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Educational Materials: Detailed Descriptions
Integrated Pest Management for Floriculture and
Nurseries
Published 2001 · Publication 3402 · 422 pages
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California's $2.5 billion-a-year flower, foliage, and nursery crops
industry will benefit from the fourteenth and largest of the IPM
manuals. This publication will help users create better crops, more
profit, and a healthier environment. Integrated Pest Management
for Floriculture and Nurseries was written for growers, farm
advisors, IPM scouts, pesticide applicators, pest control advisers,
and students. It provides information on pests affecting bulbs,
cut flowers, potted flowering plants, foliage plants, bedding plants,
and ornamental trees and shrubs grown in the field, greenhouse,
and nursery.
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Well-Illustrated
This IPM manual contains more than 300 high-quality color photographs
and 164 line art illustrations and tables. Individual chapters detail
the prevention, diagnosis, and management of abiotic disorders, pathogenic
diseases, insects and mites, nematodes, and weeds. Detailed crop tables
give you a symptom-based guide for accurately diagnosing problems and
gives the recommended controls for more than 120 flower and foliage species.
Sample pages
IPM Principles and Tactics
Floriculture and nursery managers are increasingly adopting IPM principles
and tactics. Benefits of IPM methods include reducing pesticide resistance;
minimizing phytotoxicity and disruptions that occur from pesticide reentry
intervals; and reducing the costs of pesticide purchases, application
labor, and regulatory compliance.
You'll Learn...
- how to establish an IPM program for your nursery
- techniques for managing pests in flower and nursery crops
- how good cultural practices can nip problems in the bud
- disease control techniques for root and crown decays, vascular
wilt diseases, and pathogens infecting flowers and foliage
- how to identify and manage aphids, leafminers, thrips, whiteflies,
and mites
- management methods for weeds
- how to identify and manage nematodes
IPM for Floriculture and Nurseries was written by Steve H. Dreistadt,
photographs are by Jack Kelly Clark, and Mary Louise Flint served as technical
editor.
How to order
This publication is available from the UC ANR Communication Services catalog.
It is also available by mail, by telephone, or through the ANR sales offices and many UC County Cooperative Extension offices. For locations and more information, see "How to Order Publications."
List of Contents
Integrated Pest Management for Floriculture and Nurseries
Managing Pests in Flower and Nursery Crops
- Crop production and IPM planning · Pest Prevention · Sanitation and exclusion · Environmental management and cultural practicesMonitoring · Scouting benefits · Scouting costs and crop quality · Beginning
a monitoring program · The
scout · Communication · Pest
management units · How
to monitor · How
much to monitor · Selecting
plants for inspection · How
to examine plants · Indicator
plants · Key
plants · Presence-absence
sampling · Monitor
control efficacy ·Inspect growing areas · Keep
written records · Use
a computerDiagnosing Problems · Thresholds · Why use thresholds · When
to treat · How
to establish thresholdsManagement · Mechanical control · Environmental
or physical control · Cultural
control · Biological
control · Chemical
control · Sanitation and Exclusion (Make the growing area pest-free before planting · Start
with high-quality stock · Keep
pests out of growing areas · Growing
media treatments) · Environmental Management and Cultural Practices (Resistant cultivars · Alternative
crops · Crop
rotation · Fallowing · Planting
design · Avoid
continuous cropping · Planting
time · Properly
care for crops) · Pesticides (Types of pesticides · Pesticides
are toxic · Selectivity · Persistence · Phytotoxicity · Resistance · Applying
pesticides effectively · High-volume
applications · Low-volume
applications · Monitoring
spray coverage)
Abiotic Disorders and Cultural Practices
- Water Excess or Deficiency · Edema · Irrigation Frequency (Tensiometers · Container
weight changes ·Evapotranspiration · Irrigation
frequency strategies) · Irrigation Methods (Overhead · Drip · Subirrigation) · Water Quality · Recirculated and Reclaimed Water · Salts · pH · Growing Media · Moisture · Aeration · Testing · Heat-treatment induced media toxicity · Containers · Fertilization · Nutrient Disorders · Nitrogen · Iron
and manganese · Phosphorus · Boron Pesticides and Phytotoxicity · Light · Sunburn · Sunscald · Excess
or deficient light · Container Spacing · Ventilation · Temperature and Cold · Chilling · Frost
and freezing · Greenhouse ·
cooling · Physical and Mechanical Injury · Carbon Dioxide · Ethylene · Air Pollution · Ozone · Sulfur
oxides
Diseases
- Types of Pathogens · Fungi · Bacteria · Viruses · Phytoplasmas
Monitoring · Record keeping · Tools
and help · Diagnosing Disease · Disease-inducing conditions · Management · Sanitation · Growing Media Treatments (Sterilization versus pasteurization · Steam
and heat · Solarization · Composting · Disease-suppressive
compost · Fumigation · Disinfecting
soilless growing media · Sanitizing
containers using heat) · Disinfectants · Quality Propagation Material · Heat Treatment of Plants · Environmental Management (Temperature and heating · Humidity · Condensation · Ventilation · Light · Computers) · Cultural Practices (Irrigation · Water
treatment · Drainage · Fertilization · Crop
rotation · Fallowing · Deep
plowing · Flooding · Planting
time) · Weed and Insect Control · Biological Control · Suppressive Soils · Mycorrhizae · Pesticides · ROOT, CROWN, AND STEM DISEASES · Damping-Off · Root and Crown Decays · Pythium Root Rots · Phytophthora Root and Crown Rots · Rhizoctonia Root Rot · Thielaviopsis Root Rot · Armillaria Root Rot · Dematophora Root Rot · Bacterial Soft Rots · Cottony Rot · Southern Blight · Botryosphaeria Canker and Dieback · Crown Gall · VASCULAR WILT DISEASES · Fusarium Wilt · Verticillium Wilt · Bacterial Wilts · FOLIAR AND FLOWER DISEASES · Gray Mold · Powdery Mildews · Downy Mildews · Sooty Molds · Leaf Spots · Fungal Leaf Spots (Alternaria · Septoria · Anthracnoses · Heterosporium) · Bacterial Spots and Blights · Rusts (Chrysanthemum White Rust) · Fasciation · Viruses (Impatiens Necrotic Spot and Tomato Spotted Wilt) · Phytoplasmas (Aster Yellows)
Insects, Mites, and Other Invertebrates
- Life Cycles · Damage · Diagnosing Problems · Monitoring · Sticky traps · Shaking
plants · Degree-day
monitoring · Thresholds · Management · Sanitation · Exclusion (Insect screening · Ultraviolet-absorbing
films and screens · Row
covers · Reflective
mulch · Barriers) · Cultural Controls · Mass Trapping · Biological Control (Pathogens · Parasites · Predators · Kinds
of biological control · Releasing
natural enemies effectively · Releases
in an IPM program · Nurse
plants) · Important Natural Enemies (Green and brown lacewings · Predaceous
bugs · Predaceous
beetles · Predaceous
flies · Parasitic
flies · Parasitic
wasps) · Pesticides (Pesticide resistance) · Types of Insecticides (Microbial or biological insecticides · Soap · Oil · Botanicals · Insect
growth regular · Pyrethroids · Inorganics · Synthetics)
Thrips · Leafminers · Whiteflies · Aphids · Mealybugs · Scales · Ants · Leafhoppers · True Bugs · Fungus Gnats, Moth Flies, and Shore Flies · Bulb Flies · Gall Makers · Caterpillars · Weevils · White Grubs · Cucumber Beetles, Flea Beetles, and Leaf Beetles · Earwigs · Mites · Snails and Slugs · Garden Symphylan · Centipedes and Millipedes · Pillbugs and Sowbugs · Springtails
Weeds
- Thresholds · Monitoring · Management · Weed Control Before Planting · Choose a Weed-Free Growing Site · Prepare the Site · Sanitation and Exclusion · Growing Media · Steam and Heat Pasteurization · Solarization (Field solarization · Field
or greenhouse solarization · Greenhouse
solarization · Container media solarization) · Repeated Irrigation and Cultivation · Repeated Dry Cultivation · Flame Weeding · Herbicides (Preemergence herbicides · Postemergence herbicides · Selectivity · Phytotoxicity · Herbicide-resistant weeds · Fumigation) · Weed Control Around Crop Plants · Planting Adjustments · Irrigation Management · Herbicide and irrigation coordination · Mulch (Synthetic fabric mulches · Geotextile
barrier disks · Organic mulches) · Cover Crops · Hand-Weeding (Hand-pulling · Hoeing · Evaluating
hand-weeding and thinning) · Cultivation · Weed Control Outside Growing Areas · Mowing · Screens and Hedgerows · Biological Control · Types of Weeds · ANNUAL WEEDS · Annual Grasses (Annual Bluegrass · Large
Crabgrass) · Annual Broadleaf Weeds (Common Groundsel · Cudweeds · Little Mallow · Lesser-Seeded Bittercress · Common Purslane · Spotted
Spurge · Willow
Herbs) · PERENNIAL WEEDS · Bermudagrass · Creeping Fieldcress · Creeping Woodsorrel · Field Bindweed · Nutsedges · Birdseye Pearlwort · White Clover · AQUATIC WEEDS · Common Duckweed · Moss · Liverworts
Nematodes
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Damage · Identification and Biology · Sampling Nematodes · Management (Sanitation and cultural practices · Heat
pasteurization · Solarization · Fumigants · Hot
water dips · Amendments
and biological control) · Root Knot Nematodes · Foliar Nematodes
Crop Tables
Resources
- Organizations · Publications · World Wide Web Sites
Suppliers
Suggested Reading
- Spanish-Language Materials
Literature Cited
Index
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