This plastic-coated scouting guide with its 3.5" X 6.0" pages is designed to fit in your pocket for easy field use. With color pictures and descriptions, it will help you to identify common pests and their damage, beneficials, common diseases, injury caused by deer, voles and rabbits, and abiotic plant injury. Guidelines for scouting and management are also given. (ordering information or view sample pages) Click here to view this publication on-line.The following are included in the guide:

Insects and mites
Aphids
Ash plant bug
Blackvine weevil
Bronze birch borer
Cottony maple scale
Eastern tent caterpillar
Emerald ash borer
Euonymus scale
European pine sawfly
Fall webworm
Flatheaded apple tree borer
Fletcher scale
Gall-producing mites
Gypsy moth

Honeylocust plant bug
Honeylocust leafhopper
Honeylocust spider mite
Japanese beetle
Juniper scale
Leafmining sawflies- alder, birch, elm and hawthorn
Oystershell scale
Pine needle scale
Potato leafhopper
Slug sawflies
Spruce gall- Cooley and eastern
Spruce spider mites
Two-lined chestnut borer

Diseases
Anthracnose of shade trees
Apple scab
Beech bark disease
Black spot
Botryosphaeria canker
Crown gall
Dutch elm disease
Cytospora canker
Dogwood anthracnose
Fireblight

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This 120-page guide is intended as a field supplement to standard references such as Insects That Feed on Trees and Shrubs by W.T. Johnson and H.H. Lyon, and Diseases of Trees and Shrubs by W. Sinclair, H.H. Lyon and W.T. Johnson.

Compiled and edited by: Diane Brown-Rytlewski, MSU IPM Program
Graphic designer: Rebecca Thompson, MSU IPM Program