{"id":424522,"date":"2026-01-21T22:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424522\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:33:08","slug":"sterile-insect-program-helped-protect-okanagan-orchards-but-more-can-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424522\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterile insect program helped protect Okanagan orchards, but more can be done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e4fcd47c-f353-405d-a316-4585bfc2244e.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Stock photo of apples damaged by codling moth infestation (ID 122684929 \u00a9 Sarah2 | Dreamstime.com)<\/p>\n<p>By Liam Verster<\/p>\n<p>Codling Moth Protections<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJan 21, 2026 | 1:32 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The agency that helps protect apple, pear and fruit growers from codling moth infestations said 2025 was a good year, but did fall a bit short of their target.<\/p>\n<p>The Okanagan Sterile Insect Program board of directors said it worked with growers and residents across the region to keep codling moth populations at low levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver half the orchards have no detectable codling moths and 86 per cent had extremely low levels of infested fruit,\u201d the board report stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe program fell just short of its target of &gt;90 per cent of the acreage of pome fruit having \u22640.2 per cent infested by the codling moth this year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stock photo of apples damaged by codling moth infestation (ID 122684929 \u00a9 Sarah2 | Dreamstime.com) By Liam Verster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[89469,89467,89464,89466,26121,89463,89462,49,48,89471,89468,89465,74656,66,89470,55129,89461],"class_list":["post-424522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-105-7","tag-107-5","tag-107-5-beach-radio","tag-89466","tag-b-c","tag-beach-fm","tag-beach-radio","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cjib","tag-ckiz","tag-jim-pattison","tag-north-okanagan","tag-science","tag-sun-fm","tag-vernon","tag-vernon-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}