Lynn M Sosnoskie
2145 Wardrobe Avenue
Merced, CA 95341
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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
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)