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Educational Materials: Detailed Descriptions
Integrated Pest Management for
Avocados
Publication
3503
222 pages - $35.00
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Integrated Pest Management for Avocados is the most complete guide
available for managing pest problems in avocados. Developed for growers and pest control professionals,
IPM for Avocados uses the most up-to-date research available from University of California faculty and
Cooperative Extension specialists, combined with day-to-day experience from farm advisors and pest control
advisors. Over 30 University experts and industry professionals contributed to this new publication.
Integrated Pest Management for Avocados is designed for use in combination
with the 2007 revision of the Avocado: UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines, which provide up-to-date
pesticide recommendations, and the new seasonal decision-making guide Avocado Year-Round IPM Program.
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Indispensable Guide
This highly illustrated, 220-page book is an indispensable guide for:
- preventing and diagnosing causes of damage
- identifying pests and beneficial organisms
- understanding pest and natural enemy biology
- establishing a pest management program
- using biological control and other nonchemical methods
- understanding how cultural practices and their modification affect pests
- determining when direct control actions are warranted
High-quality Photographs
IPM for Avocados presents 386 high-quality color photographs of disorders and pests and the damage
they cause. These photographs and 64 major illustrations and charts help you to identify and manage
over 100 pests and disorders in avocado, including insects, mites, diseases, weeds, nematodes, and
vertebrates. Also pictured are key natural enemies of pest insects and mites and problems related to
irrigation, nutrition, and the growing environment.
The manual's first few chapters summarize avocado growth and development, general crop production
practices, and basic IPM principles. Subsequent chapters cover the management of avocado diseases,
abiotic (non-infectious) disorders, insects and mites, weeds, and vertebrate pests. Good harvest and
handling practices to enhance fruit quality and food safety are reviewed. IPM recommendations provided
include guidelines for monitoring pests, enhancing natural controls, and taking effective control actions.
IPM for Avocados
List of Contents
- Integrated Pest Management for Avocados
- The Avocado Tree: Development and Growth Requirements
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- Managing Pests in Avocados
Pest Prevention
Identification and Diagnosis
Monitoring
- Monitoring Units
Monitoring Pests
Monitoring Weather
Year-Round IPM
Control Action Guidelines
Management Methods
- Site Selection and Preparation
Rootstock Cultivar Selection
Excluding Foreign Pests
Sanitation
Mulch
Vegetation Management
Irrigation
Fertilization
Pruning
Harvesting
Biological Control
Conservation
- Pesticides
Using Pesticides Effectively
Problems Associated With Pesticides
- Cultural Practices and Abiotic Disorders
Water Deficiency and Excess
- Irrigation Methods
- Scheduling Irrigation
- Irrigation Efficiency
Aeration Deficit or Root Asphyxiation
Fertilization
Nutrient and Mineral Disorders
- Nitrogen
- Phosphorus
- Potassium
- Iron
- Manganese
- Zinc
- Chloride and Sodium
- Salinity
- Boron
- pH
- Alkalinity
Phytotoxicity
Injuries
- Carapace Spot
- Sunburn
- Heat Damage
- Ringneck
- Fire
- Frost and Freeze
Genetic Disorders
- Cuke
- Embossment
Disorders of Unknown Cause
- Crick-side
- Split Fruit
- Warty Fruit
- Woody Avocados
- Diseases
Monitoring and Diagnosis
Prevention and Management
- Plant Wisely Use good sanitation Provide good cultural care
- Symptoms from Infection Through Roots
- Avocado Root Rot or Phytophthora Root Rot
- Armillaria Root Rot
- Dematophora or Rosellinia Root Rot
- Root, Crown, and Wood Rots
- Verticillium Wilt
- Cankers on Trunks and Limbs
- Phytophthora Canker or Citricola Canker
- Dothiorella Canker
- Bacterial Canker
- Avocado Black Streak
- Symptoms on Fruit, Leaves, and Twigs
- Sunblotch
- Anthracnose
- Stem End Rot
- Phytophthora Fruit Rot
- Dothiorella Fruit Rot
- Dothiorella Leaf and Stem Blight
- Sooty Mold
- Insects, Mites, and Other Invertebrates
Monitoring Insects and Mites
Pest Prevention and Management
- Cultural practices Biological control Pesticides
Mites
- Persea Mite
- Avocado Brown Mite
- Sixspotted Mite
- Avocado Bud Mite
Thrips
- Avocado Thrips
- Neohydatothrips burungae
- Greenhouse Thrips
Caterpillars
- Amorbia or Western Avocado Leafroller
- Omnivorous Looper
- Orange Tortrix
Ants
Hemiptera
- Avocado Lace Bug
- Armored Scales
- Soft Scales
- Whiteflies
- Mealybugs
- Leafhoppers and Sharpshooters
- Twospotted Leafhopper
- Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter
- Exotic Pests
- Fruit Flies
- Diaprepes Root Weevil
Pests of Young Trees
- Fuller Rose Beetle
- June Beetles (Scarabs)
- Grasshoppers
- European Earwig
- Brown Garden Snail
- Branch And Twig Borer
- False Chinch Bug
Nematodes
- Weeds
Life Cycles
Monitoring
Management Before and During Grove Establishment
Management in Established Groves
- Sanitation Irrigation Mulch Cover crops
- Hand-weeding Flaming Cultivation Mowing
- Herbicides
Identifying Major Weed Species
Perennial Grasses
- Bermudagrass
- Dallisgrass
Summer Annual Grasses
- Barnyardgrass
- Crabgrasses
Winter Annual Grasses
- Annual Bluegrass
- Bromes
- Wild oats
Sedges
- Nutsedges
Perennial Broadleaves
- Field Bindweed
- Prickly Pear
- Wild Cucumber
Summer Annual Broadleaves
- Common Cocklebur
- Nightshades
- Puncturevine
Winter Annual Broadleaves
- Nettles
- Mustards
- Vertebrates
Observation and Identification
Monitoring
Control Actions
- Habitat modification Biological control Exclusion Trapping Endangered species guidelines Baits Fumigants
- Vertebrate Pests
- Ground Squirrel
- Eastern Fox Squirrel
- Pocket Gophers
- Opossum
- Raccoon
- Rats
- Deer Mice
- Voles or Meadow Mice
- Rabbits
- Deer
- Harvest Management for Fruit Quality
Prevent Fruit Quality Problems
Pick a Good Harvest Time
When Picking Fruit
Educate and Manage Field Workers
After Fruit Are Picked
- World Wide Web Sites
- Suggested Reading
- Literature Cited
- List of Tables and Figures
- Glossary
- Index
How to Order
Integrated Pest Management for Avocado
Publication 3503 - January 2008
Price $35.00 - ISBN 13-978-160107-420-1
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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