Research Projects

This pan-Canadian project conducted in Ontario, Québec, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick focuses on strategies for controlling three key pests in apple production.

Design and validation of a new generation of high tunnels with automatic retractable roofs, new roofing materials, and screens that will extend the harvest season.

This project will formulate multiple independent, but potentially synergistic, strategies to control Spotted Wing Drosophila.

The project’s overall goal is to slow the arrival of Spotted Wing Drosophila in crop plots using mass trapping at overwintering sites.

This project will evaluate the efficiency of the initial releases of sterile spotted wing drosophilas on fall raspberry plots.

This project’s goal is to develop a large-scale inundative release method using the same trichogramma species employed in a previous project.

Project to increase the use of mating disruption to control codling moths.

Validation and adaptation of pest and disease monitoring and decision support tools.

The overall objective of the project is to inform apple growers via regional demonstration plots of the latest apple IPM techniques.

The aim of this project is to measure the potential of automated traps and extrapolate it to an apple-monitoring network.

Research projects on controlling fire blight.

IRDA is in charge of the economic analysis for this project which purpose is to examine the impact of flower plantings on bumblebee biodiversity in apple orchards in southern Québec.

The aim of this project is to determine the combined impact on fungicide efficacy of rain and the appearance of new leaves to more accurately identify how long treatments remain effective.

The main aim of this project is to test a bacterial detection technique developed in Austria that consists of quantifying inoculum carried by bees.