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How to Manage Pests

Peach

Emerging Pest in California

Year-Round IPM Program

Tells you what you should be doing throughout the year in an overall IPM program. Includes Year-Round IPM Program Annual Checklist. video presentation Using a year-round IPM program | Forms and supplemental pages

Year-Round IPM Program for Peach (3/10)

UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines

University of California's official guidelines for pest monitoring techniques, pesticides, and nonpesticide alternatives for managing pests in agriculture, floriculture, and commercial turf. More

Authors & credits | All crops | Download PDF | Recent updates

General Information

Dormant Shoot Sampling (4/10)
Pheromone Traps (4/10)
Early Season Monitoring (4/10)
Shoot Strike Monitoring (9/15)
Fertilizer Applications (4/10)
Fruit Sampling (4/10)
Relative Impact of the Timing of Pesticide Applications on Natural Enemies (4/10)
Relative Toxicities of Insecticides and Miticides Used in Peaches to Natural Enemies and Honey Bees (9/15)
General Properties of Fungicides Used in Peaches (5/12)
Fungicide Efficacy for Peach Diseases (6/17)
Treatment Timing for Key Diseases (6/17)
Fungicide Resistance Management (6/17)

Diseases

Armillaria Root Rot (Oak Root Fungus) (9/15)
Bacterial Canker (9/15)
Brown Rot Blossom and Twig Blight (9/15)
Crown Gall (9/15)
Jacket Rot (9/15)
Peach Leaf Curl (9/15)
Phytophthora Root and Crown Rot (9/15)
Powdery Mildew (9/15)
Ripe Fruit Rot (9/15)
Rust (9/15)
Scab (9/15)
Shot Hole Disease (9/15)
Verticillium Wilt (9/15)

Nematodes

Nematodes (9/15)

Integrated Pest Management for Stone Fruits

Insects and Mites

Black Peach Aphid (9/15)
Brown Mite (9/15)
European Fruit Lecanium (9/15)
European Red Mite (9/15)
Fruittree Leafroller (9/15)
Katydids (9/15)
Obliquebanded Leafroller (9/15)
Omnivorous Leafroller (9/15)
Oriental Fruit Moth (9/15)
Pacific Flatheaded Borer (9/15)
Peach Silver Mite (9/15)
Peach Twig Borer (9/15)
Peachtree Borer (9/15)
Plant Bugs (9/15)
Prune Limb Borer and American Plum Borer (9/15)
San Jose Scale (9/15)
Shothole Borer (9/15)
Stink Bugs (9/15)
Webspinning Spider Mites (9/15)
Western Flower Thrips (9/15)

Weeds

Peach Weed Photo Gallery, with Common and Scientific Names (4/10)
Integrated Weed Management (4/10)
Weed Management in Organic Orchards (4/10)
Special Weed Problems (4/10)
Susceptibility of Weeds to Herbicide Control (9/15)
Susceptibility of Spring/Summer Weeds to Herbicide Control (9/15)
Herbicide Treatment Table (9/15)

More information

2017 Efficacy and Timing of Fungicides, Bactericides, and Biologicals for Deciduous Tree Fruit, Nut, Strawberry, and Vine Crops (PDF)
Year-round IPM programs video
Mitigating pesticide hazards
Herbicide Symptoms Photo Repository website and tool
Herbicide resistance: Glyphosate
UC Fruit Report: Best production practices
Take a survey: What pest management techniques work for you?
UC Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center
UC Weed Research and Information Center

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