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Pest Management and Biological Control

• Natural Enemies Handbook, An Illustrated Guide to Biological Pest Control HIGHLY RECOMMENDED This practical guide draws on the experience and knowledge of more than 60 experts from the University of California and beyond. 154 pages Publication 3386 - Published 1998

• IPM in Practice, Principles and Methods of Integrated Pest Management This book will help pest management professionals apply the principles of IPM to the many different environments in which they work, such as agricultural crops, urban landscapes, greenhouse, forests, rights-of-way and other managed ecosystems. 296 pages - ISBN 1-879906-50-3 Published 2001

• Greenhouse IPM with an Emphasis on Biocontrols Free Download.  This manual was designed to help greenhouse growers implement biological control (biocontrol) and Integrated Pest Management (IPM). It begins with an introduction to IPM and its principles, information on starting an IPM/biocontrol program and using compatible pesticides, and then addresses many of the most common greenhouse pests and their biocontrols. The emphasis throughout is biocontrol. This manual is designed to educate commercial greenhouse operators, crop consultants, and IPM scouts to develop biocontrol systems for greenhouses that will maximize yields while reducing pesticide usage.

• Guidelines for Purchasing and Using Commercial Natural Enemies and Biopesticides in Florida and Other States - Free Download This guide provides assistance in selecting, purchasing and using commercially available natural enemies and biopesticides for managing accurately diagnosed pest problems.

• Manage Insects on Your Farm: A Guide to Ecological Strategies Free Download or Order Hard Copy here   Learn about the principles of ecologically based pest management and the strategies of farmers around the world to address insect problems. Minimize insect damage with wise soil management and identify beneficial insects to put these “good bugs” to work for you. Examples of successful pest management strategies sprinkled throughout the book will stimulate your imagination to develop a more complex, more diverse ecosystem on your farm.

• Ball Identification Guide to Greenhouse Pests and Beneficials  - Stanton Gill and John Sanderson Comprehensive guide to identifying arthropod pests and their natural enemies on crops grown in U.S. greenhouses. ISBN: 1-883052-17-3, 256 pages

• Biocontrol in Protected Culture -  Reference for biological control measures in greenhouses, shadehouses, and other protected environments. Chapters are devoted to general biocontrol theories and practices, as well as specific crops and pests. ISBN: 1-883052-39-4, 560 Pages

• Knowing and Recognizing: The Biology of Glasshouse Pests and Their Natural Enemies, Second Edition -  This publication covers IPM for greenhouse crops, both vegetable and ornamental. Monitoring, sanitation, biological controls, biorational pesticides, insect growth regulators, and disease control methods are discussed. Tables include information on the newest biorational pesticides and biological control organisms.  288 pp. Hardcover

• Beneficials on Farmland: Identification and Management Guidelines - Free Download Identification and management guidelines' provides guidance on minimizing pesticide use by using natural enemies in an integrated pest management strategy.

• Biological Control of Insects and Other Pests of Greenhouse Crops - Free Download or Order Hard Copy here  Greenhouse managers wage ongoing battles with insect pests. This publication features hundreds of natural enemies that can help tip the scales in your favor while limiting the use of toxic chemicals on your crops. Packed with color pictures.

• Nematodes As BioControl Agents - This book aims to document and illustrate the major developments in the use of nematodes for biological control of insects and slugs. It has three major sections covering entomopathogenic nematodes, entomophilic nematodes, and slug-parasitic nematodes. Each of these sections discusses biology, commercial production, formulation and quality control, application technology, strategy and safety. Separate chapters are devoted to the application of nematodes in different cropping systems, and the efficacy of nematodes against specific pests. 480 pages ISBN13: 9780851990170

• Biological Pest Management for Interior Plantscapes - Book to help interior plantscapers deal with pest issues on the interior landscape. Steiner, Marilyn Y. and Don P. Elliot. 32 pages. Item/ISBN# 0919975127

• Farming for Pest Management  - Free Download Information on developing habitats for Beneficial Insects

• COINCIDE: The Orton System of Pest & Disease Management - Plan to protect the woody ornamental plants in your landscape or nursery, using this manual as a guide. You will be able to minimize your chemical use. Many insects are vulnerable to controls for only a short time, after which use of pesticides is ineffective. A huge array of woody plants were scientifically observed in the field by Don Orton, to determine the best possible time to spray for pest control.

• IRAC Mode of Action Classification Scheme for Pesticides 2012 - provides professionals with a guide to the selection of insecticides or acaricides for use in an effective and sustainable insecticide or acaricide resistance management (IRM) strategy.

Insect Rearing

• Principles and Procedures for Rearing High Quality Insects - 2009, 370 pages, 203 illustrations (25 color), charts, tables. This book provides an in-depth presentation of every primary element comprising professional insect rearing programs. Its scope includes the entire range of insect rearing from small-scale, table-top rearing to industrialscale, mass rearing but focuses on medium-scale rearing, and within medium-scale rearing on the use of artificial rather than natural diets. By applying the principles and procedures discussed here, one can establish new rearing programs or improve those that already exist. In addition, procedures are presented to either prevent or to diagnose and solve many of the problems that may arise in insect rearing.

Insects

• Aphid Key -Good key of common aphids. (photos)

• Aphids on the World's Plants - comprehensively revised and fully updated digital version of the 1994 publication.Free

• Bee Basics - An Introduction to Our Native Bees Free

• Caterpillars of Eastern North America Free

• Field Guide to Stink Bugs Free - from Virginia IPM 

• Common White Grubs Free - from OSU

• Pest Thrips of the United States Free Excellent guide to the thrips of economic importance. Done by the USDA-CSREES

• Mealybugs and Mealybug Look-Alikes of Southeastern United States Free -  Excellent guide to many of the mealybug species commercial growers and interiorscapers deal with.

• Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs -  This is the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the common insects and mites affecting yard and garden plants in North America. over 1,400 color photographs 656 pp.

• Hymenoptera of the World: An Identification Guide to Families (Goulet & Huber, eds.), 1993 Free

• Pests of the Landscape Trees and Shrubs, an Integrated Pest Management Guide - This comprehensive and authoritative book is an indispensable resource for landscape professionals, pest managers, and home gardeners. A UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program best seller, this book will help you diagnose and manage hundreds of insects, mites, weeds, plant diseases, nematodes, and other plant-care problems that damage landscape trees and shrubs. 501 pages - ISBN 1-879906-61-9

• Ladybugs of South Dakota Poster - Free Poster

• Ladybugs of Maine Poster - Free Poster

• Online Pictorial Key to Ladybugs Interactive Key

• Determinate evolution in the color-pattern of the lady-beetles - Free

• Basic Field Guide to Ladybugs - Free

• Thrips Key - Eleven species found in greenhouses

• Insects on Palms - Palms constitute one of the largest botanical families and include some of the world's most important economic plants. They are also unequalled as outdoor and indoor ornamental plants, and include many species that are essential components of the ecosystems of tropical and other warm regions. This book reviews the inter-relationships between palms and insects, emphasizing the similarities in different world regions. The host plants, distribution, and bionomics of representative insects are discussed according to their feeding sites on palms (foliage, flowers, fruits, and stems) and their taxonomic groups. Host and distribution records for the most extensively represented insect families on palms are tabulated. Pest management and field techniques are also covered. 400 pages ISBN-10: 0851993265

• Sticky Trap Monitoring of Insect Pests - Sticky traps are efficient tools for monitoring adults of many pests. This publication is a practical guide to using traps properly, recording and interpreting catches, and developing controls. It features high-quality magnified color photographs that show insects as they appear when caught in traps. For commercial greenhouse growers, this publication is also useful for pest managers of outdoor nurseries, field crops, and orchards.

• Life In A Colorado Water Garden The insects and other invertebrates associated with water features - FREE Online book with color photos of aquatic pests and beneficial insects. To order a paper copy contact Whitney Cranshaw at Colorado State University at bugbooksdirect@yahoo.com
• Destructive Turf Insects, 2nd Edition - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED From two of the country's foremost authorities in turfgrass entomology comes a comprehensive, up-to-date, practical guide to destructive turf insects.  Written in easy-to-read language and filled with photos and illustrations, Destructive Turf Insects, 2^nd Edition provides accurate biological information, aids for diagnosis and identification of cool and warm season turfgrass pests and offers multiple approaches for their control. Chapter organization leads the user to think about turf pests in relation to the segment of the turf environment which they occupy, providing a logical basis for selection of the appropriate approach to control when necessary. 148 pages ISBN 1-883751-14-4
• Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History - This lavishly illustrated guide will enable you to identify the caterpillars of nearly 700 butterflies and moths found east of the Mississippi. The more than 1,200 color photographs and two dozen line drawings include numerous exceptionally striking images. The giant silk moths, tiger moths, and many other species covered include forest pests, common garden guests, economically important species, and of course, the Mescal Worm and Mexican Jumping Bean caterpillars. Full-page species accounts cover almost 400 species, with up to six images per species including an image of the adult plus succinct text with information on distribution, seasonal activity, food plants, and life history. These accounts are generously complemented with additional images of earlier instars, closely related species, noteworthy behaviors, and other intriguing aspects of caterpillar biology. 496 pages
• Damselflies of the Northeast - A comprehensive identification guide to the damselflies of the Northeast, from Canada to Virginia.
• Tracks and Sign of Insects & Other Invertebrates - This ground-breaking reference offers details for identifying beetles, spiders, flies, ants, butterflies, moths, dragonflies, earwigs, mayflies, crickets, grasshoppers, centipedes, millipedes, scorpions, earthworms, slugs, lacewings, wasps, bees, damselflies, alderflies, crabs, and many other invertebrates from the sign they leave behind. It includes almost 1,000 color photos and some 2,000 species in 18 chapters. (Stackpole Books, 592 pages)
• Woody Ornamental Insect, Mite, and Disease Management. - From Penn State.  Free online book.

Horticulture

• Plant Health Care for Woody Ornamentals - The most comprehensive manual available on plant health maintenance, PHC practitioners will find this reference manual invaluable. Well-researched information is provided on the basic biology of woody plants, understanding stress and pest complexes, abiotic disorders and diseases, management of insect and vertebrate pests, weed management, and working with clients and the public. Included is a glossary, an index, applicable tables and charts, 150 color photos and nearly 100 illustrations. (©1997, soft cover, 223 pp., full-color photos, glossary, index, appendices. Developed in partnership with the USDA Forest Service.)