Agronomic Crop Protection

Links to Pest Management Guidelines

The management of insects, pathogens and weeds is necessary to maximize yield quantity and quality. Below are links to the current UC ANR pest management guidelines for agronomic crops in California.

Alfalfa: http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/selectnewpest.alfalfa-hay.html

Corn: http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/selectnewpest.corn.html

Cotton: http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/selectnewpest.cotton.html

Dry beans: http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/selectnewpest.beans.html

Rice: http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/selectnewpest.rice.html

Small grains: http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/selectnewpest.small-grains.html

Here are additional links to specific pests, pathogens, and weeds of special concern including alfalfa weevils, whiteflies, lygus bug, dodder, field bindweed, dodder, stripe rust on wheat, and Fusarium Race 4.

Insects:

Alfalfa weevils, Hypera postica or Hypera brunneipennis:

http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/r1300511.html

http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PHENOLOGY/ma-alfalfa_weevil.html

http://alfalfa.ucdavis.edu/IrrigatedAlfalfa/pdfs/UCAlfalfa8295Insects_free.pdf

Alfalfa weevil, Hypera postica (Photo by Jack Kelly Clark)

Lygus bug, Lygus hesperus: 

http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/r114301611.html

Lygus bug, Lygus hesperus (Photo by Jack Kelly Clark)

Sticky cotton (cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii; Whiteflies, Bemisia spp.):

https://ccgga.org/sticky-cotton-efforts/

https://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/StickyCotton/StickyCotton.pdf

http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/r114300111.html

http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7401.html

https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/ipc/pinkbollworm/pbw_trapping.htm

Sweet potato (silverleaf) whitefly, Bemesia tabaci (Photo by Jack Kelly Clark)

Weeds:

Dodder, Cuscuta spp.:

http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/WEEDS/dodder.html

Dodder, Cuscuta pentagona (Photo by Joseph DiTomaso)

Field Bindweed, Convolvulus arvensis:

http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/WEEDS/field_bindweed.html

Field bindweed, Convolvulus arvensis (Photo by Lynn M Sosnoskie)

Pathogens:

Fusarium Race 4 on cotton:

http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/r114100311.html

http://cottoninfo.ucdavis.edu/files/266467.pdf

http://cottoninfo.ucdavis.edu/files/266468.pdf

https://ccgga.org/crd/fusarium-wilt-race-4-fusarium-oxysporum-f-sp-vasinfectum-race-4-fov4-research-progress-update/

http://cottoninfo.ucdavis.edu/files/134064.pdf

Fusarium Race 4 (Photo by Lynn M Sosnoskie)

Stripe rust on wheat, Puccinia striiformis:

http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/r730100511.html

http://www.californiawheat.org/growers/wheat-research/

  Stripe rust, Puccinia striiformis (Photo by Jack Kelly Clark)