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Pests of Landscape Trees and Shrubs
An Integrated Pest Management Guide

Publication 3359 - 501 pages - $42.00

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This comprehensive and authoritative book is an indispensable resource for landscape professionals, pest managers, and home gardeners. A UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program best seller, this book will help you diagnose and manage hundreds of insects, mites, weeds, plant diseases, nematodes, and other plant-care problems that damage landscape trees and shrubs. Beautifully and Profusely Illustrated Over 100 University of California researchers, Cooperative Extension advisors and specialists, and landscape professionals contributed to this essential resource.

Problem-Solving Tables
Plant-by-plant guide helps you diagnose and manage pests on hundreds of common woody landscape plants with reference to specific pages for photographs and more detailed information.

Emphasizes environmentally safe, less-toxic pest control methods. This book details how to use an ecologically based strategy called integrated pest management (IPM), including:

• pest-resistant plants and landscape design to prevent problems
• planting, irrigating, and other landscape care practices that keep plants healthy
• biological control
• less-toxic pesticides such as botanicals, oils, and soaps mulches, soil solarization, pest barriers, and other physical and mechanical controls

This convenient source book covers:

• designing an IPM program
• growing healthy trees and shrubs
• insects, mites, and snails and slugs
• diseases
• abiotic disorders
• weeds, and nematodes

Outstanding Color Photos
This manual has:

• More than 430 high-quality, full-color, professionally taken photographs to help you identify pests, damage symptoms, and natural enemies
• 120 line drawings and tables present key IPM techniques
• Over 500 information-packed pages

This landmark book is cause for celebration..." —The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog

"An indispensable resource for professional landscape managers and home gardeners alike..." —Arborist News

"The most thorough, balanced, and non-judgmental treatment of pests in the landscape..." —Pacific Horticulture

"Gorgeous and plentiful photographs..." —The IPM Practitioner

Pests of Landscape Trees and Shrubs, second edition, was written by Steve H. Dreistadt, photographs are by Jack Kelly Clark, and Mary Louise Flint served as technical editor.

List of Contents

Precautions for Using Pesticides

Contributors and Acknowledgments

What's in This Book

Designing an IPM Program

Which Organisms are Pests?
IPM Program Components (Prevention  Pest and Symptom Identification  Regular Surveying for Pests  Action Thresholds and Guidelines  How to Establish Thresholds)
Management Methods (Cultural Control  Mechanical Control  Physical Control Biological Control  Chemical Control)

Growing Healthy Trees and Shrubs

Growth Requirements
Plant Development and Seasonal Growth
Designing a Pest-Tolerant Landscape (Choose a Good Location  Provide for Roots  Consider Mycorrhizae  Choose the Right Tree or Shrub (Soil  Water  Climate  Cold, Heat, Light, and Wind  Select Healthy Plants  Pest Resistance  Plant Compatibility)
Site Preparation and Planting
Prepare the Site (Assess Drainage  Prepare the Soil  Plant Properly  Staking  Care for Young Trees and Shrubs)
Water Management (Water and Pest Problems  Irrigation. Estimating Irrigation Needs  Irrigation Methods  Conserve Water in Landscapes)
Fertilizing Woody Plants (Fertilization and Pests  When to Fertilize  Nutrient Deficiencies)
Pruning (Reasons for Pruning  Pruning and Pest Management  When to Prune  How to Prune  Avoid Topping Trees)
Injuries, Hazards, and Protecting Landscapes (Protect Trees During Construction  Minimize Fire Hazards  Recognize Hazardous Trees)

Insects, Mites, and Snails and Slugs

Damage
Life Cycles
Thresholds
Monitoring and Diagnosing Problems (Sampling  Yellow Sticky Traps  Branch Beating  Degree-Day Monitoring)
Management (Mechanical Control (Sticky Barriers)  Physical Control  Biological Control (Importation or Classical  Conservation and Enhancement  Augmentation)
Types of Natural Enemies  Birds and Other Vertebrates  Spiders  Mites  Lacewings and Dustywings  Assassin Bugs  Pirate Bugs  Predaceous Flies  Lady Beetles  Predaceous Beetles  Soldier Beetles)
Pesticides (Microbial and Biological Insecticides  Botanicals  Inorganics  Insect Growth Regulators  Insecticidal Soaps  Oils  Synthetics)
Foliage-Feeding Caterpillars
Sawflies
Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles
Weevils
White Grubs and Scarab Beetles
Crickets, Grasshoppers, and Katydids
Ants
Aphids
Adelgids
Psyllids
Whiteflies
Mealybugs
Scales
Leafhoppers and Sharpshooters
Treehoppers
Spittlebugs
Cicadas
True Bugs
Thrips
Gall Makers (Ficus Gall Wasp  Oak Gall Wasps  Gall Midges  Ceanothus Stem Gall Moth  Willow Gall Sawflies)
Foliage Miners (Cypress and Arborvitae Foliage Miners  Oak and Birch Casemakers and Skeletonizers  Shield Bearers  Pine Tip Moths)
Twig, Branch, and Trunk Boring Insects (Bark Beetles  Flatheaded Borers  Longhorned Borers  Clearwing Moths  Other Boring Moths  Raspberry Horntail Termites)
Mites
Snails and Slugs

Diseases

Types of Pathogens
Monitoring and Diagnosing Diseases
Disease Management (Resistant Plants  Quality Planting Material  Planting Site and Design  Irrigation and Fertilization  Pruning  Sanitation  Weed and Insect Control  Soil Solarization  Biological Control  Beneficial Microorganisms  Fungicides and Bactericides)
Symptoms on Leaves, Twigs, and Stems (Leaf Spots  Oak Branch and Twig Death  Fire Blight  Bacterial Leaf Scorch and Oleander Scorch  Verticillium Wilt  Fusarium Wilt  Dutch Elm Disease  Powdery Mildew  Downy Mildew  Sooty Mold  Rusts  Gray Mold or Botrytis Blight  Camellia Petal Blight  Azalea and Rhododendron Petal Blight  Bacterial Blight and Canker  Bacterial Gall  Drippy Oak and Nut Disease  Fasciation)
Symptoms on Trunks and Branches (Wood Decay in Trunks and Limbs  Canker Diseases  Crown Gall  Wetwood or Slime Flux  Foamy Canker or Alcoholic Flux  Sudden Oak Death  Pink Rot)
Root and Crown Diseases (Armillaria Root Rot  Dematophora Root Rot  Annosus Root Disease  Root and Crown Rot  Pythium Root Rot)
Viruses (Rose Mosaic Viruses  Camellia Yellow Mottle Virus  Nandina Mosaic Virus  Abutilon Mosaic Virus)

Phytoplasmas

Abiotic or Noninfectious Disorders

Water Deficiency and Excess
Aeration Deficit
Nutrient Deficiencies (Nitrogen  Phosphorus  Potassium  NPK  Iron  Manganese  Zinc  Magnesium)
Nutrient and Mineral Excesses (Nitrogen  Salinity Boron)
pH (Alkalinity)
Pesticides and Phytotoxicity (Herbicides  Insecticides and Other Pesticides)
Mechanical Injury
Sunlight (Sunburn and Sunscald  Excess or Deficient Light)
Edema
Temperature Extremes (High Temperatures  Freezing and Frost  Hail and Ice)
Wind
Lightning
Gas Injury
Air Pollution

Weeds

Tolerance Levels and Monitoring (Site Surveys  Transect Counts)
Managing Weeds
Designing and Redesigning Landscapes to Avoid Weeds (Headers  Competitive Plantings  Allelopathy)
Preparing the Planting Site (Irrigation  Cultivation  Solarization)
Mulch (Organic Mulch  Synthetic Mulch  Proper Mulch Application and Maintenance)
Controlling Weeds in Established Plantings (Prevent Weed Reproductions  Prevent Weed Introductions  Water and Fertilizer Management  Hand-Pulling  Hoeing  Cultivation  Mowing  Flaming  Hot Water  Biological Control  Chemical Control)
Types of Weeds
Weed Identification
Annual Grasses (Annual Bluegrass  Crabgrass)
Annual Broadleaves (Annual Sowthistle Common Purslane  Cudweeds  Little Mallow  Spurges  Nutsedges  Willow Herbs
Sedges (Green Kyllinga   Nutsedges)
Perennial Grasses (Bamboo Bermudagrass Kikuyugrass)

Perennial Broadleaves (Bermuda Buttercup and Creeping Woodsorrel Blackberries Dodder Field Bindweed Ivy Periwinkle Poison Oak Mistletoes)
Algae, Lichens, and Moss

Nematodes

Damage
Identification and Biology (Sampling  Thresholds}
Management of Nematodes (Root Knot Nematodes  Root Lesion Nematodes  Dagger Nematodes   Ring Nematodes  Stunt Nematodes  Citrus Nematode  Pinewood Nematode  Foliar Nematodes)

Problem-Solving Tables

Problem-Solving Guide
Tree and Shrub Pest Tables

References

Suppliers

Glossary

Index

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Pests of Landscape Trees and Shrubs
Second Edition
Publication 3359 - Published 2004
$42.00 - 501 pages - ISBN 1-879906-61-9

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