Integrated Pest Management

This section covers some work and information from Area IPM Advisor Cheryl Wilen, Ph.D. Cheryl works primarily with professional ornamental plant growers, pest control advisers, landscapers, and public agencies.

Cheryl is also the Area Integrated Pest Management Advisor for Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego Counties.

Main Office  858-694-2845

FAX 858-694-2849

See information about the UC IPM Program

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UC Master Gardeners
Your best contact for Home Horticulture/Garden pest questions.

San Diego County: 858-694-2860  or e-mail Master Gardener Help.
Orange County: 714-708-1606  or http://uccemg.com/About_Us/Contact_Us/
Los Angeles County: (323) 260-3238 or mglosangeleshelpline@ucdavis.edu

You can also check out the UC IPM Program's PEST NOTES

IPM Questions
For residential pest management questions, please contact the Master Gardeners at  858-694-2860  or e-mail Master Gardener Help.

The Green Bulletin
This newsletter directed at pest management professionals in the structural and landscape pest control business provides timely tips and updates about pests, pesticides, application techniques, and other related news with the emphasis on protecting water quality.

The Green Bulletin is now in production and can be found here.

To be notified when a new issue comes out, you can subscribe on the page listed above or directly at:

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/greenbulletin/greenbulletin.rss

Effective gopher trapping

Kontos Insecticide Crop Safety Report 2010

Recycled Water and its Effect on Plant Health documents from the 5/19/09 Landscape IPM Meeting.

Herbicide table for nursery weed control. You can save it and use your own results and experience to modify it for your nursery.

Helpful IPM Link
For more IPM information, visit the
Statewide UC IPM site

IPM Kiosk

 

The IPM Kiosk contains information about 50 common home and garden pests, including identification and management, alternatives to pesticides and least toxic pest control, as well as safe use and disposal of pesticides. The kiosk also includes tips related to proper watering, fertilizing, and avoiding problems associated with garden chemicals. Kiosk users can look up a pest by category and name or diagnose a problem on plants. Users can watch videos, print and take home information, as well as locate resources for finding additional pest management help in their county.

Healthy Garden - Healthy Home

Healthy Garden – Healthy Home is a new program giving the residents of San Diego County the opportunity to improve our water resources. As part of this effort, a team of 25 UCCE San Diego County Master Gardeners have undergone extensive in-depth Integrated Pest Management (IPM) training in order to provide outreach to the San Diego Community.To learn more about the Healthy Garden – Healthy Home program, please click on the logo at the left of this paragraph.

Take a look at the Retail Nursery Newsletter and the Landscape Brochure. The brochure is a large file and will take a while to download.

Cheryl Wilen, Ph.D. is the Area Integrated Pest Management Advisor for Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego Counties

Main Office  858-694-2845

FAX 858-694-2849

 

Pests of Landscape Trees and Shrubs Visit our office today to purchase a copy or call  85... for more information.

 

Nursery Research - Use of Subirrigation for Weed Management in Ornamental Plant Production Systems by Cheryl Wilen?Weed and crop growth in nursery containers with reservoirs for subirrigation were compared to conventional pots irrigated by overhead sprinklers or by spot spitters. The use of automatic sensors for managing irrigation timing was also investigated. In general, subirrigated woody plants had significantly greater growth as indicated by plant height and by root and shoot dry weights. To see entire article, click here: Subirrigation for Weed Management in Ornamental Plant Production Systems