At 25 clusters the threshold number is 4 so sampling should continue. Another 5 clusters are samples and 1 infested cluster is found, which brings our cumulative total to 4 infested clusters Out of 30 clusters samples. Therefore, an insecticide should be applied. Strategy An integration of cultural, biological, and chemical controls are essential for a sucessful pest management program on strawberry. Often, this results in reducing your need for chemical controls.
More research is required before certain cultivars can be recommended in preference to others.
Monitoring experience over the last five years indicates that cultivars with later flowering and harvesting dates tend to have higher plant bug populations and the potential for greater injury to the fruit. Preferred weed hosts for TPB include dandelion, chickweed, wild mint, creeping charlie, and goldenrod. Where possible, strawberry fields should not be established within 500 m of the above mentioned areas. At the present time there is no economical biocontrol method available that will control TPB completely. Most biocontrol techniques only suppress pest populations and should be integrated with other methods of control.