A quick post today to share a link to the recently revised "UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines for Kiwifruit" (UC ANR Publication #3449). You can download the whole document as a pdf here, or use it online at the above link.
Although there are also well-written sections on general kiwi pest management, as well as specific information on insects, mites, and diseases of kiwifruit, since this is the Weed Science blog, I'd better post a link directly to the Integrated Weed Management section authored by:
- K. Hembree, UC Cooperative Extension, Fresno County
- B. Hanson, Weed Science, UC Davis
- with contributions by W.T. Lanini and C. Elmore, Weed Science, UC Davis
I think these PMGs are among the most useful sources of pest managment information published by the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Managment Program. These agricultural and home garden pest management guides are updated every year or so with extensive revisions every few years. The authors usually include University of California faculty, specialists, and farm advisors and the guides are produced and edited by UC Statewide IPM Program, University of California, Davis.
Visit the UC IPM homepage for more pest management information. If you haven't used this resource before, you may be nearly alone. According to the UC-IPM director - this web resource gets nearly 50,000 pageviews per day by folks from around the world!
Take care,
Brad