A LOW-SPRAY APPLE-PEST-MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR SMALL ORCHARDS

1985 ◽  
Vol 117 (5) ◽  
pp. 581-585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Prokopy
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Rhagoletis Pomonella ◽  
Apple Trees ◽  
Early Season ◽  
Disease Resistant ◽  
Petroleum Oil

AbstractFrom 1981 to 1984, a low-spray management program was employed against injurious arthropods on the 40 disease-resistant apple trees in my experimental orchard in Massachusetts. The program consisted of an annual early-season application of petroleum oil followed by 2 applications of phosmet (1 at petal fall and another 10–14 days later). Visual traps were used to suppress Rhagoletis pomonella flies. For all years combined, a mean of 89.7% of fruit sampled at harvest in this orchard was free of insect injury compared with 0% uninjured fruit on neighboring unsprayed trees. Populations of foliar-feeding pests never reached injurious levels.

scholarly journals APPLE MAGGOT (DIPTERA: TEPHRITIDAE) MONITORING IN AN APPLE PEST MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

1979 ◽  
Vol 111 (5) ◽  
pp. 621-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. Reissig ◽  
J. P. Tette
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Rhagoletis Pomonella ◽  
Seasonal Activity

AbstractTraps were used to monitor the emergence and seasonal activity of apple maggot flies, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh), in unsprayed habitats, and in selected commercial blocks and farms in the New York apple pest management program to determine the need and timing of control sprays. An average of 69, 43, and 43% fewer sprays and 71, 47, and 57% less insecticides were applied for apple maggot control, respectively, in single blocks monitored in 1976, 1977, and farms monitored in 1977, than in representative orchards in the same areas using regular commercial control schedules.

Management of the Apple Maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh) (Diptera: Tephritidae), in Disease-Resistant Dwarf and Semi-Dwarf Apple Trees

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 684-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. Reissig ◽  
R. W. Weires ◽  
C. G. Forshey ◽  
W. L. Roelofs ◽  
R. C. Lamb ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rhagoletis Pomonella ◽  
Apple Trees ◽  
Disease Resistant

SEX PHEROMONES AND SUPPRESSION OF THE CODLING MOTH (LEPIDOPTERA: OLETHREUTIDAE)

1978 ◽  
Vol 110 (7) ◽  
pp. 781-783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elmer A. C. Hagley
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Sex Pheromones ◽  
Codling Moth ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Mass Trapping ◽  
Apple Trees ◽  
Economic Control ◽  
Mature Apple ◽  
Insecticide Sprays

Several authors (Charmillot and Baggiolini 1975; Proverbs et al. 1975; Roelofs et al. 1976; MacLellan 1976) have stated that mass-trapping male codling moths with sex pheromones did not provide economic control of this pest. MacLellan (1976), however, reported suppression of codling moth populations in unsprayed orchards 2-3 ha in size and Madsen et al. (1976) obtained similar results in orchards in which sprays were not applied specifically for codling moth control. In 1975 and 1976 similar studies were undertaken in three 0.5–0.75 ha plots (A, B, C) of mature apple trees at Vineland (Hagley 1970). Plots A and B had not received insecticide sprays from 1969 to 1974 and had relatively high codling moth infestation levels (Table I). Plot C had been on a pest management program since 1971.

Electron investigations of rhabdovirus-like particles in mexican bean beetles and crickets

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 378-379
Author(s):  
J. R. Adams ◽  
G. J Tompkins ◽  
A. M. Heimpel ◽  
E. Dougherty
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Acheta Domesticus ◽  
Epilachna Varivestis ◽  
House Cricket ◽  
Similar Morphology ◽  
Bean Beetle

As part of a continual search for potential pathogens of insects for use in biological control or on an integrated pest management program, two bacilliform virus-like particles (VLP) of similar morphology have been found in the Mexican bean beetle Epilachna varivestis Mulsant and the house cricket, Acheta domesticus (L. ).Tissues of diseased larvae and adults of E. varivestis and all developmental stages of A. domesticus were fixed according to procedures previously described. While the bean beetles displayed no external symptoms, the diseased crickets displayed a twitching and shaking of the metathoracic legs and a lowered rate of activity.Examinations of larvae and adult Mexican bean beetles collected in the field in 1976 and 1977 in Maryland and field collected specimens brought into the lab in the fall and reared through several generations revealed that specimens from each collection contained vesicles in the cytoplasm of the midgut filled with hundreds of these VLP's which were enveloped and measured approximately 16-25 nm x 55-110 nm, the shorter VLP's generally having the greater width (Fig. 1).

scholarly journals Conserving carnivorous arthropods: an example from early-season cranberry (Ericaceae) flooding

2018 ◽  
Vol 150 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-273
Author(s):  
J. van Zoeren ◽  
C. Guédot ◽  
S.A. Steffan
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Natural Enemies ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Cultural Control ◽  
Generalist Predators ◽  
Early Season ◽  
Insecticide Application ◽  
Insecticide Spray

AbstractBiological control plays an important role in many integrated pest management programmes, but can be disrupted by other control strategies, including chemical and cultural controls. In commercial cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Aiton; Ericaceae) production, a spring flood can replace an insecticide application, providing an opportunity to study the compatibility of the flood (a cultural control) with biological control. We suspect that chemical controls will tend to reduce the number of natural enemies, while the flood, through removal of detritus and detritivores, may cause generalist predators to prey-switch to consume proportionally more pest individuals. We measured the abundance of herbivores (Lepidoptera), detritivores, Arachnida, and parasitoids (Hymenoptera) every week for six weeks in Wisconsin (United States of America) cranberry beds following either an insecticide spray or a cultural control flood. We found that detritivore populations rapidly declined in both flood and spray treatments; conversely, carnivore populations (spiders and parasitoids) were more abundant in the flooded beds than in sprayed beds. Populations of key cranberry pests were similar between flooded and sprayed beds. Our results showed that early-season flooding preserved more natural enemies than an insecticide application. This increase in natural enemy abundance after the flood may allow for greater continuity in herbivore suppression, potentially providing a basis for long-term cranberry pest management.

scholarly journals Economic Evaluation of Landscape Integrated Pest Management Programs in Banyumas Regency, Central Java, Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.29) ◽  
pp. 469
Author(s):  
Hani Perwitasari ◽  
Irham . ◽  
Slamet Hartono ◽  
Suhatmini Hardyastuti
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Production Cost ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Management Program ◽  
T Test ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Financial Feasibility ◽  
Technology Applications

The massive use of chemicals in food production process has adversely affected the aspect of cost, ecology and health in particular. Landscape Integrated Pest Management (LIPM) Program is one of the technology applications targeted to minimize the chemicals. In Indonesia, there were only 6 regencies which applied LIPM, which included Banyumas regency. This study primarily aims at comparing production costs, productivity, revenue, profit and financial feasibility between LIPM and non-LIPM rice farms. The researchers collected primary and secondary data during the investigation. They purposively chose Pliken Village as the research object as it is the only village implementing LIPM. Meanwhile, sample was selected by random sampling methods involving LIPM and non- LIPM farmers with 30 respondents for each. Independent-samples T test was exerted to compare productivity, revenue, cost, profit and financial feasibility. The results indicate that productivity, revenue, profit and financial feasibility farming with LIPM were higher than the non-LIPM farming. Moreover, the production cost in the LIPM farming was lower than the production cost of the non-LIPM farming. The independent T-test pinpoints that the total revenue indicator and profit were significant. In other words, it may become reference to encourage farmers to apply Landscape Integrated Pest Management Program for sustainable agriculture 

Pilot Insect Pest Management Program for Soybean in Southern Brazil1

1977 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 659-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kogan ◽  
S. G. Turnipseed ◽  
M. Shepard ◽  
E. B. De Oliveira ◽  
A. Borgo
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Insect Pest ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Insect Pest Management

scholarly journals Cover crops improve early season natural enemy recruitment and pest management in cotton production

2020 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. 104149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carson Bowers ◽  
Michael Toews ◽  
Yangxuan Liu ◽  
Jason M. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Cover Crops ◽  
Natural Enemy ◽  
Cotton Production ◽  
Early Season
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