How to Manage Pests

UC Pest Management Guidelines

Field sanitation is important for reducing certain overwintering pests before the next growing season. Carry out sanitation practices in the field to reduce the spread of:

• Weevils on blackeye beans. Eliminate potential sources of beans leftover in production areas such as:
  • in or on planting hoppers, or harvesters following harvest
  • broken sacks of seed beans
  • animal feed programs
  • fields after harvest
  • warehouse areas
• Diseases. Plow under bean debris in fields infected with anthracnose (common, lima) or halo blight immediately after harvest. Bury plant refuse to reduce sources of southern blight.
• Seedcorn maggots and weeds. Disc or plow early in the season incorporating residues from the previous crop and destroying weed growth.
• Nematodes. Wash soil from equipment before moving from infested to noninfested fields.

PUBLICATION

UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines: Dry Beans
UC ANR Publication 3446
General Information
W. M. Canevari, UC Cooperative Extension, San Joaquin County
C. A. Frate, UC Cooperative Extension, Tulare County
L. D. Godfrey, Entomology, UC Davis
P. B. Goodell, UC IPM Program, Kearney Agricultural Research Center, Parlier
R. F. Long, UC Cooperative Extension, Yolo County
C. J. Mickler, UC Cooperative Extension, Stanislaus County
S. C. Mueller, UC Cooperative Extension, Fresno County
J. L. Schmierer, UC Cooperative Extension Colusa County
S. R. Temple, Plant Sciences,UC Davis

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