Biological and Monitoring Information

• Direct pests of grape - affecting the fruit directly
• Grape berry moth
• Grape flea beetle
• Redbanded leafroller
• Yellowjackets
• Climbing cutworms
• Rose chafer
• Grape curculio
• Grapevine looper
• Indirect pests of grape - affecting other parts of the plant:
 Foliar feeders
• Japanese beetle
• Green June beetle
• European red mite
• Grape leafhopper
• Sharpshooters and Pierce's disease (Breeze)
  
• Leafhoppers and Grapevine yellows
• Grape mealybug
• Grape phylloxera
• Grapevine aphid
• Grapeleaf skeletonizer
• Grape leaffolder
• Grape plume moth
• Sphinx moths
• Eightspotted forester
• Spotted pelidnota
• Grape colaspis
• Gallmakers
• Grape erineum mite


Trunk and cane feeders

• Ambrosia beetles and apple twig borer
• Grape cane girdler
• Grape cane gallmaker
• Periodical cicada
• Grape scale
• European fruit lecanium


Root feeders

• Grape root borer
• Grape phylloxera
• Grape rootworm
• Pheromone trap data for grape berry moth and grape root borer (Augusta and Rappahannock Cos. 2003, 2004, 2005 (Winchester 2002,2001)

 
• A Course in Fruit IPM
 
• Syllabus for Arthropod Pest Management in Fruit Crops
• Lecture outline for grape IPM

Biological Control

• Predators of Mites and AphidsReprinted with permission from Mid-Atlantic Orchard Monitoring Guide, published by NRAES, 152 Riley-Robb Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853-5701. (607) 255-7654

 
Predators of Mites - L.A. Hull and R. L. Horsburgh
 
• Stethorus punctum
• Amblyseius fallacis
• Zetzellia mali
• Minute pirate bugs
• Black hunter
• Predatory mirids
Predators of aphids - D. G. Pfeiffer and H. W. Hogmire
 
• Syrphid flies
• Aphid midge, Aphidoletes aphidimyza
• Green and brown lacewings
• Ladybird beetles
• Minute pirate bugs
• Toxicity to Orchard Predators from Pesticides [from 2010 Spray Bulletin for Commercial Tree Fruit Growers (Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland Coop. Ext. Pub. 456-419)]
• Toxicity to Honey Bees of Fruit Insecticides [from 2010 Spray Bulletin for Commercial Tree Fruit Growers (Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland Coop. Ext. Pub. 456-419)]

 
• Biological Control: Natural Enemies of North America (Cornell)

 
• Entomopathogenic Nematodes

    General information (OSU)
    Certis USA (source for entomopathogenic nematodes)

Chemical Control

• Your Nearest Poison Control Center - (800) 222-1222

• Virginia 2010 Pest Management Guide for Commercial Vineyards (VCE PMG page: Virginia Coop. Ext. Pub. 456-017)  (The Pest Management Guide is available on-line for free. Hard copies are also available for $6.00 plus $5.27 shipping.  Call 540-231-1322).
(Abridged html version)


• Pesticide efficacy for grape

• 2010 Pest Management Guide for Home Fruit (Virginia Coop. Ext. Pub. 456-018) in PDF format (The Pest Management Guide is available on-line for free. Hard copies are also available for $5.00 plus $5.27 shipping.  Call 540-231-1322).
(Abridged html version)
• Disease and Insects

• North Carolina 2010 Pest Management Recommendations (Use caution because pest species and recommended controls vary regionally)

• New York and Pennsylvania Grape Pest Management recommendation

• New Jersey Rutgers recommendations 2009

• University of Maryland
  

• University of Connecticut 2010
  

• Ohio State University

• Southeast Regional Bunch Grape Pest Management Guide 2009
  

• Midwest 2010 Small Fruit and Grape Recommendations

• University of Tennessee grape recommendations

• University of Georgia 2009
  

• University of Florida 2008
  

• Univ. California recommendations
  

• Pacific Northwest
 
• Pesticide Labels and MSDS (CDMS)

• Modes of Action Classification Scheme for Insecticides (PDF), in Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC) group site (see IRAC Classification), and Fungicides (Fungicide Resistance Action Committee (FRAC) site

• Insecticide Resistance Management (Breeze)

• NPIRS State Pesticide Information Retrieval System
 
• Regulatory updates on pesticides:

• EPA Text on Pesticide Poisoning

• Information on organic pest control.

• Pesticide legislation - Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (U. S. Senate web links)

 
• Environmental Impact Quotient, developed at Cornell University to determine the environmental impact of insecticides used in fruit systems (updated 2006)

Pesticide labels, Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) and Toxicological and environmental profiles of specific pesticides in Virginia recommendations

Airblast sprayer calibration (Virginia Tech)

A student demonstration on airblast calibration

Pheromone-based Monitoring and Management

• Mating disruption of grape berry moth
• Information on establishing a disruption block in orchards or vineyards
• Labels for mating disruption products

• Grape berry moth: Isomate-GBM Plus, SPLAT-GBM,
  

• Pacific Biocontrol Mating Disruption Information
• Pherolist, a glossary of lepidopteran sex attractants

• Illinois Weed Identification key (illustrated)
• Page from WSU

Other Topics

• Cumberland-Shenandoah Fruit Workers Conference, Winchester VA, 19-20 Nov 2009.
• Entomological Society of America National Meeting, Indianapolis IN, 13-16 Dec 2009.
  
• Southeast Regional Small Fruit and Vegetable Conference, Savannah GA, 7-10 January 2010.
  
• Western Orchard Pest and Disease Management Conference. Portland OR, 13-15 Jan 2010.
• Entomological Society of America Eastern Branch, Annapolis MD, 7-9 Mar 2010.
  
• XVII International Plant Protection Congress - Honolulu, Hawaii, August 6 - 10, 2011
• IOBC/WPRS Working Group (see list of IOBC meetings).