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Integrated Pest Management for Apples and Pears

Publication 3340 - 232 pages - $30.00

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The second edition of Integrated Pest Management for Apples and Pears, published in August 1999, offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date information on the management of pests in apples and pears. Written in the same easy-to-read format as the 1991 edition, this manual draws on the expertise of more than 70 University of California researchers, Cooperative Extension specialists, farm advisors, and pest control professionals. What's New New in the second edition are: a detailed index a completely revised section on codling moth management with detailed information on mating disruption revision of leafroller management practices updates on oak root fungus additions of wild asparagus and biological control of fire blight new control strategies for pear psylla

Indispensable Guide
This 232-page book is an indispensable guide for:

• establishing a pest management program
• diagnosing pest problems
• determining when control actions are needed
• identifying and preventing vertebrate damage
• identifying and using beneficial organisms
• using biological control and other nonchemical methods
• establishing new orchards
• understanding how cultural practices affect pest problems

Outstanding Photographs, Drawings, and Tables
More than 200 outstanding color photographs and 100 black and white photos and drawings help the reader identify, monitor, and manage more than 100 different pest problems, including insects, mites, diseases, nematodes, disorders, nutrient deficiencies, weeds, and vertebrate pests. A special sequence of color photos shows the bloom stages of both apples and pears. In addition to the outstanding photographs, the line drawings and tables cover such topics as:

• susceptibility of major apple and pear rootstocks to several disorders
• susceptibility of European and Asian pear varieties to pests
• susceptibility of major apple varieties to diseases
• frost protection
• water management guidelines
• fertilizer recommendations
• properties of narrow range oils
• the importance of dormant and delayed dormant treatments
• monitoring supplies and forms
• codling moth phenology model and spray schedule
• comparison of leafroller larvae and adults
• pear psylla predators and parasites
• scab management techniques
• fire blight management
• soil fumigation chart
• survey form for weeds

Beautifully Illustrated

"Beautifully illustrated....the color plates are worth the price alone!"
--CAPCA Newsletter

"Written in clear, succinct language with a minimum of technical terms..."
--Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America

List of Contents

Integrated Pest Management for Apples and Pears

Climate
California Growing Regions (North Coast  Central Coast  Central Valley  Sierra Foothills  Southern California Mountains)
About This Manual

The Pome Fruit Tree: Development and Growth Requirements

The Nonbearing Years
The Seasonal Cycle of Bearing Trees (Dormancy  Growing season)
Growth Requirements

Managing Pests in Apples and Pears

Pest Identification
Monitoring (Monitoring Pests  Monitoring Weather  Accumulating Degree-Days)
Control Action Guidelines (Management Methods  Site Selection and Preparation  Rootstock and Variety Selection  Planting and Managing a New Orchard  Replanting in an Established Orchard  Frost Protection  Water Management  Fertilization  Ground Covers  Fruit Thinning  Preharvest Drop  Harvesting  Pruning  Sanitation  Biological Control  Pesticides  Organic Production of Pome Fruit)

Vertebrates

Organically Acceptable Vertebrate Control
Pocket Gophers
Meadow Mice
Mule Deer and Black-tailed Deer
Jackrabbits
Porcupines
California Ground Squirrels
Birds

Insects and Mites

Monitoring Insects and Mites (Monitoring Methods)
Prevention and Management (Cultural Practices  Biological Control  Insecticides and Miticides  Pesticide Treatments)
Codling Moth
Other Caterpillars (Early-Season Monitoring for Caterpillars  Midseason Monitoring for Caterpillars)
Leafrollers (Orange Tortrix  Apple Pandemis  Obliquebanded Leafroller  Fruittree Leafroller  Omnivorous Leafroller  Western Tussock Moth  Speckled Green Fruitworm and Humped Green Fruitworm)
Leafminers
Miscellaneous Caterpillars
Pear Psylla
Mites (European Red Mite  Webspinning Mites  Brown Mite  Rust Mites  Pearleaf Blister Mite  Management Guidelines for Mites in Apple and Pear Orchards)
Aphids (Rosy Apple Aphid  Green Apple Aphid  Woolly Apple Aphid  Green Peach Aphid, Melon or Cotton Aphid, Bean Aphid)
Scales (San Jose Scale  Italian Pear Scale  European Fruit Lecanium)
Grape Mealybug, Obscure Mealybug
White Apple Leafhopper, Rose Leafhopper
Plant Bugs (Consperse Stink Bug  Conchuela  Redshouldered Plant Bug  Lygus Bugs  Boxelder Bug  Leaffooted Plant Bug)
Sawflies (California Pear Sawfly  Pear Sawfly)
Apple Maggot
Miscellaneous Insect Pests (Thrips  Wood Borers  Grasshoppers  Earwigs  Cribrate Weevil)

Diseases

Major Diseases of Apple
Major Diseases of Pear
Monitoring and Diagnosis of Diseases
Prevention and Management
Chemical Treatments
Root and Crown Rot Diseases (Phytophthora Root and Crown Rot  Dematophora Root Rot  Oak Root Fungus  Southern Blight  Crown Gall, Hairy Root)
Trunk and Branch Diseases (European Canker  Sappy Bark)
Diseases of Twigs, Leaves, Blossoms, and Fruit (Apple Scab and Pear Scab  Fire Blight  Pear Decline  Powdery Mildew  Bacterial Blossom Blast)
Virus and Viruslike Diseases (Stony Pit of Pear  Apple Mosaic  Pear Vein Yellows  Other Virus and Viruslike Diseases)
Abiotic Diseases (Bitter Pit  Storage Scald  Watercore  Black End  Sunburn or Sunscald  Frost Injury  Burr Knot  Apple Measles  Soil Salinity)
Nutrient Deficiencies (Boron  Copper  Iron  Magnesium  Manganese  Nitrogen  Phosphorus  Potassium  Zinc)
Herbicide Symptoms (Oryzalin or Surflan  Phenoxy Herbicides or 2,4-D  Glyphosate or Roundup  Paraquat or Gramoxone Extra  Simazine or Princep  Diuron or Karmex  Dichlobenil or Casoron  Norflurazon or Solicam)

Nematodes

Root Lesion Nematodes
Root Knot Nematodes
Dagger Nematode
Damage
Management Guidelines (Establishing an Orchard  Cultural Practices in an Established Orchard)

Weeds

Ground Covers
Growth Habits
Management Guidelines (Site Preparation  Young Orchards  Management in Established Orchards  Use of Herbicides  Monitoring)
Perennials--Grasses (Johnsongrass  Dallisgrass  Bermudagrass  Nutsedges)
Perennials--Broadleaves (Field Bindweed  Hoary Cress  Curly Dock  Buckhorn Plantain  Dandelion  Asparagus  Other Broadleaf Perennials)
Biennials--Broadleaves (Little Mallow  Bristly Oxtongue)
Annuals--Broadleaves

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Index

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Integrated Pest Management for Apples and Pears
Second Edition
Publication 3340 - Published 1999
Price $30.00 - 232 pages - ISBN 1-879906-42-2

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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