June 30, tomorrow is July.  Pandemic raging.

First full change of olive fly yeast traps for front yard (10 trees), hill (6 trees) and gate (3 trees).  I’ve set 17 traps on these 19 trees.  We still have 16 trees in the back orchard with 6 traps set, first time in mid-June, and 2 new traps to add when I reset these mid-July.  These back orchard trees were set later with fewer traps because they wer picked pretty clean in the harvest last fall, and they are generally younger, smaller trees, less history of production and therefore much less infestation.

Last week’s weather was remarkable, in that it was a weather pattern we really haven’t seen for some years.  It was cold, in the low 60’s, which was not that unusual, but we had fog coming in everyday around 3 pm and burning off the next day by mid-morning.  Ten years ago I would have said that that was our usual summer pattern, but then it disappeared.  The marine layer would drift in in the late afternoon, but without the fog.  Looks like we may be returning to foggy times.