New England Pest Management Guide
New England Greenhouse Floriculture Guide and Photo Library
2011 - 2012 New England Greenhouse Floriculture Guide
A Management Guide for Insects, Diseases, Weeds and Growth Regulators (250+ Pages)
Just $30 (includes Mail Media shipping)
To order: Use this Order Form or order on-line through the UMass Extension Bookstore
Selected sample sections of the 2011-2012 guide are available below.
Section A: Pages 1-14
General Pesticide Information: Storage, Shelf Life, Disposal, Safety Equipment, Respirator, Cholinesterase, Effect of pH, Licensing, OSHA, Recordkeeping, Formulations/Equipment, Calculations, Spray Adjuvants, and more........
Section B: Pages 1-36 (of 112 pages)
Integrated Pest Management and Insect Biology: Scouting, Yellow Sticky Cards, Indicator Plants, Record keeping, Biological Control and Pest identification.
Section C: Pages 1-19 (of 41 pages)
Disease Section (Sample): Resistance Management, Sanitation, Cultural Practices and Causes of Plant Diseases.
Section D: Pages 1-6 (of 74 pages)
Growth Regulator Section (Sample): About Growth Regulators
Section E: Pages 1-2 (of 8 pages)
Weeds, Algae and Liverworts
About the Guide
A comprehensive guide for commercial production of greenhouse ornamentals with information on current pest management and growth regulators. Recommendations include IPM and biological control information for greenhouse crops.
This manual is a compilation of input from the members of the New England State University Extension Systems of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut and Rhode Island and Raymond Cloyd, Kansas State University..
New for 2011...
- 250+ pages of up-to-date recommendations for nonchemical and chemical management of greenhouse problems specific to New England, in a durable plastic comb binding.
- Practical guidance for using natural enemies to manage insects and mites.
- Expanded coverage of how to manage beetles on greenhouse crops.
- Details about how to use pesticides safely and effectively, and how to mitigate development of pesticide resistance.
- New plant growth regulator recommendations, including new generic PGRs and newly labeled
The Guide is designed to provide commercial growers with technical information on pest management (weeds, diseases and insects) and growth regulators. Because this is a publication written by professionals from throughout New England, and rewritten every two years, it reflects the current collective knowledge for greenhouse crops for this region. Published by New England Floriculture, Inc., sponsor of the Northeast Greenhouse Conference.
New England Greenhouse Photo Library
An on-line Photo Library is available that contains pictures and descriptions of plants problems associated with insects, mites, diseases, nutrition and cultural problems and also photos of best management practices.
The Photo Library supplements information in The New England Greenhouse Floriculture Guide. The Photo Library is funded by a grant from New England Floriculture Inc., the parent sponsor of the Northeast Greenhouse Conference.
