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| A pocket guide for IPM scouting in stone fruits New: Spanish translation of this guide - view information. This plastic-coated scouting guide with its 3.25" by 5.0" pages fits in your pocket for easy use in the orchard. With pictures and descriptions, it will help you identify pests, beneficial organisms, 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: |
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| Insects and mites American plum borer Aphids Black cherry aphid Black cherry fruit flies Borers Cherry fruit flies Cherry fruitworm Cherry leafminer European red mite Green fruitworm Green peach aphid Green stink bug Japanese beetle Lesser peachtree borer |
Mineola moth Mites Oriental fruit moth Peach bark beetle Peachtree borer Pear slug/sawfly Plum curculio Plum rust mite Shothole borer Rose chafer Tarnished plant bug Twospotted spider mite Western flower thrips White apple leafhopper |
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| Diseases Alternaria fruit rot American brown rot Armillaria root rot Bacterial canker Bacterial spot Black knot of plum Cherry leaf spot Crown gall European brown rot Fusicoccum canker |
Gummosis Peach leaf curl Peach perennial canker Peach scab Phytophthora root/ crown rot Powdery mildew of cherry Powdery mildew Rusty spot of peach X- Disease |
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| 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 |
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Other guides for scouting The 90-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. The guide was compiled by David Epstein, MSU IPM Program; Larry J. Gut, MSU Entomology; Alan Jones and Kimberly Maxson-Stein, MSU Plant Pathology. Production costs were supported in part by special funding provided to the MSU IPM Program by: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture - CSREES, the Michigan Cherry Committee, and the MSU Fruit Area of Expertise Team. |
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