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This integrated pest management (IPM) chapter from the Extension Gardener Handbook familiarizes readers with a systematic approach to managing insect and animal garden pests in an environmentally responsible manner.
This Entomology Insect Note describes darkwinged fungus gnats, an insect pest of some field crops, shrubs, and houseplants.
This Entomology Insect Note describes the biology and control of aphid pests of ornamental trees, shrubs, and flowers.
This factsheet describes the biology of yellowjackets— small, social wasps that often nest near or in landscapes.
This Entomology Insect Note describes the biology and control of Japanese beetle adults, which feed on many species of ornamental trees, shrubs, and flowers.
This Entomology Insect Note focuses on the park bark adelgid, Pineus strobi, pests found on white pines in North Carolina.
This Entomology Insect Note describes brown soft scale, a common insect pest on trees, shrubs and indoor plants.
This Entomology Insect Note describes flower thrips, insect pests of grasses and flowering plants.
This factsheet describes the biology of the pine needle scale insects, Chionaspis pinifoliae, and provides residential management recommendations.
This factsheet describes the biology of the hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae, and provides residential management recommendations.
This Entomology Insect Note describes the biology and life cycle of lecanium scale, a tree and shrub pest.
This factsheet describes the biology of the greater peachtree borer, Synanthedon exitisoa, and provides residential management recommendations.
Healthy plants are important components of urban landscapes. These plants, however, are subjected to attacks by a myriad of pests while they are being grown in a nursery or maintained in a landscape. The ultimate goal of a successful ornamental plant pest management program is to improve the quality of plants (nurseries and greenhouses) and plant care services (landscape care operations) while minimizing pesticide use and the negative impacts of pesticide use to the environment, workers, clients, and other non-target organisms. To do so, ornamental plant growers and landscape care professionals have to understand the basic operating principles of integrated pest management, or IPM. The results of IPM can be spectacularly effective when well designed and executed.
This factsheet describes the biology of the juniper webworm, Dichomeris marginella, and provides residential management recommendations.
This insect note contains a pest management calendar for boxwood insect and mite pests.
This Entomology Insect Note describes the biology and control of the brown marmorated stink bug, insect pests of trees and shrubs as well as homes.
This factsheet describes the biology of the beech erineum mite, Aceria ferruginea, and provides residential management recommendations.
This insect note contains a pest management calendar for maple.
This insect note contains a pest management calendar for oak insect and mite pests.
This factsheet shows when common insect and mite pests of pyracantha are likely to be present.
