Melon Harvest: Part II

And the harvest continues...

 So heavy...

Melon Harvest 2012.

It's that time of year again when the entire Entomology building smells like musk melons for two weeks.

Mary, Paul, and I spent a good chunk of this morning harvesting melons from one of our field sites. We separate the marketable from the unmarketable fruits and weigh them to get our yield data.

It is likely that many members of the OARDC-Wooster campus are going to be sick of musk melon after these next couple weeks. Start getting the fruit salad ingredients ready!!

Hiding from the heat

If you look closely you can see three striped cucumber beetles hiding from the summer heat in a squash flower. We are counting cucumber beetles on squash and melons at a field site at OARDC hoping to learn more about different methods to decrease pests and disease in those crops.