PlantAmerica – The Growers Network

Flower and nursery crop growers have a new, essential tool for their industry. It’s called the Integrated Pest Management for Floriculture and Nurseries.

This book has just been published and a 422-page reference manual developed by the University of California.

“Floriculture and nursery managers and increasingly adopting environmentally friendly integrated pest management (IPM) principles and tactics,” said Steve Dreistadt, principal author of the book. “This book show producers how to recognize and prevent damage to bulbs, cut flowers, potted flowering plants, foliage plants, bedding plants, and ornamental trees and shrubs the IPM way.”

Integrated Pest Management for Floriculture and Nurseries is loaded with useful features. For instance, handy crop tables provide a symptom-based guide for accurately diagnosing problems and give the recommended control for problems affecting 120 major flower and foliage species. More than 3000 color photographs depict a broad range of plants, pests and techniques. Illustrations are used to portray step-by-step how-to’s. A list of suppliers and a comprehensive index round out the manual, making it an indispensable guide for growers, farm advisors, IPM scouts, pesticide applicators, pest control advisors and students.

Benefits of IPM include reducing pesticide resistance; minimizing phytotoxicity and disruptions caused by pesticide reentry intervals; and reducing the costs of pesticide purchases, application labor and regulatory compliance.

The book can be purchased directly from the University of California. The price is $45 plus tax and shipping. Order by phone at 800-994-8849 or online at http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu.