Pecan IPM Toolbox

Most of the tools below are offered in two viewing formats, Flash and, for those devices that don't support Flash, PDF. To take advantage of all the new features of PDF, make sure you are using the latest version of Adobe Reader.

Introduction to Pecan IPM
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The role of Integrated pest management in helping growers reduce pest management costs. Topics include pest management approaches, the interdisciplinary roles of horticulture, entomology and plant pathology in strengthening integrated pest management tactics.

Pecan Basics
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An overview of the basics -- the importance of the pecan tree, pecan production in the U.S., pecan history and arthropod management through that history, from the 1800's through 1990. (Don't worry, it's just the highlights. And there's no quiz.)

Horticultural Practices
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In horticulture, cultural and physical practices are those activities involved in caring for plants, such as site and cultivar selection, strengthening the landscape so that conditions are favorable for the tree and orchard but unfavorable to pests, creating habitats for beneficial insects, weeding, irrigation, nutrition, etc.

Beneficial Insects
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Beneficial organisms fall into two main groups - predators and parasites. This presentation discusses description and behavior of beneficial insects in the pecan orchard.

Pest Profiles
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Discussion of the major insect pests in the pecan orchard, how they relate to pecan development stages, grouped by pests of nuts, foliage, and trunks and branches.

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Insect Monitoring & Control
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Some 20+ species of insects can inflict significant losses to pecan crops. Proper orchard monitoring can ensure these pests are controlled when they approach damaging levels.This IPM tool outlines control suggestions, survey methods and action levels.

Disease Prevention
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Diseases affecting pecans are caused by bacteria, fungi, nematodes, mycoplasma, and physiological problems. This tool discusses diseases such as pecan scab, vein spot, shuck dieback, crown gall, cotton root rot, and the variety of practices used to prevent and treat them.

Equipment for IPM
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A list of IPM equipment such as hand lenses, black lights, traps, cages, plus supplier sources and addresses.

Vertebrate Management
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A tool for designing a management plan to control destruction by vertebrates in the pecan orchard. Prevention of losses depends largely on early detection and initiation of control measures. Anticipate feeding habits of crows, blue jays and squirrels and initiate measures to deter them.

Records and Forms
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Printable cultural use records forms, orchard monitoring forms, pest management records forms.

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Other Tools

Search Engines

User-friendly searchable databases for products labeled for use on pecan. Browse the whole list or do a customized search by pest, manufacturer, active ingredient, etc.

Library

Searchable Database of how-to publications and presentations, research and scientific publications and other media
Related Library Resources - links to other websites with documents and publications related to the management and culture of pecan