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1 Organic Vegetable Pest Management Jerry Brust IPM Vegetable Specialist

2 Insects

3 Numbers of species Bacteria and Fungi Animals Plants Other Arthropods Insects

4 Metamorphosis: Complete Metamorphosis: Incomplete

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6 Mouthparts (Caterpillars) Rasping/sucking (Thrips and Mites)

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8 Stippling of foliage from thrips feeding, also can look like mite feeding

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10 Natural Enemies of insect pests

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37 Tachinid larva inside stink bug adult

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54 Product Name Active Ingredient Controls Suppresses Reported to suppress 1 Neemix, Azaguard 2 3 Entrust Various names 4 Dipel, or Xentari azadirachtin, neem oil Spinosad garlic tea or garlic/pepper tea, lemon juice, dishsoap, hot pepper wax, etc Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki or aizawa Diatomaceous Earth Thrips, some beetles-cpb, most caterpillars Caterpillars--very good control of many species Beetles,aphids caterpillars Some beetles, caterpillars Large caterpillars Fleas, aphids Most insects and mites Aphids, mites 6 Safer Soap K fatty acids aphids, mites small caterpillars 7 Rotenone Pyganic rotenone pyrethrum Beetles, worms, sucking bugs, aphids, mites Japanese beetles, some caterpillars, aphids True bugs 8 Surround kaolin clay Aphids, mites, worms, thrips 9 Horticultural Oils dormant (trees, shrubs) horticultural or summer oil (use during season) Scales, aphids aphids, mites mealy bugs 10 Botanigard Beauveria bassiana Aphids, mites, small worms True bugs Thrips, small caterpillars

55 Product Cost 1 qt Pyganic $ lb Entrust $ lb Dipel $ qt AzaGuard $ lbs Surround $ qt Safer soap $ pt Hot pepper wax $ lb Rotenone $9.00

56 Product Cost 1 qt Pyganic $ lb Entrust $ lb Dipel $ qt AzaGuard $ lbs Surround $ qt Safer soap $ pt Hot pepper wax $ lb Rotenone $9.00

57 Product Cost 1 qt Pyganic $ lb Entrust $ lb Dipel $ qt AzaGuard $ lbs Surround $ qt Safer soap $ pt Hot pepper wax $ lb Rotenone $9.00

58 Chemical name Product Name Chemical class Acephate Orthene, Isotox IV Organophosphate Allethrin Ortho Home Defense Pyrethroid Azadiractin Neem Botanical Bacillus thringiensis Dipel, Thuricide Microbial Bifenthrin Bug B Gone Max, Scotts Step 3 Pyrethroid Carbaryl Sevin, Bug-B-Gone Carbamate Cyfluthrin Tempo Pyrethroid Diatomaceous Earth DE Mechanical Desiccant Esfenvalerate Bug-B-Gone Pyrethroid Fipronil Combat Phenylpyrazoles Imidacloprid Merit Neonicotinoid Lambda-cyhalothrin Triazide, Hot Shot Pyrethroid Malathion malathion Organophosphate Potassium Salts of fatty acids Safer soap Desiccant Permethrin Numerous Pyrethroid Petroleum oil Volck, Horticultural Oil Sufficant Pyrethrin Numerous Botanical Resmethrin Whitefly & Mealybug Spray Pyrethroid Rotenone Rotenone Botanical Tetramethrin Numerous Pyrethroid

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62 Top 10 Insect Pests for Vegetables 1. Description, damage, life cycle, etc. of pest 2. Cultural (Management) 3. Organic (Chemical Management)

63 1. Colorado potato beetle

64 Cultural Rotate away from solanaceous crops Use straw mulch around plants Organic Entrust Kaolin clay Btt-Bacillus thuringiensis tenebrionis

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74 Cultural Use straw mulch around plants Sweet corn-plant early as possible Use corn earworm pheromone trap >10/night Organic Entrust Bt-Bacillus thuringiensis Bt aizawai Bt kurstaki strain HD-1 Kaolin clay applied to tomato plant not fruit

75 3. Thrips and Spider mites

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77 Rasping Insects mites

78 Orius insidiosus - insidious flower bug

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80 Cultural Make sure plants not heat stressed Use straw mulch around plants Heavy water-spray application - wash off Organic Entrust-thrips ONLY Hort oils, soaps-both Kaolin-clay

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85 Cultural Non stressed plants Use straw mulch around plants Reflective mulch Organic Hort oils, soaps K-clay

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87 5. Flea beetles

88 Cultural Floating row covers Trap cropping-radish and mustard greens Crop Rotation Yellow sticky traps Organic Hort oils, soaps Pyrethrums + K-clay

89 Row Covers

90 Trap crops

91 Sticky traps

92 6. Stink bugs and Harlequin bug

93 Stinkbug damage

94 Harlequin bug damage

95 BMSB damage to fruit and vegetables

96 Cultural Floating row covers Organic Pyrethrums and K-clay + Pyrethrums

97 7. Striped cucumber beetle

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99 Cultural Floating row covers Trap cropping Organic Pyrethrums Py + K-clay

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102 Cultural Floating row covers Trap cropping Organic Pyrethrins or Py + Kaolin clay directed at base of plant-early season

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106 Cultural Floating row covers Pheromone trap monitoring Cover 1 st 12 inches of vine Organic Pyrethrums or Py + K- clay directed to base of plant

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108 9. Mexican bean beetle and bean leaf beetle

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111 Floating row covers Hand-pick Clean-up debris Cultural Several varieties of bean show some level of tolerance. They are: Wade, Logan, and Black Valentine. Beans very susceptible are the State, Bountiful, and Dwarf varieties.

112 Organic Pyrethrums

113 10. Seed corn maggot and Pickleworm/Melonworm

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115 Cultural Floating row covers-both; off during day on at night - worms Cover early season for SCM; later season for worms Plant after soil warms (70 o F)-SCM Manure and decomposing cover crop attract flies-till in 3-4 weeks before planting-scm Organic Pyrethrums or diatomaceous earth directed to base of plant before damage is observed-scm Pyrethrums at flowering-worms

116 Have problems or questions during the season call : Home and Garden Info Center Maryland Vegetables

117 Chemical name Product Name Chemical class Acephate Orthene, Isotox IV Organophosphate Allethrin Ortho Home Defense Pyrethroid Azadiractin Neem Botanical Bacillus thringiensis Dipel, Thuricide Microbial Bifenthrin Bug B Gone Max, Scotts Step 3 Pyrethroid Carbaryl Sevin, Bug-B-Gone Carbamate Cyfluthrin Tempo Pyrethroid Diatomaceous Earth DE Mechanical Desiccant Esfenvalerate Bug-B-Gone Pyrethroid Fipronil Combat Phenylpyrazoles Imidacloprid Merit Neonicotinoid Lambda-cyhalothrin Triazide, Hot Shot Pyrethroid Malathion malathion Organophosphate Potassium Salts of fatty acids Safer soap Desiccant Permethrin Numerous Pyrethroid Petroleum oil Volck, Horticultural Oil Sufficant Pyrethrin Numerous Botanical Resmethrin Whitefly & Mealybug Spray Pyrethroid Rotenone Rotenone Botanical Tetramethrin Numerous Pyrethroid

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