The first table shows most recent insect activity. Find historical biofixes and links to previous week’s insect activity below.
| Insect | First Biofix | Second Biofix | Third Biofix | Fourth Biofix | Activity Moths/Day | Avg.Deg. Days/Day | Day Deg. From Biofix |
| Codling Moth | 4/3 | - | - | - | .13 | 4.0 | 51 |
| Oriental Fruit Moth | 3/13 | - | - | - | .19 | 7.8 | 345 |
| Peach Twig Borer | - | - | - | - | - | - | ? |
| Naval Orangeworm Eggs | - | - | - | - | - | - | ? |
| San Jose Scale | 3/30 | - | - | - | - | 2.8 | 83 |
| Walnut Scale Crawlers | - | - | - | - | - | - | ? |
April 10, 2017 – As of 4/10, we have had no female codling moth or scale crawlers.
April 3, 2017 – We set the first biofix for codling moth at 4/3 in an Ashley walnut orchard just south of Red Bluff. The next event for codling moth will be female catch which we will use to estimate first egg hatch. The San Jose scale biofix for 3/30 came from almonds.
March 27, 2017 – The oriental fruit moth (OFM) biofix came from an almond orchard south of Red Bluff. We trapped one male. A codling moth (CM) was trapped on 3/20 in Ashley walnut. There has been little to no CM flight activity in the cool wet weather.
| Insect | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
| Codling Moth | 4/24 | 4/19 | 4/8 | 3/18 | 3/16 | 3/24 |
| Oriental Fruit Moth | 3/8 | 2/23 | 3/4 | 2/19 | 2/16 | 3/17 |
| Peach Twig Borer | 4/18 | 4/23 | 4/1 | 3/20 | 3/16 | 4/7 |
| Naval Orange Worm Eggs | - | 5/3 | 4/11 | 4/7 | 4/6 | 4/7 |
| San Jose Scale | - | 4/16 | 3/25 | 3/17 | 3/9 | 3/21 |
| Walnut Scale Crawlers | - | - | - | - | 5/4 | 5/16 |
Special thanks to Suterra for providing our trapping supplies.
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