2012 Highlights: UC IPM Annual Report

Resource roundup

New resources and updates from UC IPM in the past year include:

Pest management information and tools

Available online, unless otherwise noted

• Pest Management Guidelines—updated 14 crops
• Year-round IPM programs—added two crops (Cole Crops and Pistachio)
• Pest Notes—revised 10 titles and added three (Black Scale, Deer Mouse, and Removing Honey Bee Swarms and Established Hives)
• Quick Tips in English—revised 29 titles and added one (Asian Citrus Psyllid and Huanglongbing Disease) (also in print)
• Quick Tips in Spanish—revised 12 titles and added one (Psílido asiático de los cítricos y la enfermedad de Huanglongbing [Asian Citrus Psyllid and Huanglongbing Disease]) (also in print)
• Pest Alerts—Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (PDF) (also in print)
• Vineyard Pest Identification and Monitoring Cards (Spanish)  (print)
• IPM in Practice: Principles and Methods of Integrated Pest Management, 2nd ed. (print)
• Integrated Pest Management for Citrus, 3rd ed. (print)
• Integrated Pest Management for Rice, 3rd ed.(print)
• Detecting and Identifying the Walnut Twig Beetle: Monitoring Guidelines for the Invasive Vector of Thousand Cankers Disease of Walnuts
• Installing, Maintaining, and Servicing Walnut Twig Beetle Pheromone-baited Traps (PDF)

E-newsletters

• UC IPM Green Bulletin—four issues
• Retail Nursery and Garden Center IPM News—four issues

Online training materials

• Using degree-days to time insecticide applications in fruit and nut orchards
• Using Year-Round IPM Programs
• Managing Almond Pests Using the Year-Round IPM Program
• Installing walnut twig beetle traps
• Maintaining walnut twig beetle traps