In this handbook we have addressed the most important pest organisms with the potential to reduce mushroom yield and quality. The handbook is intended for growers, as well as researchers, as both an educational tool and a reference manual. Recommendations presented here are not intended to bind growers in their decision-making processes. Rather, they should serve as a guide for developing effec…
The turfgrass industry in Kansas includes home lawns, institutional and industrial grounds, sod production, golf courses, athletic fields and other recreational turf, parks, roadsides, airports and cemeteries. Home lawns comprise by far the greatest amount of turfgrass acreage. Turfgrass is maintained for beautification, recreation, erosion control and general utility purposes. In general, p…
Ornamental plants and turf are grown for their aesthetic value. Because of that, these plants are more valuable to one person than to another. The various pests of ornamental plants may cause considerable damage when they occur in high enough populations. These pests include disease agents, weeds, insects, mites, and vertebrate animals. Other plant problems may include such things as imprope…
In Kansas, subcategory 3C is titled, Interior Landscape Pest Management, and is defined as follows: “This subcategory shall include any commercial application of a pesticide to control pests in the production and maintenance of houseplants and other indoor ornamental plants maintained or located within structures occupied by humans, including houses, apartments, offices, shopping malls, and …
Transgenic pest-protected crops were first commercially planted in the United States in 1995. Since then the acreage planted to transgenic crops has increased rapidly with some 70 million acres being grown in the United States, and 98.6 globally in 1999. Of this acreage, a large percentage (for example, 30 million acres in the US in 1999) is planted with transgenic pest-protected crop vari…
This book is a practical guide to protecting grains and other raw commodities, food processing facilities, finished food, and durable plant and animal products from insects, molds, and vertebrate pests. The 31-chapter training manual is an updated companion to the 1995 Oklahoma State publication, E912, Stored Product Management. All-new chapters from the world’s leading experts will give r…
This book is a practical guide to protecting grains and other raw commodities, food processing facilities, finished food, and durable plant and animal products from insects, molds, and vertebrate pests. The 31-chapter training manual is an updated companion to the 1995 Oklahoma State publication, E912, Stored Product Management. All-new chapters from the world’s leading experts will give r…
This book is a practical guide to protecting grains and other raw commodities, food processing facilities, finished food, and durable plant and animal products from insects, molds, and vertebrate pests. The 31-chapter training manual is an updated companion to the 1995 Oklahoma State publication, E912, Stored Product Management. All-new chapters from the world’s leading experts will give r…
This book is a practical guide to protecting grains and other raw commodities, food processing facilities, finished food, and durable plant and animal products from insects, molds, and vertebrate pests. The 31-chapter training manual is an updated companion to the 1995 Oklahoma State publication, E912, Stored Product Management. All-new chapters from the world’s leading experts will give r…
This book is a practical guide to protecting grains and other raw commodities, food processing facilities, finished food, and durable plant and animal products from insects, molds, and vertebrate pests. The 31-chapter training manual is an updated companion to the 1995 Oklahoma State publication, E912, Stored Product Management. All-new chapters from the world’s leading experts will give r…
Soybean rust, a disease that causes serious crop losses in many parts of the world, was first detected in the continental United States in November 2004. Soybean rust is caused by the fungus Phakopsora pachyrhizi. Long known to occur in Asia, the fungus spread to Zimbabwe, South Africa; Paraguay; Brazil; Colombia; and now the United States during the last 10 years. Yield losses in other parts o…
Integrated pest management (IPM) is a pest management strategy that focuses on longterm prevention through regular monitoring and a combination of control methods. IPM attempts to prevent losses from pests in ways that are effective, economical, and available, while maintaining safety of the crop, people, and environment. IPM is based on a thorough understanding of the pest, so cultural, mechan…
This manual was produced in response to the lack of material on greenhouse IPM and biocontrol. It begins with an introduction to IPM and its principles, information on starting an IPM/biocontrol program and using compatible pesticides, and then addresses many of the most common greenhouse pests and their biocontrols. The emphasis throughout is biocontrol. This manual is designed to educate com…
Use of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) principles and practices in the school environment is a growing trend in communities throughout the United States. IPM’s focus on pest prevention using effective, leasttoxic methods is proving practical to apply and costeffective to operate. As Maryland school IPM expert William Forbes (and others) have pointed out, a school is a challenging place to…
Use of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) principles and practices in the school environment is a growing trend in communities throughout the United States. IPM’s focus on pest prevention using effective, leasttoxic methods is proving practical to apply and costeffective to operate. As Maryland school IPM expert William Forbes (and others) have pointed out, a school is a challenging place to…
Abstract: This publication provides the rationale for biointensive Integrated Pest Management (IPM), outlines the concepts and tools of biointensive IPM, and suggests steps and provides informational resources for implementing IPM. It is targeted to individuals interested in agriculture at all levels.
Abstract: This publication summarizes IPM for greenhouse aphids on both vegetable and ornamental crops. Focus is on monitoring, sanitation, biological controls, biorational pesticides, and insect growth regulators. Supplemental tables include information on the newest biopesticides and biological control organisms
Ecological pest management employs tactics that have existed in natural ecosystems for thousands of years. Since the beginning of agriculture — indeed, long before then — plants co-evolved with pests and with the natural enemies of those pests. As plants developed inherent protective mechanisms against pests, they were helped by numerous partners in the ecosystem, for example: 1. Benefici…
Abstract: Field vacuuming is a novel concept for pest management in organic cropping systems. Though heavily promoted, it has not been widely adopted. This publication provides an overview of the history and applicability of insect vacuum technology.
At the request of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Research Council’s Board on Agriculture convened the 14-member Committee on Pest and Pathogen Control through Management of Biological Control Agents and Enhanced Natural Cycles and Processes to assess status of the knowledge in areas of pesticide application,…
ABSTRACT. This article summarizes the knowledge to date on biology of the potato leafhopper, Empoasca fabae (Harris), including its distribution, development, migration, agricultural host plants, and mechanics of injury to host plants. Damage to alfalfa, potatoes, soybeans, and snap beans, and treatment guidelines, are summarized. Particular attention is given to integrated pest management op…
ABSTRACT. Gauging the pest status of invasive insects is a vital element of postestablishment management and response plans. After their 2004 detection in New York, diverse field observations were summarized to appraise the pest status of Tipula oleracea L. and T. paludosa Meigen in turfgrass of the Northeast United States. In residential lawns, impacts included nuisance swarms of adults and …
ABSTRACT. Since the publication of the integrated control concept (Stern et al. 1959), integrated pest management (IPM) has been based upon the principle of rational decision making with knowledge of plant-pest interactions and economic tradeoffs. In addition, although the determination of economic-injury levels and other decision benchmarks have been extraordinarily helpful with the applicat…
ABSTRACT. A challenge facing integrated pest management (IPM) technology transfer programs is to identify where to conduct outreach. As IPM is a knowledge-intensive management process, effective training usually requires sustained interactions between extension professionals and target farmers. Efforts to disseminate IPM are constrained by limited extension budgets and therefore should focus …
Abstract. Registration is a necessarily sophisticated evaluation process applied to vertebrate pesticide products. Although conducted to minimise any potential impacts upon public health, the environment and food production, the allencompassing process of registration can stifle innovation. Vertebrate pesticides are rarely used to control pest animals in food crops. In contrast to agrochemical…