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Integrated Pest Management for Cotton in the Western Region of the United States

Publication 3305 - 164 pages - $30.00

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This is the most comprehensive guide available for pest management in cotton in the western states, and an essential resource for all cotton production professionals. This newly revised edition of Integrated Pest Management for Cotton in the Western United States offers the most up-to-date pest management information available from the University of California. More than 60 researchers and Cooperative Extension specialists from the Universities of California and Arizona, New Mexico State University, the USDA Agricultural Research Service, and private industry contributed to this manual. Tables and figures have been designed to include the most up-to-date information possible.

Indispensable Guide
This 163-page manual is an indispensable guide for:

• Latest information on new varieties for the Southwest
• Plant mapping as it relates to IPM
• New information on water management
• Current pesticide resistance information
• New sections on cotton aphid and silverleaf whitefly
• Revised information on pink bollworm and boll weevil
• New monitoring methods for lygus bug
• New information on Fusarium wilt, Verticillium wilt, and seedling diseases
• Cotton varieties with disease-resistance, including NemX
• Weighted nematode rating technique
• Up-to-date herbicide information
• New section on velvetleaf
• Dry mulch planting
• and much more!

More Than 180 Color Photos
More than 180 color photographs and many detailed drawings will help you identify nearly 100 different pest problems in cotton, including insects, mites, diseases, weeds, nematodes, and vertebrates, as well as the common natural enemies of pest insects and mites.

Beautifully Illustrated

"Beautifully illustrated....the color plates are worth the price alone!"
--CAPCA Newsletter, reviewing the IPM Manuals

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

List of Contents

Integrated Pest Management for Cotton

Development and Growth Requirements of the Cotton Plant

Development
Growth Requirements
Energy Resources and Yield
Monitoring Growth

Managing Pests in Cotton

Pest Identification
Monitoring
Control Action Guidelines
Management Methods (Biological Control  Resistant Varieties Organic Cotton Production  Cultural Practices  Pesticides)

Vertebrates

Insects and Mites

Monitoring
General Predators (Bigeyed Bugs  Minute Pirate Bugs Lacewings  Damsel Bugs  Assassin Bugs  Collops Beetles)

Pests that Damage Squares and Bolls
Bollworm/Tobacco Budworm
Pink Bollworm
Other Caterpillars that Injure Fruit
Key to Caterpillars and Similar Larvae on Cotton in the Western Region
Boll Weevil
Lygus Bugs
Other Plant Bugs
Stink Bugs
Foliage Pests
Spider Mites
Beet Armyworm/Fall Armyworm
Yellowstriped Armyworms
Cabbage Looper/Alfalfa Looper
Saltmarsh Caterpillar
Cotton Leafperforator
Leafrollers, Leaftiers, and Webworms
Whitelined Sphinx
Silverleaf Whitefly
Cotton Aphid
Leafhoppers
Bean Thrips
Seedling Pests (Cutworms  Thrips  Darkling Beetles Seedcorn Maggot  Brown Wheat Mite  Field Crickets  Wireworms False Chinch Bug  Flea Beetles and Cucumber Beetles)
Miscellaneous Insects

Nematodes

Description and Biology
Symptoms and Damage
Management

Diseases

Monitoring and Diagnosis
Seedling Diseases
Verticillium Wilt
Fusarium Wilt/Nematode Complex
Phymatotrichum Root Rot
Boll Rots
Aflatoxin Contamination
Bacterial Blight
Southwestern Cotton Rust
Alternaria Leaf Spot
Leaf Crumple
Potassium Deficiency
Toxicities (Air Pollutants  Herbicides)

Weeds

Monitoring
Crop Rotation
Field Selection and Preparation
Dry Mulch Planting
Hand Weeding and Sanitation
Cultivation
Herbicides

Major Weed Species in Cotton (Nutsedges  Johnsongrass Bermudagrass  Field Bindweed  Silverleaf Nightshade  Annual Nightshades  Groundcherries  Annual Morninglories  Velvetleaf  Other Broadleaved Weeds  Annual Grasses)

References

Glossary

Cotton Fruit Development (photo sequence)

How to Order

Integrated Pest Management for Cotton in the Western Region of the United States
Second Edition
Publication 3305 - Published 1996
Price $30.00 - 164 pages - ISBN 1-879906-30-9

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