Crops and Pests
Removal of so-called "mummy nuts" is key to controlling populations of this pest of pistachios, walnuts, and almonds.
What is navel orangeworm?
Sap-feeding pests possess this type of insect mouthparts.
What are piercing-sucking mouthparts?
What is sanitation?
This MSU researcher's lab focuses on Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management, particularly in small fruit crop systems.
Who is Dr. Rufus Isaacs?
These short, written documents convey information on the biology and management of specific pests to growers.
What are fact sheets?
This type of pest feeding would cause indirect injury to apples and direct injury to cabbage.
What is leaf feeding/defoliation?
Insects, and especially pests, tend to have this life history strategy.
What is an r-strategist?
This form of biological might involve a grower making a purchase from Koppert Biological Systems in Howell, MI.
This Cornell entomologist's lab generates considerable research on landscape effects on agroecological processes.
Who is Dr. Katja Poveda?
This set of IPM tactics, such as planting resistant crop varieties, comprises the A in PAMS.
What is Avoidance?
Ants are an important biological control agent of this coleopteran pest, though not necessarily through direct predation.
What is the coffee berry borer?
Pests like black cutworm and fall armyworm are members of this lepidopteran family.
What is Noctuidae?
This IPM tactic is particularly appropriate for pests that only mate once and that adult males of which do not cause harm.
What is sterile insect technique (SIT)?
The vast majority of academic IPM research and extension work is done through this kind of university.
What is a land-grant?
This USDA sub-agency conducts yearly surveys on agricultural economics, demographics, and adoption of IPM practices around the country.
What is the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)?
In the southern US, the pest Helicoverpa zea has evolved resistance to most Bt varieties of these two crops.
What are corn and cotton?
This attribute of a farm and its surroundings may alter the efficacy of certain IPM tactics, particularly biological control.
What is landscape context? OR What is percent of cropland/natural area in surrounding area?
Under IPPM, this is the level of pollinator population at which the cost of augmenting their population equals the yield loss due to lack of sufficient pollination.
What is a pollinator EIL?
Kenyan scientist Dr. Charles Midega has published extensively on this unique maize production system in Africa.
What is push-pull agriculture?
This euphemism is commonly employed in place of "climate change" to avoid getting into political debates with growers.
What are increasingly variable weather patterns?
Abandonment of traditional farming practices in Peru led to increased problems with this pest.
What is the Andean potato weevil?
Providing additional resources might prevent this unpleasant situation involving multiple natural enemy species.
What is intraguild predation?
This type of economic threshold takes into account environmental conditions and/or natural enemy populations as well as pest populations. It is very rare.
What is a dynamic threshold?
This former Cornell postdoc and current NC State professor will be starting a position here at MSU as our new Aginformatics Entomologist in August.
Who is Dr. Anders Huseth?
This university-extension-operated site serves to show growers how to adopt IPM and other sustainable management practices.
What is a demonstration farm?