Strawberries

Drone mimicking peregrine falcon gives hope to strawberry growers

Falcon-like drone drives birds away from strawberry crops in Qld trial Tue 2 Jun 2026 at 7:02am In short: Birds cause more than $300 million in Australian crop losses annually. A drone mimicking a peregrine falcon is being trialled to protect strawberries. The trial, funded by Hort Innovation, will run for three years.

Gardeners beware: slugs returning after dry weather to threaten strawberries

Wetter weather expected to bring surge of slugs out of hiding, just as strawberries experience bumper early crop Entomologists in England are expecting a surge in slugs coming out of hiding to munch the nation’s strawberry plants after weeks of sun followed by wetter weather has caused a bumper crop. The Royal Horticultural Society is bracing for a surge in inquiries from its 625,000 members, who write in with their garden gripes. Workers at the RHS have also noticed a spate of slugs in the...

Gardeners beware: slugs returning after dry weather to threaten strawberries

Wetter weather expected to bring surge of slugs out of hiding, just as strawberries experience bumper early crop Entomologists in England are expecting a surge in slugs coming out of hiding to munch the nation’s strawberry plants after weeks of sun followed by wetter weather has caused a bumper crop. The Royal Horticultural Society is bracing for a surge in inquiries from its 625,000 members, who write in with their garden gripes. Workers at the RHS have also noticed a spate of slugs in the...

Vision-Based Early Fault Diagnosis and Self-Recovery for Strawberry Harvesting Robots

Announce Type: replace Abstract: Strawberry-harvesting robots faced challenges such as poor visual perception, gripper misalignment, empty grasp/misgrasp, and slippage, which reduced harvesting stability and efficiency. To overcome these issues, this paper proposes a visual fault diagnosis and self-recovery framework. An end-to-end SRR-Net achieved unified perception and fault diagnosis through joint detection, segmentation, and ripeness regression of the fruit and gripper.

Elderflower, strawberry, blueberry and cherry summer pudding

Raspberries and redcurrants aren’t in season until later in the summer, but I can never wait for them to make my first summer pudding. Elderflower cordial does vary in strength – I use Bottlegreen, which is quite intense. Requires a day’s chilling time Overview 20 mins 15 mins 6 Ingredients - 1kg mixture of hulled strawberries, blueberries and stoned cherries (prepared weight) - 2 tbsp caster sugar - 6 tbsp elderflower cordial - 275g sliced white bread, crusts removed (prepared weight)

How to turn squishy strawberries into a classic British dessert – recipe | Waste not

Enhancing Strawberry Yield Forecasting with Backcasted IoT Sensor Data and Machine Learning

Announce Type: replace Abstract: Rapid global population growth underscores the need for digitally enabled agricultural systems that support sustainable food production and data-driven resource management for farmers and stakeholders. The adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, capable of capturing real-time environmental (e.g., temperature, humidity) and operational (e.g., irrigation) parameters, is a crucial step toward enabling advanced applications such as AI-based yield...

I Was Scrolling and Then I Saw a Pregnant Strawberry

Announce Type: new Abstract: AI minidramas (also known as fruit dramas) are short, algorithmically distributed generative AI video series featuring anthropomorphized characters that have recently emerged as a widespread phenomenon on social media platforms. This paper argues that despite their seemingly innocuous aesthetic, these videos reproduce deeply gendered narrative structures in which female characters are systematically associated with moral transgression, sexual betrayal, and...

Berry mixed weather sees sweeter strawberries

Pick-your-own farmers in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire say topsy-turvy weather has delayed season.

Country diary: A late-night nightingale serenade | Nic Wilson

Strawberry Hill, Bedfordshire: After an evening round the campfire, we head into the wonderfully, chaotically alive scrub, to hear the headline act“Now I walk in beauty / Beauty is before me”. Earlier this evening we learned the simple melody to this Navajo prayer, and sang it as a round in the hawthorn clearing, adding our voices to the chorus of chiffchaff, blackcap and garden warbler.