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Integrated Pest Management for Stone Fruits

Publication 3389 - 264 pages - $35.00

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Integrated Pest Management for Stone Fruits is the first manual of its kind devoted to stone fruits. It is the most complete guide now available for managing pest problems in apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches, plums, and prunes. Indispensable Guide This book is an indispensable guide for: establishing a pest management program diagnosing pest problems identifying and using beneficial insects establishing new orchards using biological control and other nonchemical methods determining when control actions are needed understanding how cultural practices affect pest problems

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Developed for growers and pest control professionals, it uses the most up-to-date research available from University of California researchers and Cooperative Extension specialists, combined with day-to-day experience from farm advisors and pest control advisors. Home gardeners will find the books informative and useful as well. Topics covered include:

• training and pruning
• irrigation scheduling
• scheduling management activities
• soil and tissue sampling
• pheromone mating disruption
• relative toxicity of pesticides to natural enemies and honey bees
• organically acceptable pest control options
• vertebrate pest control options within the ranges of endangered species

Extraordinary Photographs and Illustrations
Hundreds of extraordinary photographs and illustrations show common and uncommon pest problems. The manual contains more than 300 excellent color photographs to help you identify, monitor, and manage more than 140 different pest problems, including insects, mites, diseases, nematodes, disorders, nutrient deficiencies, weeds, and vertebrate pests. The bloom stages of each fruit--apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches, plums, and prunes--are illustrated with color photographs. Exceptional line drawings and tables complement the photographs and cover such topics as:

• susceptibility of major rootstocks and varieties to a range of pests
• pollination
• fertilizer recommendations
• the importance of dormant and delayed dormant treatments
• supplies and forms for pest monitoring
• tree and fruit structure and development

Extremely Useful References

"...extremely useful references! They are filled with outstanding color photographs."
--Helmut Riedl, Professor of Entomology, Oregon State University, Mid-Columbia Research and Extension Center

List of Contents

Integrated Pest Management for Stone Fruits

Stone Fruit Production in California

Growth and Development of Stone Fruits

Growth Requirements
Development (Dormancy and Chilling Requirements  Shoot Growth and Development  Fruit Growth and Development  Root Growth and Development  Growth Interactions)

Managing Pests in Stone Fruits

Pest Identification
Orchard Monitoring (Monitoring before Planting the Orchard  Monitoring during the Season  Weather Monitoring  Accumulating Degree-Days)
Control Action Guidelines
Management Methods (Biological Control  Variety and Rootstock Selection  Certified Planting Stock  Soil Solarization   Establishing the New Orchard  Pruning  Pollination  Fruit Thinning  Girdling  Fertilization  Irrigation  Frost Protection  Harvest  Sanitation  Pheromone Mating Disruption  Pesticides  Organic Production of Stone Fruit)

Insects and Mites

Monitoring (Monitoring Methods)
Management Methods (Biological Control  Cultural Practices  Pheromone Mating Disruption  Pesticides)
Caterpillars (Peach Twig Borer  Oriental Fruit Moth  Leafrollers: Omnivorous Leafroller, Fruittree Leafroller, Obliquebanded Leafroller, Orange Tortrix  Green Fruitworms  Cankerworms  Codling Moth  Redhumped Caterpillar  Western Tussock Moth  Tent Caterpillars  Fall Webworm)
Plant Bugs (Stink Bugs  Lygus Bugs  A Plant Bug, Calocoris norvegicus)
Scale Insects (San Jose Scale  European Fruit Lecanium  Black Scale  Italian Pear Scale)
Other Insect Pests (Western Flower Thrips  Aphids: Mealy Plum Aphid, Leaf Curl Plum Aphid, Black Cherry Aphid, Green Peach Aphid, Other Aphids  Leafhoppers  Wood Borers: Pacific Flatheaded Borer, Shothole Borer, Peachtree Borer, American Plum Borer, Prune Limb Borer, Branch and Twig Borer  European Earwig  Cribrate Weevil  Katydids  Cherry Slug)
Mites (Webspinning Spider Mites  European Red Mite  Brown Mite  Eriophyid Mites)

Diseases

Orchard Monitoring and Diagnosis
Prevention and Management
Foliage and Fruit Diseases (Brown Rot  Powdery Mildew  Shot Hole  Jacket Rot, Green Fruit Rot  Leaf Curl, Plum Pockets  Rust  Scab  Fog Spot  Leaf Spot of Cherry  Anthracnose)
Root and Crown Diseases (Phytophthora Root and Crown Rot  Crown Gall  Armillaria Root Rot  Verticillium Wilt)
Trunk and Branch Cankers (Bacterial Canker and Blast  Eutypa Dieback  Ceratocystis Canker  Cytospora or Leucostoma Canker  Phytophthora Pruning Wound Canker  Silver Leaf)
Virus and Phytoplasma Diseases (X-Disease or Cherry Buckskin  Peach Yellow Leafroll  Peach Mosaic  Cherry Mottle Leaf  Yellow Bud Mosaic, Prune Brownline, Prunus Stem Pitting  Cherry Stem Pitting  Cherry Rasp Leaf  Prunus Necrotic Ringspot, Cherry Rugose Mosaic, Plum Line Pattern  Prune Dwarf, Peach Stunt  Cherry Necrotic Rusty Mottle  Peach Wart)
Abiotic Disorders (Crinkle Leaf, Deep Suture  Russet Scab  Wind Scab  Nectarine Pox  Peach False Wart  Noninfectious Plum Shot Hole  Plum Rusty Blotch  Nutrient Deficiencies: Nitrogen, Zinc, Potassium, Iron, Manganese, Copper, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Boron, Boron Toxicity  Herbicide Injury: Dichlobenil or Casoron, Glyphosate or Roundup, Norflurazon or Solicam, Oxyfluorfen or Goal, Simazine or Princep, 2,4-D)

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
Perennial Broadleaves
Biennial Broadleaves
Winter Annual Grasses
Winter Annual Broadleaves
Summer Annual Grasses
Summer Annual Broadleaves
Cover Crops

Vertebrates

Managing Vertebrate Pests
Ground Squirrels
Pocket Gophers
Voles (Meadow Mice)
Black-tailed Jackrabbit, Cottontail and Brush Rabbits
Mule Deer
Birds

References

Glossary

Appendix I. Bloom Stages of Stone Fruits

Appendix II. Degree-Day Reference Tables

Index

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Integrated Pest Management for Stone Fruits
Publication 3389 - Published 1999
Price $35.00 - 264 pages - ISBN 1-879906-36-8

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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