Chile: SAG met with blueberry growers to report spotted wing fly
The Agricultural and Livestock Service, SAG, Los Lagos met in Osorno with blueberry businessmen to report the presence and current situation in the southern area of the fly with wings stained with scientific name "Drosophila suzukii", Which attacks fruits of different species, and that after the first catches in June, work plans were initiated.
As explained by Andrés Duval, Regional Director of the SAG, it is a quite invasive pest, which has a wide range of hosts (commercial and wild fruits) and a great capacity to adapt to climatic conditions, especially with high relative humidity. That is why we must establish the real presence of this plague in the region.
The regional authority indicated that after defining it as a pest in the area, a work process was initiated to see what steps to follow during the spring.
Eighty million pesos is the budget that the SAG has allocated for this year in the De Los Lagos region to carry out surveillance actions and adopt preventive sanitary measures to mitigate its dispersion. The resources have been allocated for the hiring of a field team consisting of seven people, in addition to the support offered by the sector offices of the SAG. As well as the leasing of vans for exclusive use for this work implemented with an exclusive laboratory for the analysis of fruit and insect samples.
Source: Radiosago
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