Recipient Organization
UNIV OF MINNESOTA
(N/A)
ST PAUL,MN 55108
Performing Department
ENTOMOLOGY
Non Technical Summary
Reduce pesticide use in urban areas and promote biological control of urban pests. Provide educational information that is the result of research that promotes biorational pesticide use and biological control for urban pests.
Animal Health Component
70%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
30%
Applied
70%
Developmental
(N/A)
Goals / Objectives
An USDA planning grant supported two meetings of Landscape IPM extension researchers, practitioners, and industry representatives to discuss the needs for the landscape and nursery industry. At those meetings one of the highest priorities identified was the need for educational materials to facilitate IPM adoption among the diverse clientele of the landscape industry that includes growers and landscape managers. This need for IPM educational materials to facilitate landscape IPM adoption in the North Central States was discussed by participants of the planning grant at committee meetings of NCR 193 Maintaining plant health: Managing insect pests and diseases of woody plants. Two of the objectives stated in the committee's mission statement are to create educational materials for use by the NC member states for improving the understanding, knowledge, and implementation of IPM in landscapes. Discussion on the manual's contents indicated that the text needed to include pest
life history information, the potential of biological control to manage the pest, conventional pesticide choice, biorational pesticide choice, and risk of the pest to plant health. This collaborative manual resulted from the need to more efficiently utilize limited funds, reduce redundancy, and combine forces for increased technical coverage of areas. It was decided that each state specialist would contribute introductory chapters on the various technical issues associated with landscape IPM. The final manual will be posted at the CUES website, where sections of the manual now can be viewed (www.entomology.umn.edu/cues). In this proposal, funds are requested to complete the manual, which includes desktop publishing and printing.
Project Methods
Vera Krischik, University of Minnesota and John Davidson, University of Maryland organized the 300 pages of insect descriptions, management, and biological control information. John Davidson is an Emeritus Professor of Entomology and is national and internationally known as the one of the founders of landscape IPM. He is widely recognized as a world expert on scale insect identification and management. He has an excellent library of slides and drawings on landscape pests that will be used in the book. Some of John Davidson's slides are used in the Insect diagnostic site at the CUES website (www.entomology.umn.edu/cues). Introductory chapters are written by NCR 193 members to facilitate the technical cover of all the aspects of Landscape IPM. The final manual will be posted on the website, and parts of it are already posted at the CUES site. Contributing NCR 193 members Jim Appelby, University of Illinois Ray Cloyd, University of IIlinois Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State
University John Davidson University Maryland Mark Harrell, University of Nebraska Dan Herms, Ohio State University Vera Krischik, University of Minnesota Cliff Sadof, Purdue University Dave Shetlar, Ohio State University