Related Sites

OSU Master Gardeners

County MG Associations

Extension Guides for Pest Management

	Insect Management Handbook
	Plant Disease 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

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

Structure Pests in the Home

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

Ants

Interactive ant ID key

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

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

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

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://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

Tick ID

http://www.oes.org/html/how_2_identify_different_ticks.html

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

ID guide to insect orders

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

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

http://www.amentsoc.org/insects/what-bug-is-this/adult-key.html

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

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

Lepidoptera of the Pacific Northwest

http://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/pubs/webdocs/reports/pub3739.cfm?topnav=55

Bumblebee ID

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

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

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/

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

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.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.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/

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

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/

OSU nursery pests

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

IPM

http://hortipm.tamu.edu/

UC Davis Online Pests and Diseases

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

Vegetable MD Online

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

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

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

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

Propagating Roses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzxfMK1UA9U

Propagation from cuttings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Zo9I3C3_I

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

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

Fire resistant plants

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/html/pnw/pnw590/

Wildlife Control

Deer resistant plants

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

EC 1440 Deer resistant plants publication

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

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

Conifer Tree ID

http://oregonstate.edu/trees/

Dichotomous key to shrubs

http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/fieldbio/Shrubs/Pages/IShome.html

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

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

Great interactive pruning tool

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

Tree pruning and landscape advice

http://www.mdvaden.com/

Houseplant Care

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

Soil Information

Soil Survey

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

Soil pH

Formulas for pH modification

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

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 Information for Master Gardeners

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

Turf Grass Identification

Interactive turf grass Identification

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

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

Turf grass disease diagnosis

http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/plantpath/extension/fact_sheets/Turfgrass_-_Diagnosing_Turfgrass_Diseases.htm

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

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

Oregon Noxious Weed list

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

Organic

Oregon Tilth

http://tilth.org/

OMRI

http://www.omri.org/

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/

Mushroom ID

http://www.pfc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/biodiversity/matchmaker/index_e.html

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

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