Pest Management
New England Greenhouse Floriculture Guide and Photo Library
New Guide Now Available!!
2009 - 2010 New England Greenhouse Floriculture Guide
A Management Guide for Insects, Diseases, Weeds and Growth Regulators
(200+ Pages)
The complete guide is available from
The UMass Extension Bookstore
Selected sample sections of the 2009-2010 guide are available below.
General Pesticide Information: Storage,
Shelf Life, Disposal, Safety Equipment, Respirator, Cholinesterase, Effect
of pH, Licensing, OSHA, Recordkeeping, Formulations/Equipment, Calculations,
Spray Adjuvants, Groundwater Protection, Worker Protection Standard, Cleaning
and Maintaining PPE, Pesticide Safety Training, Notification of Workers,
Greenhouse Entry Restrictions
Section
A: Pages 1-14
Disease Section (Sample):
Section C: Pages 1-19
Growth Regulator Section (Sample):
About Growth
Regulators
Section
D: Pages 1-7 of the guide
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. New this year...The section "Integrated Pest Management and Insect Biology" including details on using biological control was written by Raymond Cloyd, Kansas State University.
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 New England Greenhouse Conference.
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 New England Greenhouse Conference.
