Utah TRAPs: Alerts for Pests

Utah TRAPs (Temperature Resource and Alerts for Pests) is the only weather data and pest management tool of its kind for crop producers in Utah. TRAPS displays site-specific current weather, past weather, and forecasted pest management recommendations for 8 important fruit pests and 1 wheat pest for over 20 weather stations in orchards around Utah. With Utah TRAPS in your pocket you'll never be caught off guard by freezing temperatures, drought conditions, pesticide drift from high winds, or wondering when to treat pests in your region.

Some useful features: • Select your location and immediately gain access to current and the prior day’s weather conditions (temperature, dew point, wind speed, and precipitation for the week)

• Choose a pest you are concerned with, such as codling moth, peach twig borer, or western cherry fruit fly, and see pest emergence rates, treatment information, and a history of pest activity.

• Get pest management recommendations for up to 3 weeks in the future.

• Graphs that display 24 hours of temperature, dew point, wind, and precipitation data.

• Graphs that display the history of pest-specific degree days for up to 3 months.

• Hold your finger over any graph to view more detailed information.

• Data is updated directly from the website at climate.usurf.usu.edu/traps/, providing up-to-date information parallel to the full website.