Do you like yellow soft fruit? Are you a fan of genre defining 90’s music? Do you hope wistfully for a groundbreaking mashup containing both of these things? Could you be a cartoon supervillain with a cohort of minions?

Why not buy a t-shirt or a sticker!?

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#banana #nirvana #makers #maker #mydesign #degrowth #softfruit #90smusic #grunge #gru #minions

Excited about our new #InnovateUK project, FLYTHRIVE, with Olombria, NRI, Asplins and Summerberry Company. Hoverflies are amazing: dual-purpose beneficial insects! They are good little #pollinators, and many species also help control aphids! The larvae of the aphid-eating #hoverflies are voracious little predators that will eat up to a few dozen aphids per day.

As UK #fruit growers are seeing more and more #pesticide products withdrawn from approval, they are getting much more interested in biological control methods to manage pests - such as predatory insects.

So the FLYTHRIVE project is all about developing a hoverfly-based system (supported by machine vision and odour lures) to give safe and efficient aphid control on soft fruit.

https://hortnews.com/flythrive-uses-ai-to-drive-natural-defences-and-deliver-value-to-growers/

#IPM #PestManagement #Syrphidae #SoftFruit #Horticulture #FoodSystems #AgriTech

Today's Flighty's plot blog post is All ready

https://flightplot.wordpress.com/2025/03/23/all-ready-2/

#Allotment #Blog #Flowers #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #SoftFruit #Vegetables

Reminder: Niab's Soft Fruit Technical Day coming up next week (28th November). Free online event, 09:10 to 14:15 GMT, a range of short talks on how our research can be applied to soft-fruit growing systems. Crop physiology & biology, IPPM, sustainable growing.

https://www.niab.com/niab-soft-fruit-day-28-nov

#Horticulture #SoftFruit #Agriculture #SustainableFood #IPM #Entomology #CropScience

Dodged the showers to get these in. It’s not been a bad year with the blackcurrant haul particularly good.

We need some sunshine to ripen the blueberries though.
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#growyourownfood #softfruit #frommygarden #kitchengarden #homegrown #growwhatyoueat #cotswolds #HomegrownFood