Integrated Pest Management for Stone Fruits
Integrated Pest Management for Stone Fruits

Author: Larry L. Strand

Publisher: University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781879906365

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The most complete guide available for managing pest problems in apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches, plums, and prunes. An indispensable guide to establishing a pest management program, diagnosing pest problems, identifying and using beneficial insects, and establishing new orchards. Includes information on training and pruning, irrigation scheduling, scheduling management activities, soil and tissue sampling, pheromone mating disruption, relative toxicity of pesticides to natural enemies and honey bees, organically acceptable pest control options, vertebrae pest control options within the ranges of endangered species.

Harry E. Burke and John M. Miller, Pioneers in Western Forest Entomology
Harry E. Burke and John M. Miller, Pioneers in Western Forest Entomology

Author: Boyd E. Wickman

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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This history was compiled from the memoirs, diaries, and other personal documents of the two forest entomologists in charge of the first forest insect laboratories on the west coast. It traces the lives of the two pioneers from 1902 to 1952 as they pursued their careers in the USDA Bureau of Entomology, Division of Forest Insect Investigations. Cooperative bark beetle control projects with the USDA Forest Service, Park Service, and private timber owners guided much of their early activities. Later, when the laboratories were located on university campuses, cooperative research was undertaken with Forest Service Research Stations. The focus shifted to more basic research and, particularly, studies on the silvicultural management of bark beetle populations.