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Integrated Pest Management for Citrus

Publication 3303 - 144 pages - $32.00

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Integrated Pest Management for Citrus is the best-illustrated guide available for the prevention, identification, monitoring, and management of citrus pests. This book also includes substantial information on citrus production practices, especially as they relate to preventing pest problems. Extensively revised during its second edition, this book presents pest management information and recommendations from the University of California. More than University of California researchers, Cooperative Extension specialists, farm advisors, and pest control professionals contributed to this volume. Photographs, figures, tables, and text thoroughly detail information vital to the successful production of high quality citrus fruit. Revised Second edition revisions emphasize: improved cultural controls selective pesticides effective use of natural enemies

Updated Information
Substantially revised sections in the second edition include:

• California red scale
• Citrus thrips
• Citrus red mite
• Citrus bud mite
• Fuller rose beetle
• Herbicide efficacy tables
• Insecticide toxicity to natural enemies
• and much more!

More Than 160 Color Photos
More than 160 color photographs and over 60 drawings, charts, and black-and-white photographs will help you to identify and manage nearly 90 different pest problems in citrus, including insects, mites, diseases, weeds, nematodes, and vertebrates. Important natural enemies of pest insects and mites are also covered here.

A Best Buy

"a best buy in citrus literature today."
--California-Arizona Farm Press review of IPM for Citrus

"Written in clear, succinct language with a minimum of technical terms..."
--Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America

Integrated pest management manuals are indispensable tools for growers, consultants, and pest management instructors. Each book presents an ecologically sound IPM approach to solving pest problems.

Comprehensive chapters on insects and mites, pathogens, weeds, nematodes, and vertebrates cover each significant pest, its identification, biology, and management. Up to 100 pest species are detailed in each book. Monitoring methods, treatment thresholds, selective use of pesticides, biological controls, and cultural practices are thoroughly explained and illustrated. Crop growth and development are reviewed. Numerous line drawings and charts and 150 to 250 excellent color photographs illustrate each manual.

List of Contents

Integrated Pest Management for Citrus

The Citrus Tree: Development and Growth Requirements (Seasonal Cycle of Citrus  Growth Requirements)

Managing Pests in Citrus

Pest Identification
Field Monitoring (Monitoring Pests  Monitoring Weather  Accumulating Degree-Days)
Control Action Guidelines
Management Methods (Scion Cultivar and Rootstock Selection  Soil and Water Management: Irrigation Methods-Scheduling Irrigations  Fertilizing  Frost Protection  Harvest  Pruning  Ground Cover  Biological Control  Pesticides: Pesticide Application-Problems Associated With Pesticide Use)

Vertebrates

Management Methods
Pocket Gophers
California Ground Squirrel
Meadow Mice
Black-Tailed Jackrabbit
Other Vertebrates in Citrus

Insects, Mites and Snails

The San Joaquin Valley
The Coastal-Intermediate and Interior Districts
The Desert Valleys
Monitoring Insects and Mites (Monitoring Methods)
Scale Insects (California Red Scale  Purple Scale  Citricola Scale  Brown Soft Scale  Black Scale  Cottony Cushion Scale)
Citrus Thrips
Orangeworms (Monitoring Orangeworms  Key to Orangeworms in California Citrus  Citrus Cutworm  Fruittree Leafroller  Orange Tortrix  Omnivorous Leafroller  Western Tussock Moth  Amorbia  Pink Scavenger Caterpillar  Anise Swallowtail  Citrus Looper) Mites (Citrus Red Mite  Twospotted Mite  Broad Mite  Citrus Bud Mite  Citrus Rust Mite  Other Mites in Citrus: Flat Mite, Yuma Spider Mite, Sixspotted Mite, Lewis Spider Mite)
Ants
Katydids
Mealybugs
Whiteflies
Other Insect Pests (Potato Leafhopper  Aphids  Fuller Rose Beetle  Grasshoppers  Fruit Flies)
Brown Garden Snail

Diseases

Monitoring and Diagnosis of Citrus Diseases
Prevention and Management
Symptoms on Roots (Phytophthora Root  Rot Dry Root Rot  Armillaria Root Rot)
Symptoms on the Trunk (Phytophthora Gummosis  Exocortis  Psorosis  Other Trunk Diseases and Disorders (Shell Bark and Dry Bark  Bud Union Disorders  Sunburn)
Symptoms on Fruit (Brown Rot  Alternaria Rot  Septoria Spot  Other Diseases and Disorders of Fruit (Anthracnose Tearstain  Blue and Green Mold Disease  Botrytis Rot  Chimeras  Frost Damage  Rind Stipple of Grapefruit  Sunburn  Wind Injury  Spray Injury)
Symptoms on Leaves and Twigs (Citrus Blast  Botrytis Rot  Chimeras  Twig Dieback  Wind Injury  Mesophyll Collapse  Frost Damage  Spray Injury)
Mineral Deficiencies and Toxicities
Symptoms Affecting Growth Habit and Yield (Stubborn Disease  Tristeza Disease Complex  Lemon Sieve Tube Necrosis)

Nematodes

Description and Biology
Damage
Guidelines for Managing Nematodes

Weeds

Guidelines for Managing Weeds (Prevention  Control Methods  Monitoring and Control Program)
Weed Species Common in Citrus Orchards (Bermudagrass  Dallisgrass  Field Bindweed  Nutsedges  Johnsongrass  Bearded Sprangletop  Barnyardgrass  Spotted Spurge  Turkey Mullein)

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How to Order

Integrated Pest Management for Citrus
Second Edition
Publication 3303- Published 1991
Price $32.00 - 144 pages - ISBN 0-931876-98-2

This publication is available from the UC ANR Communication Services catalog. It is also available by mail; by telephone; at the DANR 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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