Integrated Pest Management: Detecting Plant Diseases in the Lab

Integrated Pest Management: Monitoring Diseases In The Field

This video explains how to do field scouting for diseases and vectors by walking through a field and observing a number of locations. Diseases can reduce the yield and nutritional quality of crops., and vectors...

Silvia I. Rondon, Mary Corp, Stephen M. Van Vleet, Stuart Reitz, Pamela Hutchinson | Jul 2015 | Extension Catalog publication

Integrated Pest Management: Pest Management Integration

This video explores Integrated Pest Management (IPM) as an approach to protecting your crop from insects, weeds and plant pathogens. IPM uses multiple tactics to manage a particular pest and takes into consideration how management of one pest may affect management of other pests.

Silvia I. Rondon, Mary Corp, Stephen M. Van Vleet, Stuart Reitz, Pamela Hutchinson | Jul 2015 | Extension Catalog publication

Integrated Pest Management: Using A Plant Press

Preserving plant specimens is the best way to identify plants by their characteristics at a later period of time. It is always best (if possible) to collect the entire plant specimen at peak production, so you...

Silvia I. Rondon, Mary Corp, Stephen M. Van Vleet, Stuart Reitz, Pamela Hutchinson | Jul 2015 | Extension Catalog publication

Integrated Pest Management: How to Identify a Plant or Weed

This video demonstrates the best ways to identify a plant or weed. It covers the process of photographing and collecting the plant and then how to narrow down and establish the plant's category. It explains how to use a field guide and a dichotomous key to identify a plant.

Silvia I. Rondon, Mary Corp, Stephen M. Van Vleet, Stuart Reitz, Pamela Hutchinson | Jul 2015 | Extension Catalog publication