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How to Manage Pests
UC Pest Management Guidelines
Citrus
Cultural and Other Practices that Affect Pests
(Reviewed 9/08,
updated 9/08)
In this Guideline:
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Planting site selection |
Scion cultivar |
Rootstock cultivar |
Pathogen-free nursery stock |
Planting method (e.g. planting high) |
Drainage |
Irrigation amount, frequency, and method |
Fertilization |
Avoiding mechanical injury |
Sanitation |
Windbreaks |
Weed and border vegetation control |
Cultivation |
Pruning extent and timing |
Skirt pruning |
Lesion excision |
Root crown excavate & dry |
Minimizing dust |
Harvest timing |
| Diseases |
| Alternaria rot |
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| Armillaria root rot |
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| bacterial blast |
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| Botrytis rot |
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| brown rot |
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| dry root rot |
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| Exocortis |
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| lemon sieve tube necrosis |
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| Phytophthora gummosis |
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| Phytophthora root rot |
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| Psorosis |
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| Septoria spot |
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| stubborn disease |
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| Tristeza disease complex |
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| Disorders |
| frost tolerance |
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| nutrient disorders |
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| salinity |
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| sunburn |
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| Invertebrates |
| ants |
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| aphids |
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| bean thrips |
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| brown garden snail |
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| California red scale and yellow Scale |
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| caterpillars |
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| citricola scale |
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| citrus leafminer |
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| citrus peelminer |
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| citrus red mite |
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| citrus thrips |
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| cottony cushion scale |
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| earwigs |
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| glassy-winged sharpshooter |
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| greenhouse thrips |
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| katydids |
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| mealybugs |
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| potato leafhopper |
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| purple scale |
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| Texas citrus mite |
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| twospotted spider mite |
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| whiteflies |
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| Yuma spider mite |
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| Nematodes |
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| Weeds |
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UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines: Citrus
UC ANR Publication 3441
General Pesticide Information
E. E. Grafton-Cardwell, Kearney Agricultural Center, Parlier
J. G. Morse, Entomology, UC Riverside
N. V. O‘Connell, UC Cooperative Extension, Tulare County
P. A. Phillips, UC IPM Program, UC Cooperative Extension, Ventura County
C. E. Kallsen, UC Cooperative Extension, Kern County
D. R. Haviland, UC Cooperative Extension, Kern County
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