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Extension Guides for Pest Management

 

Insect Pest Management Handbook

Insect Management Handbook

Plant Disease Management Handbook

Plant Disease Management Handbook

Weed Management Handbook

Weed Management Handbook

 

There are also a variety of online resources available on the web. The OSU Master Gardener™ Program does not specifically endorse these sites, but merely lists them for your information.

 

UC Davis Pest Notes

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pnalphaorder.html

OSU Great Links to gardening sites

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/mg/resources

 

Household Insect ID

UC Davis Home Pest Control

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/selectnewpest.home.html

Washington State Univ. House Pests

http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/eb0472/eb0472.pdf

Interactive household pest ID

http://everest.ento.vt.edu/Facilities/OnCampus/IDLab/id/id-main0.html

Structure Pests in the Home

http://www.utextension.utk.edu/publications/pbfiles/pb1303.pdf

Information on household pests, including vertebrates

http://www.pestproducts.com/gallery.htm

 

Ants

http://bugguide.net/node/view/15740

Non-pesticide ant control

http://www.pesticide.org/ants.html - common

Interactive ant ID key

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/TOOLS/ANTKEY/

California ants…great pictures

http://www.antweb.org/taxonomicPage.do?rank=species&project=calants

Carpenter ant handout Washington State

http://gardening.wsu.edu/library/inse004/inse004.htm

Washington State Carpenter Ant Publication 0818

http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/eb0818/eb0818.pdf

Common ants of Washington

http://www.evergreen.edu/ants/TESCBiota/commonants.html

Carpenter ant control options Jack DeAngelis from OSU

http://www.livingwithbugs.com/carp_an2.html

 

Ant ID and food likes (good info for baiting)

http://www.pestcontrolcanada.com/ants.htm

Ants in the home

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2064.html

Terminix ant ID

http://www.terminix.com/Pest/Library/index.cfm?fuseaction=category&pestCategory=Ants&pestID=23

 

Termites

Controlling termites

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7415.html

Do it yourself termite control

http://www.doityourselftermitecontrol.com/traditional.htm

Wood Boring Insects of the PNW

http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/eb1814/eb1814.pdf

Wood Boring Insect ID (You need to know your terminology!)

http://insects.tamu.edu/extension/insctans/identification/woodboringbeetles/couplet0.html

 

Spider ID

http://www.spiderexpert.com/hobo.htm

http://www.nobuggy.com/spiders_in_oregon.html

http://www.arachnology.org/Arachnology/Arachnology.html

http://www.arachnology.org/Arachnology/Pages/Pictures.html

http://www.montana.edu/wwwpb/pubs/mt9210.pdf

http://bugguide.net/node/view/4/bgpage

 

Identifying spiders by eye arrangement

http://bugguide.net/node/view/84423

 

Hobo Spider ID

http://pep.wsu.edu/pdf/PLS116_1.pdf

 

ID spiders by location (Good site for identifying families)

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/Famdraw/Locchart.htm

 

Identifying spider families (You need to know your terminology…advanced)

http://www.museumkoenig.uni-bonn.de/for/lehre/dfor_lehre_huber_spiderkey/

http://kaston.transy.edu/

 

Tick ID

http://www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/tickkey.htm

CDC publication on lyme disease

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/pubs/lyme-disease-pubs.htm

 

West Nile Virus

CDC U.S. Government

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/publications.htm

*Jackson County Vector Control

http://www.jacksoncountyvectorcontrol.org/

Organic Household Pest Controls

Organic Pest Controls

http://www.thebestcontrol.com/bugstop/

Organic Pest Controls…Idaho

http://www.oneplan.org/Crop/OrganicPestCtrl.shtml - a_insect

 

Insect Identification

Insect Order interactive key

http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/bugclub/bugid.html

Insect ID by wing type

http://www.einsteins-emporium.com/life/animal-info/insects/insect_identification.htm

ID guide to insect orders

http://www.discoverlife.org/nh/id/lucid/

http://www.cirrusimage.com/

Pictures of Insect Orders

http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/fauna/com-Insect.html

http://entoplp.okstate.edu/4H-FFA/index.html

http://www.amnh.org/learn/biodiversity_counts/ident_help/Text_Keys/arthropod_keyA.htm

Insect and spider images

http://www.cirrusimage.com/

Ken Gray’s Insect Images OSU

http://www.ipmnet.org/kgphoto/index.cfm

Dichotomous key to insect ID

http://www.clemson.edu/SCLife/lesson%20plans/adult%20insects/student%20handout%20_terr.insects_.pdf

Insect orders at a glance

http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/spotID/index.html

Bumblebee ID

http://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?guide=Bumblebees

Butterflies and Moths of North America/ Oregon

http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/ (Great site to find Bs & Ms in your county)

http://facweb.furman.edu/~snyderjohn/leplist/ Moth ID only

http://butterflywebsite.com/gallery/index.cfm Pictures of Butterflies, Moths and caterpillars

 

Garden Pests

Managing Diseases and Insects in Home Orchards (Spray guide)

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pdf/ec/ec631.pdf

Controlling Wasps, Hornets, and Yellowjackets WSU

http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/eb0643/eb0643PrinterFriendly.pdf

Controlling Pests in the Landscape, Garden and Turf

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/selectnewpest.landscape.html

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/

Pest Alert for Medford

http://ipmnet.org/pestalert/index.cfm

 

Northwest Nursery IPM

http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/nurspest/index.htm

Great Tips on controlling slugs (and snails)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/luminance/rgaa/Slugs.htm

 

Degree-days… Agrimet

http://www.usbr.gov/pn/agrimet/proginfo.html

http://pnwpest.org/cgi-bin/ddmodel.pl?clm

http://ippc2.orst.edu/OR/index.html

http://ippc2.orst.edu/medford/

http://pnwpest.org/medford/

The Weather Station

http://www.weather.com/

Jackson Co. climate

http://www.ocs.orst.edu/county_climate/Jackson_files/Jackson.html

Plant picture databases

U.S. Govt. plant database…list of plants in Oregon

http://plants.usda.gov/

http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ldplants/

http://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/

http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/flora/

Mo. Botanical garden plant list

http://www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder/alpha.asp

California Plant ID key by country…Use Siskiyou Co. plants

http://www.calflora.org/

Dave’s Garden…the largest privately held gardening website in the world

http://davesgarden.com/

Washington State Plant Database

http://gardening.wsu.edu/nwnative/

Vascular Plant Image Library

http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm

Herb ID

http://www.xanatos.com/earthshine/herbpix2.html

 

Plant Family ID…wildflowers Botany in a Day in conjunction with Texas A&M

http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com/Plant_Families/Plant_Families_Index.html

 

World Wide Flowering Plant Family Identification

http://www.colby.edu/info.tech/BI211/PlantFamilyID.html

 

Poisonous Plants

http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/

http://chppm-www.apgea.army.mil/ento/PLANT.HTM

 

Invasive plants

http://www.easywildflowers.com/invasive.htm

http://www.greenbeltconsulting.com/articles/someinvasive.html

 

Ground Covers

http://www.ext.colostate.edu/Pubs/garden/07400.html

 

Companion planting

 

http://www.gardenguides.com/TipsandTechniques/vcomp.htm

http://www.ext.nodak.edu/county/cass/horticulture/vegetables/companion.htm

http://www.rexresearch.com/agro/comp1.htm

http://www.seedsofchange.com/enewsletter/issue_55/companion_planting.asp

 

Beneficial insect source in Oregon

http://www.naturescontrol.com/pests.html

 

Plants that attract beneficial insects

http://www.farmerfred.com/plants_that_attract_benefi.html

http://www.hortsource.com/beneficicialplants.htm

http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/4DMG/PHC/benefici.htm

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/quickref/pest management/plants_attract_beneficial.html

 

General Gardening and Plant Problem Solvers

Climate zone map

http://backyardgardener.com/zone/

OSU Month by month what to do in the garden

http://eesc.oregonstate.edu/agcomwebfile/garden/cal/gc.html

Plant problem solver by symptoms

http://www.utextension.utk.edu/publications/spfiles/SP370K.pdf

Extension Service Gardening Encyclopedia

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/gardening/

Washington State Gardening Database

http://gardening.wsu.edu/text/bestnw.htm

Pest web link database

http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/diseases/az1124/

Master Gardener site Cornell Univ. Good disease diagnosis site and fact sheets.

http://www.plantclinic.cornell.edu/

Plant Disease Diagnosis

http://www.extension.umn.edu/projects/yardandgarden/diagnostics/

Diagnostic website Maryland Univ.

http://www.plantdiagnostics.umd.edu/index.cfm

Conn. Plant Pest Handbook

http://www.caes.state.ct.us/PlantPestHandbookFiles/pphIntroductory/pphsrch.htm

OSU nursery pests

http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/nurspest/

Hort link sites for Ent. & pathology

http://www.hort.wisc.edu/mastergardener/GardeningOnLine.htm

http://www.ento.okstate.edu/index.html

 

IPM

http://hortipm.tamu.edu/

Plant Disease Diagnosis Cornell Univ.

http://plantclinic.cornell.edu/

 

 

Plant Pest Handbook Conn.

http://www.caes.state.ct.us/plantpesthandbookfiles/pphIntroductory/pphsrch.htm

 

UC Davis Online Pests and Diseases

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

 

Vegetable MD Online

http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/

Disease fact sheets vegetables Cornell Univ.

http://plantclinic.cornell.edu/vegetable/index.htm

Northwest Coalition alternative to pesticides

http://www.pesticide.org/default.htm

Vegetable info and problem solver

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/veggies/index.html

 

Tomato Problem Solvers

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/tomatoproblemsolver/

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1266.pdf

http://plantdiagnostics.umd.edu/

Tomato nutrient deficiencies

http://www.plantphys.net/article.php?ch=t&id=289

http://www.luminet.net/~wenonah/min-def/tomatoes.htm (good pictures of nutrient deficiencies)

 

Abiotic plant disorders

Nutrient deficiencies

http://www.primalseeds.org/nutrients.htm

http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/az1106.pdf

http://www.agronomy.org/cca/exam_pdf/ss01270.pdf

http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/howtos/ht_non/non_all.htm

 

Plant nutrient deficiency database

http://hort.ufl.edu/nutdef/

Color pictures of mineral deficiencies in plants

http://www.luminet.net/~wenonah/min-def/list.htm

 

Soil nutrient sources and affects on plants

http://www.ghorganics.com/page32.html

 

Rose Care

American Rose Society…care of roses

http://www.ars.org/

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7463.html

http://www.sactorose.org/rosebug/irosepests.htm

Organic Rose fertilizer formula

http://www.rosemagazine.com/articles04/rose_fertilizer2/

Propagating Various Plants

http://www.freeplants.com/howtodowhat.htm

 

Composting

http://extension.missouri.edu/explore/agguides/hort/G06956.htm

Composting WSU

http://gardening.wsu.edu/stewardship/compost/compost.htm

http://www.compostguide.com/

Making compost tea by Elaine Ingham (OSU)

http://www.soilfoodweb.com/03_about_us/approach_pgs/c_01_understand_why.html

 

Drought tolerant and native plants

 

Drought tolerant/Native plants

http://www.molbaks.com/infopages/drought.pdf

Oregon Native Plant Society Website

http://www.npsoregon.org/

Rogue Valley source for native plants

http://www.plantoregon.com/

Native plants for erosion control

http://www.boskydellnatives.com/erosioncontrol.htm

http://www.oakpointnursery.com/erosion_control.htm

Arid plant list (Arizona)

http://ag.arizona.edu/pima/gardening/aridplants/aridplant_index.html - indexC

 

Fire resistant plants

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/deschutes/FireResPlants.pdf

 

Wildlife Control

Deer resistant plants

http://www.rcre.rutgers.edu/deerresistance/

OSU publication

http://www.wildlifemanagement.info/publications/deer_18.pdf or

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/html/ec/ec1440/

 

Gopher Controls

http://ag.arizona.edu/yavapai/anr/hort/gopher/experimentaldevice.html

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7433.html

http://agr.state.mt.us/weedpest/pdf/VertBulletins/PocketGopher.pdf

 

Mole Control

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74115.html

http://www.themoleman.com/control.htm

 

*Excellent Information on controlling all kinds of wildlife

http://icwdm.org/handbook/index.asp

 

Trees

Tree ID

http://www.arborday.org/trees/treeid.cfm

http://www.fw.vt.edu/dendro/forsite/key/intro.htm

http://pick4.pick.uga.edu/mp/20q?guide=Trees

http://forestry.about.com/library/treekey/bltree_key_id_simple.htm

West Coast Tree I.D.

http://signsofdissent.com/webbedfeet/tree/treebegin.html

 

Key to conifers in the US

http://www.amnh.org/learn/biodiversity_counts/ident_help/Text_Keys/conifer_key.htm

Conifer Tree ID

http://oregonstate.edu/trees/

Robin Rosetta’s pest alerts

http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/nurspest/Alert/Alert.cfm

 

Ashland Tree Guide

http://www.ashland.or.us/Files/treeguid.pdf

 

Sick trees

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/sorec/Forestry/sicktree.php

http://www.pfc.forestry.ca/diseases/CTD/index_e.html

http://gardening.wsu.edu/text/bestnw.htm

Oregon Forest Health

http://www.oregon.gov/ODF/PRIVATE_FORESTS/fh.shtml


An Online Catalog of Western Forest Insects and Diseases

http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/nr/fid/wid.shtml

 

Abiotic Disorders of Trees

http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/howtos/ht_non/non_all.htm

Why are my trees dying…soil compaction due to construction?

http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/fnr/Extension/pdfs/faq11w.PDF

 

Sudden Oak Death

http://cemarin.ucdavis.edu/symptoms.html

http://www.treehelp.com/

Diseases of Pacific Madrone

http://soilslab.cfr.washington.edu/madrone/ch07_el.pdf

The decline of madrones in urban landscapes Pt. 2

http://soilslab.cfr.washington.edu/madrone/ch05_by.pdf

Plants and trees resistant or susceptible to Verticillium wilt

http://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/resources/ucdavis_verticillium.pdf

 

Pruning

http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/howtos/ht_prune/prun001.htm

http://tfpg.cas.psu.edu/pruning/slide1.htm

http://forestry.about.com/od/arboriculture/ss/why_prune.htm

Great interactive pruning tool

http://arborday.org/trees/pruning/

Tree pruning and landscape advice (Jackson Co. Arborist)

http://www.mdvaden.com/

 

Houseplants

Diagnosing houseplant disorders

http://www.ca.uky.edu/agcollege/plantpathology/ext_files/PPFShtml/PPFS-OR-H-04(08-04).pdf

Diseases

http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/eb1354/eb1354.html

Pests

http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/eb0695/eb0695.html

 

Soil Information

Soil Survey

http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/

Soil pH

Formulas for pH modification

http://www.thegardenhelper.com/acidsoil.html

Acidifying soils West of the Cascades

http://www.agronomy.org/cca/exam_pdf/70.pdf

Managing soil acidy

http://forages.tamu.edu/PDF/scs2001-05.pdf

PH levels for vegetables, flowers & herbs

http://www.gardenersnet.com/atoz/ph.htm

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1602.html

Soil solarization for pest, disease and weed control

http://vric.ucdavis.edu/veginfo/topics/soils/soilsolarization.pdf

Soil Information for Master Gardeners

http://www.puyallup.wsu.edu/soilmgmt/Gardening.htm

 

Turf Grass Identification

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/TOOLS/TURF/TURFSPECIES/index.html

Interactive turf grass Identification

http://www.agry.purdue.edu/turf/tool/index.html

Turf grass disease diagnosis

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/pp/notes/Turfgrass/Turf011/Turf011.html

Growing a Healthy Lawn West of the Cascades

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/html/ec/ec1521/

Lawn Establishment and Renovation- Tom Cook OSU

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pdf/ec/ec1550.pdf

 

Weed ID

UC Davis Weed ID

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/weeds_common.html

http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~epados/lawn/src/pest/classification.htm

http://www.weedscience.org/photos/Photodisplayall.asp

Weed images

http://weeds.ippc.orst.edu/pnw/weeds?weeds/id/thumbindexA.html

 

Oregon State Weed ID by plant families

http://cropandsoil.oregonstate.edu/weeds/id.html

Interactive Weed ID

http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/weedid/

 

Weed ID in turf grass

http://axp.ipm.ucdavis.edu/TOOLS/TURF/PESTS/weedkey.html

Oregon Noxious Weed list

http://oregon.gov/ODA/PLANT/WEEDS/

http://www.arhomeandgarden.org/lawns/slides/Summer_Turf_Weeds.pdf

Worst weeds in the West

http://www.weedcenter.org/management/weed_mgmt_profiles.html

 

Organic

Oregon Tilth

http://www.tilth.org/certification.html

U.S. Organic Standards

http://www.tilth.org/publications/USDA_National_Standards.pdf

Organic Potting Mixes for Certified Organic Production

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/potmix.html#ref2 or printer friendly:

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/potmix.pdf

 

Northwest Coalition for alternatives to pesticides

http://www.pesticide.org/

Miscellaneous Information

Pesticide safety household products and pesticides

http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/

Unknown insect bites causing welts, rashes or fibers

www.morgellons.org

http://www.dermatechrx.com/SkinParasites/

Oregon Nurseries…Locations

http://www.gardenguides.com/resources/nurseries/nurseries-state.asp?state=OR

Growing Your Own in Oregon

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/html/grow/grow/index.html

*Find the lowest gas prices in Oregon

http://www.gasbuddy.com/Gas_Prices/Oregon/Jackson/index.aspx

 

University Extension Publications and Sources

Oregon State University on-line publications

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/

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

http://ohioline.osu.edu/lines/hygs.html

http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/hortcult/

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/hortinternet/

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/publications.html

http://pubs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/pubs/index.html

http://www.michellesgarden.com/reference.shtml

http://www.ippc.orst.edu/cicp/crops/ornamental.htm

http://hgic.clemson.edu/pests.htm