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Funding Program:
IPM Partnership Grants |
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Project Title:
A Field Guide to Tree Fruit Insect Pests, Beneficials, and Diseases of Eastern North America |
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Lead State: NY Lead Organization: Cornell University |
| Undesignated Funding: $10,000 |
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Start Date: Apr-01-2004 End Date: Mar-31-2005 |
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Pests Involved: insects, mites, diseases |
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Site/Commodity: tree fruit, apples, apricots, cherry, cherries, nectarines, peaches, plums |
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Area of Emphasis: beneficial insects |
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Summary:
The northeastern US is affected by a suite of tree fruit insect pests, diseases, and beneficial species that is among the largest of the world's production areas. Growers may typically need to be familiar with as many as 25 key species during a given season, plus possibly dozens of additional secondary species on a less frequent but still predictable basis. There are a number of excellent information resources and references available to help familiarize growers, consultants and orchard managers with diseases, pests and beneficial species for the purpose of making informed management decisions; however, most are either too detailed, incomplete, or cumbersome to be used as a convenient field identification guide in the variety of fruit crops likely to be found on modern commercial farms. This project will result in the publication of a comprehensive yet easy-to-use field guide on over 130 arthropod species and 70 diseases occurring in apples, pears, cherries, peaches and nectarines, apricots and plums in the US and Canada east of the Mississippi. For each entry, a single page will contain the species' classification, descriptive biological information, principal period of activity or occurrence, feeding habits or hosts, and number of generations per year, accompanied by high-quality photographs of the adult, immature, and damage (for arthropods) or disease symptoms. Diagnostic keys will help the reader correctly identify pests and diseases on the basis of damage symptoms; a cross-referencing index and a glossary will facilitate finding and explaining the entries. The book will be 200+ pages, and printed in a 4.25 x 7.25-inch "pocket-size" format that is easy to carry.
Objectives: Produce a spiral-bound "pocket" format field guide to a comprehensive list of insect, mite, and disease pests and beneficial species occurring in all the major tree fruit crops of eastern North America. The guide will present high-quality color photographs of each species and its damage on the same page with information on its occurrence, distribution, feeding habits, physical description, biology and means of control. Proposal Final Report 2005 Ad for Publication Highlighted in February 2008 IPM Insights |
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