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A publication for apple growers:

A pocket guide for IPM scouting in Michigan
apples- updated 2004

New: Spanish translation of this guide - view information.

This plastic-coated scouting guide with its 3.25" X 5.0" pages fits in your pocket for easy use in the orchard. With pictures and descriptions, it will help you identify pests, beneficials, and pest damage. It also offers guidelines for monitoring and thresholds. (order information or view sample pages)
The following organisms are included in the guide:

 
Insects and mites 
Apple maggot
Apple rust mite
Codling moth
Dogwood borer
European red mite
Eyespotted bud moth
Green apple aphid
Japanese beetle
Obliquebanded leafroller
Oriental fruit moth
Plum curculio
Potato leafhopper
Redbanded leafroller
Rosy apple aphid
San Jose scale
Speckled green fruitworm
Spotted tentiform leafminer
Tarnished plant bug
Tufted apple bud moth
Twospotted spider mite
Variegated leafroller
White apple leafhopper
Wooly apple aphid
   
Beneficial organisms 
Agistemus fleschneri
Amblyseius fallacies

Assassin bugs
Beneficials, about
Braconid wasp
Damsel bug
Eulophid
Green lacewing
Lady beetle
Minute pirate bug
Orange cecidomyiid
Parasitoids
Parasitoid wasp families
Stethorus punctum
Syrphid fly
Tachinid fly
Typhlodromus pyri
Zetzellia mali
  Diseases 
Adapted Mills Table
Apple scab
Fire blight
Flyspeck
Powdery mildew
Sooty blotch
 

Other guides for scouting
View information on similar guides for stone fruit, blueberries, grapes, woody landscape plants, and natural enemies in field crops.

More information. The 68-page guide serves as a field supplement to more comprehensive references like Common Tree Fruit Pests by A.J. Howitt, and Diseases of Tree Fruits in the East by A. Jones and T. Sutton. Since researchers continue to update thresholds and monitoring information, the editors will be printing updates on sheets that can be attached to blank pages at the end of the guide.

The guide was compiled and edited by David Epstein, Michigan Apple IPM Implementation Project; and Larry J. Gut, MSU Entomology. It was produced as a part of the Michigan Apple Integrated Pest Management Implementation Project. Support was provided by: Center for Agricultural Partnerships, The Pew Charitable Trusts, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\ Office of Pesticide Programs, Gerber Products, Michigan Apple Committee, Michigan Apple Research Committee, Michigan IPM Alliance, and Michigan State University.

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The MSU IPM Program maintains this site as an access point to pest management information at MSU. The IPM Program is administered within the Department of Entomology, fueled by research from the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, delivered to citizens through MSU Extension, and proud to be a part of Project GREEEN.
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Updated: 06/21/06