Annual Reports
2001—UC IPM on the World Wide Web
Contents
Information Available from the UC IPM Web Site
Web Site Supports Data Sharing by Research Projects
New "Quick Tips" Series Inaugurated
Calculate Degree-days with Your Own Weather Files
New 30-year Weather Averages
Most-Accessed Crop Guidelines and Pest Notes
Information Available
from the
UC
IPM Web Site
A wide range of pest management information and related data
is available on the UC IPM Web site:
- Pest Management Guidelines:
illustrated information for controlling pests in 42 crops, from the
UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines series
- Pest Notes: management
of nearly 100 home and landscape pests
- Weed Photo Gallery: descriptions
and photos of 125 weed species
- Degree-day calculator: computes
degree-days for use with phenology models, linked to weather database
or a user's data file
- Weather database: archive of
data from stations throughout California
- Insects, mites, and plant phenology
models: descriptions of degree-day models of more than 100 organisms
- Crop disease
models: descriptions of models of crop-specific diseases
- Results of sponsored research projects, such as NEMABASE,
California PestCast,
cotton planting forecast,
dormant spray alternatives cost calculator
- Pesticides and Water Quality: information for preventing contamination
of waterways by agricultural and urban pesticide use
- California pesticide use summaries:
DPR pesticide use data since 1990
- Catalog of publications, educational
resources, software, etc.
- UC IPM annual reports
(1995-2001)
- Funded projects database:
Summaries of research funded by UC IPM grants programs
Web Site Supports Data Sharing by
Research Projects
 In
2001 UC IPM's Web site was used by two wide-scale insect
monitoring projects to collect field data into one place and display
graphs to participants. To design the new Web-based program, staff worked
with the Walnut Pest Management Alliance, led by IPM Advisor Carolyn
Pickel, and a project devoted to validating degree-day models of six
noctuid pests, led by Sutter-Yuba counties Farm Advisor Mike Cahn.
Observers monitor insect traps in fields in several California counties,
then enter the trap counts into a spreadsheet, save it as a tab-delimited
file, and upload it through the Web to a database at UC IPM. Immediately,
graphs of the trap data and degree-days may be viewed on the Web by all
project participants, and a complete data file for the season may be downloaded
from the database for viewing or analysis.
The program was written to support a wide variety of research designs.
Access to the online data can be restricted to observers, other participants,
or released to the public, as specified by a monitoring project's leader.
For a sample of the program, see "Pest
Monitoring" on the Funded Projects Web page.
New "Quick Tips" Series Inaugurated
Sometimes readers just want a quick look at specific information offered
by a site. A new series of Quick Tips offers summaries of different kinds
of information available through UC IPM. The first set of Quick Tips pages
are connected to our Pest Management Guidelines for home and landscapes
(Pest Notes). Look up ants
or fleas or cockroaches
for examples.
These initial Quick Tips come from the consumer information cards
developed and printed last year in conjunction with the Sacramento
Stormwater Management Program. The cards provide information on controlling
several urban pests and suggest alternatives to using diazinon and chlorpyrifos,
which are known to contaminate surface waters in California.
Calculate Degree-days with
Your Own Weather Files
UC IPM Web site users now can calculate degree-days and run degree-day
models using their own weather data. The UC IPM calculator
continues to be linked to the extensive California
weather database, but users also can upload a delimited data file
containing weather data from any location. A hand calculator lets users
enter temperatures by hand. UC IPM's DOS microcomputer program DDU, may
be downloaded free, but the new weather-file features on the Web replace
its functions.
New 30-year Weather Averages
Weather data averages used on
the UC IPM site have been recalculated for the period 1971-2000. Daily
air temperature and precipitation data were averaged over the 30-year
period for climate stations managed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Most-Accessed Crop Guidelines and
Pest Notes
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