Growing Healthy Seedlings: Identification and Management of Pests in NorthwestForest Nurseries

摘要

The book provides an illustrated guide to the identification and management offungi, insects, and abiotic conditions that cause problems in Northwest bareroot conifer nurseries. A key to nursery pests offers initial guidance in identification. Separate chapters address individual pests with details on recognition, damage cycle, and management practices to reduce losses. A final chapter discusses the integration of pest-management practices into the entire nursery operation. Tables of pesticides and pests controlled, a checklist of control activities keyed to the seedling growth cycle, and a glossary of terms onclude the book.