Stone Fruit IPM for Beginners
This information is a series of how-to fact sheets for new stone fruit growers and scouts to protect stone fruit orchards from pests.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Setting Up for Success
- Chapter 3: Scouting Calendars
- Chapter 4: Importance of Weather for Predicting Pests
- Chapter 5: Guidelines for Safe and Effective Pesticide Use
Diseases
- Chapter 6: American brown rot
- Chapter 7: Bacterial canker
- Chapter 8: Bacterial spot
- Chapter 9: Black knot
- Chapter 10: Cherry leaf spot
- Chapter 11: European brown rot
- Chapter 12: Peach leaf curl
- Chapter 13: Perennial canker
- Chapter 14: Phytophthora crown & root rot
- Chapter 15: Post-harvest fruit rots
- Chapter 16: Powdery mildew
- Chapter 17: Scab in peaches, nectarines and apricots
- Chapter 18: X-disease
Insect pests
- Chapter 19: American plum borer
- Chapter 20: Aphids
- Chapter 21: Cherry fruit fly and black cherry fruit fly
- Chapter 22: Fruitworms and Leafrollers
- Chapter 23: Lesser peachtree borer
- Chapter 24: Mites
- Chapter 25: Oriental fruit moth
- Chapter 26: Peachtree borer
- Chapter 27: Plum curculio
- Chapter 28: Shothole borers
- Chapter 29: Spotted wing Drosophila
- Chapter 30: Stink bugs
- Chapter 31: Tarnished plantbug
- Chapter 32: Occasional pests: Japanese beetle, lecanium scale, rose chafer, San Jose scale, thrips
Developed by the Great Lakes Fruit Workers and funded by a working group grant from the North Central Integrated Pest Management Center.