Addressing the primary issues of complex backgrounds and low detection accuracy in strawberry disease target detection under practical farming conditions,an improved YOLOv8n strawberry disease detection algorithm as YOLOV8N-SD is proposed.Images of common strawberry leaf,flower,and fruit diseases under real-world scenarios are collected and processed to construct an experimental dataset.Optimizations and improvements are made to the YOLOv8n model.The primary convolutional module is reconstructed by using multi-scale parallel computing and patch-perceptive attention,introducing the C2f-PPA module.This effectively integrates multi-scale feature information,enhancing the model's feature capturing capability.Additionally,the ADown module is incorporated to reduce information loss during downsampling,thereby improving the model's inference speed and robustness.A Task-aligned Dynamic Head(TDyH)is proposed to strengthen information exchange between the localization and classification branches.This reduces model parameters while simultaneously enhancing detection precision and accuracy.According to experimental results,the improved YOLOv8n-SD model achieves a detection accuracy of 83.7%,representing a 3.3%increase over the original YOLOv8n.Its mAP@0.5 and mAP@0.5∶0.95 scores reach 76.9%and 59.9%respectively,marking improvements of 1.6%and 2.3%compared to the baseline.This enhanced algorithm not only accurately identifies common diseases at various stages of strawberry growth but also meets the lightweight and real-time detection requirements of edge devices.