Fact Sheets
Pest Management
The techniques of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Total Crop Management (TCM) offer a practical way for growers to maintain profitable crop production while effectively managing pests. Growers who practice IPM manage their crops by assessing pest problems and utilizing many different management options - cultural, physical, mechanical, chemical and biological. Regular crop inspection can alert growers to developing pest and cultural problems while they are still minor and can be easily manged. Early detection and intervention is the foundation of any IPM program. The following fact sheets provide information to better manage pests on floriculture crops.
Current pesticide and integrated pest management recommendations can be found in the New England Greenhouse Floriculture Guide: A Management Guide for Insects, Diseases, Weeds and Growth Regulators
General | Insects | Diseases | Weeds | Animals
General
- Greenhouse IPM Monitoring Report For

- IPM Scouting and Decision Making
- Where to Find Organic Information
- Pest Management for Vegetable Bedding Plants
- Pest Management for Herb Bedding Plants Grown in the Greenhouse

- Biological Control in Greenhouses: Preparing for Spring Crops

Insects and Mites
- Reviewing Western Flower Thrips and Tospoviruses
- Western Flower Thrips Control in Spring Bedding Plants: Which Formulation of Mites is Best?
- Fungus Gnats and Shore Flies
- Managing Aphids
- A Grower's Guide to Using Biological Control for Silverleaf Whitefly on Poinsettias in the N.E. United States
- Insect Problems in Commercial Production of Outdoor Cut Flowers
- Natural Enemies for Greenhouse Pests – Part I: How to Use Living Organisms for Pest Control
- Part II: Parasites and Predators
- Part III: Selection and Buying of Natural Enemies Species
- Pest Management in Retail Greenhouses
- MA Grower Achieves Whitefly Control on Poinsettias with Biological Control at $0.10 a Plant
- Tarnished Plant Bug - Field Grown Cut Flowers
- Lily Leaf Beetle
Diseases and Their Control
- State and Federal Regulations Governing Plant Pests in Massachusetts
- Chrysanthemum White Rust
- Chrysanthemum Diseases
- Diagnosing Plant Diseases of Floricultural Crops
- Managing Edema on Spring Crops
- Botrytis Blight of Greenhouse
Crops
- Botrytis on Cut Flowers
- Reducing Humidity in the Greenhouse
- Bacterial Diseases of Geranium
- Bacterial Blight of Geranium
- Damping-off of Bedding Plants and Vegetables
- Fuchsia Rust
- Rust Diseases of Ornamental Crops
- Root Diseases of Greenhouse Crops
- Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus and Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
- Pest Management for Vegetable Bedding Plants
- Pest Management for Herb Bedding Plants Grown in the Greenhouse
- Revisiting the Use of Virus Indicator Plants
- IPM Scouting and Decision Making
- Daylily Rust
- Daylily Rust and Daylily Streak
- Southern Bacterial Wilt
- Diagnostic Test Kits
- Downy Mildews of Ornamental Plants
- Leaf Spot Diseases of Floricultural Crops
- Powdery Mildew Diseases of Ornamental Plants





