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Integrated Pest Management for Almonds

Publication 3308 - 199 pages - $32.00

This second edition, newly revised and expanded, is a comprehensive and practical guide that contains biological, ecological, and management information for more than 120 vertebrate, insect, mite, pathogen, and weed pests occurring in almond orchards in California. More than 30 University of California researchers, Cooperative Extension specialists, farm advisors, and pest control professionals contributed to the content. The book provides an ecological framework for making pest management decisions. It covers the development and growth requirements of the almond tree and general management techniques, including identification, field monitoring, control action guidelines, cultural controls, biological controls, and the use of pesticides in an integrated pest management program. Vertebrate pests include ground squirrels, pocket gophers, mice, rabbits, deer, coyotes, and birds. Among the insect and mite pests are navel orangeworm, peach twig borer, San Jose scale, olive scale, European fruit lecanium, mites, oriental fruit moth, borers, ants, stink bugs and other true bugs, carob moth, leafrollers, and tent caterpillars. Diseases include crown and root rots, trunk and branch cankers, vascular system diseases, branch foliage and/or fruit diseases, bud failure disorders, and environmentally caused diseases.

New in the Second Edition

• Extensively revised chapter on vertebrate pest management adds recommendations for control techniques where endangered species occur
• Revised and expanded chapter on vegetation management includes detailed information on cover crops
• Revised section on navel orangeworm emphasizes cultural control techniques instead of insecticides
• Revised section on peach twig borer includes discussions of bloomtime sprays with Bacillus thuringiensis and pheromone mating disruption
• Ten new insect pests and diseases, including anthracnose, Alternaria leaf blight, rust, tenlined June beetle, and leafhoppers
• Revised and updated tables on susceptibility of rootstocks and scion cultivars to major pests
• 33 new color photos
• Detailed index

Excellent Photographs

Readers can find 259 color photographs and 79 line drawings and tables that illustrate key features and symptoms helpful in diagnosing problems, identifying pests and natural enemies, and carrying out monitoring and sampling programs.

"Each chapter is profusely illustrated with line drawings and excellent...photographs."
—Mark Shelton, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

List of Contents

Integrated Pest Management for Almonds

The Almond Tree: Development and Growth Requirements

The Nonbearing Years
The Seasonal Cycle of Bearing Trees
Growth Requirements

Managing Pests in Almonds

Pest Identification
Orchard Monitoring (Monitoring Pests  Monitoring Weather  Accumulating Degree-Days)
Control Action Guidelines
Management Methods (Site Selection and Preparation  Soil Solarization  Cultivar and Rootstock Selection  Planting and Managing a New Orchard  Replanting in an Established or Bearing Orchard  Frost Protection  Water Management  Fertilization  Ground Covers  Pollination  Harvesting  Pruning  Sanitation  Biological Control  Pesticides)

Vertebrates

Managing Vertebrate Pests
Ground Squirrels
Pocket Gophers
Eastern Fox Squirrel
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Voles (Meadow Mice)
Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Cottontail and Brush Rabbits
Mule Deer
Coyotes
Birds

Insects and Mites

Monitoring Insects and Mites (Monitoring Methods  Prevention and Management)
Navel Orangeworm
Carob Moth
Peach Twig Borer
San Jose Scale
Olive Scale
European Fruit Lecanium
Mites (Webspinning Mites  European Red Mite  Brown Mite  Citrus Red Mite  Peach Silver Mite)
Pavement Ant
Southern Fire Ant
Oriental Fruit Moth
Peachtree Borer
American Plum Borer
Prune Limb Borer
Pacific Flatheaded Borer
Shothole Borer
Boxelder Bug
Leaffooted Bug
Tenlined June Beetle
Leafhoppers
Stink Bugs
Lace Bugs
Fruittree Leafroller
Obliquebanded Leafroller
Tent Caterpillars

Diseases

Monitoring and Diagnosis of Almond Diseases
Prevention and Management
Root and Crown Rots (Phytophthora Crown and Root Rot  Crown Gall  Armillaria Root Root or Oak Root Fungus  Wood Rots)
Trunk and Branch Cankers (Ceratocystis Canker  Bacterial Canker  Foamy Canker  Band Canker)
Vascular System Diseases (Almond Leaf Scorch  Verticillium Wilt  Silver Leaf)
Branch, Foliage, and Fruit Diseases (Brown Rot Blossom and Twig Blight  Bacterial Blast  Shot Hole  Anthracnose  Rust  Alternaria Leaf Spot  Corky Spot  Almond Scab  Leaf Blight  Green Fruit Rot  Yellow Bud Mosaic  Hull Rot  Almond Brownline and Decline  Union Mild Etch and Decline  Almond Kernel Shrivel)
Bud Failure Disorders (Noninfectious Bud Failure  Infectious Bud Failure, Almond Calico  Nonproductive Syndrome  Dormant Bud Drop)
Environmentally Caused Diseases (Gumming, "Split-Pit," and Corky Growth  Nutritional Disorders  Herbicide Symptoms  Frost Damage  Wind Injury  Sunburn Damage)

Nematodes

Description and Damage (Root Knot Nematodes  Root Lesion Nematodes  Ring Nematode  Dagger Nematode)
Management Guidelines (Soil Sampling  Field Selection and Preparation — The "Replant Problem"  Soil Fumigation  Postplant Nematicides  Rootstock Selection  Fallow and Crop Rotation  Sanitation  Cover Crops)

Vegetation Management

Weed Management (Management Methods  Management during Orchard Establishment  Management in Established Orchards)
Weed Monitoring
Identifying Major Weed Species
Perennial Grasses and Sedges (Johnsongrass  Dallisgrass  Bermudagrass  Nutsedge)
Perennial Broadleaves (Curly Dock  Field Bindweed  Dandelion  White Clover)
Biennial Broadleaves (Little Mallow or Cheeseweed  Bristly Oxtongue)
Winter Annual Grasses (Annual Bluegrass  Wild Oat  Hare Barley or Wild Barley)
Winter Annual Broadleaves (Mustards  Wild Radish  Redmaids or Desert Rockpurslane  Common Chickweed  Burclover  Filaree)
Summer Annual Grasses (Barnyardgrass  Bearded Sprangletop  Large Crabgrass  Fall Panicum  Witchgrass)
Summer Annual Broadleaves (Common Knotweed  Spotted Spurge  Puncturevine  Common Purslane  Horseweed  Hairy Fleabane)
Cover Crops

Glossary

Index

How to Order

Integrated Pest Management for Almonds, Second Edition
Publication 3307 - Published 2002
Price $22.00 - 112 pages - ISBN 0-931876-70-2

This publication is available from the UC ANR Communication Services catalog. It is also available by mail; by telephone; at the ANR sales office in Oakland; and at many of the UC County Cooperative Extension offices. For more information, see "How to Order Publications."

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