Buglady's Favorite Books and Web Resources
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 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.
- Arthropod Pest Management in Greenhouses and Interiorscapes Free Download
- 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 - 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
- Interior Landscape Pest Management
- Microbial Control of Insect and Mite Pests: From Theory to Practice
Farmscaping
- Farmscaping Techniques for Managing Insect Pests - Farmscaping is a holistic (whole-farm) ecological approach to pest management—particularly for insects. An entomologist, Dr. Robert Bugg coined the term ‘farmscaping’ - defining it as the “deliberate use of specific plants and landscaping techniques to attract and conserve ‘beneficials’.” It refers to the arrangement of plants used for economic purposes (cash crops) and insectary plants used for food and habitat for beneficial insects. Sometimes, the term “farmscaping” is broadened beyond just augmentation of insectary plants to include using trap crops—i.e. plants that are more attractive to the pest, established adjacent to the cash crop.
- Farming for Pest Management - Free Download Information on developing habitats for Beneficial Insects
Insect & Mites
- 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
- Field Guide to Stink Bugs Free
- Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America
- Common White Grubs Free
- Pest Thrips of the United States
- An Illustrated Guide to Plant Abnormalities Caused by Eriophyid Mites in North America Free
- Mealybugs and Mealybug Look-Alikes of Southeastern United States Free
- 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
- Identification of Diabrotica species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from North and Central America
- Ladybugs of South Dakota Poster - Free Poster
- Ladybugs of Maine Poster - Free Poster
- Online Pictorial Key to Ladybugs Interactive Key
- Basic Field Guide to Ladybugs
- Simple key to important thrips pests of Canadian greenhouses
- Thrips Key - Eleven species found in greenhouses
- Thrips ID
- Lucid Key to Insects - Helps you ID your insects
- 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
- 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)
- Field Crop and Forage Pests and their Natural Enemies in Western Canada
- Beneficial and Pest Larval Species Common to Broccoli on the California Central Coast - Good syrphid identification.
- The Soil Animal Handbook Maxwell Helmberger & Kyle Wickings, Cornell University
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