well as other agricultural pests, in the Okanagan Region.
We believe this research to be very relevant to the Okanagan Region, and that it helps to involve the public by raising awareness, and potentially slowing the spread of an invasive insect pest.
Thank you for your support!
For more information about how you can prevent and/or manage apple maggot spread, visit http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/cropprot/tfipm/applemaggot2.pdf
Information references:
Brunner, J.F. 1987. Apple maggot in Washington state: a review with special reference to its status in other western states. Melanderia, 45, 33-51.
British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture (BCMA). 2013. http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/cropprot/tfipm/applemaggot.htm (May 25, 2015).
The host data collected from this site will be used to create a spatial distribution of the host species across the Okanagan Region. This spatial data of hosts will be later used in an agent-based model to simulate how the apple maggot population could spread and establish in the Okanagan Region and nearby regions, based on historical apple maggot spread data from the Washington State.
The participation of Okanagan citizens is critical to the success of this project, the more data points we get, the better our modeling predictions will be, and the better the modeling predictions are, the better chance we have at reducing the effect of the impending apple maggot pest in the Okanagan Region. The findings from this project will potentially help impede the apple maggot's spread and its detrimental effects on the Okanagan Region fruit industry and native plants.
With your participation, the host sites collected from you will greatly help producers and scientists better manage apple maggot spread, as well as other agricultural pests, in the Okanagan Region.
We believe this research to be very relevant to the Okanagan Region, and that it helps to involve the public by raising awareness, and potentially slowing the spread of an invasive insect pest.
Thank you for your support!
For more information about how you can prevent and/or manage apple maggot spread, visit http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/cropprot/tfipm/applemaggot2.pdf
Information references:
Brunner, J.F. 1987. Apple maggot in Washington state: a review with special reference to its status in other western states. Melanderia, 45, 33-51.
British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture (BCMA). 2013. http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/cropprot/tfipm/applemaggot.htm (May 25, 2015).