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 2007 Spray Bulletin for Commercial Tree Fruit Growers (Virginia and West Virginia 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 2008 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 at no cost, but must be requested and picked through your county extension office (no funds are available for mailing these publications).  
(Abridged html version)


• Pesticide efficacy for grape

• 2008 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 at no cost, but must be requested and picked through your county extension office (no funds are available for mailing these publications).
(Abridged html version)
• Disease and Insects

• North Carolina 2006 Pest Management Recommendations (Use caution because pest species and recommended controls vary regionally).
• Michigan State University recommendations
• Midwest 2007 Small Fruit and Grape Recommendations
  

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

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

Other Topics

• XXIII International Congress of Entomology - Durban South Africa, July 6-12, 2008
• IOBC/WPRS Working Group on "Integrated Plant Protection in Fruit Crops", (1st announcement with pre-registration form), Avignon France, Oct 27-30
  
• Sixth International IPM Symposium - Portland, Oregon, March 24–26, 2009
• IOBC/WPRS Working Group "Integrated Control in Protected Crops, Mediterranean Climate", Crete Greece, Spring 2009
• XVII International Plant Protection Congress - Honolulu, Hawaii, August 6 - 10, 2011