Reduced-Risk Pest Management Programs for Eastern U.S. Peach Orchards: Effects on Arthropod Predators, Parasitoids, and Select Pests

Reduced-risk pest management programs for eastern U.S. peach orchards: effects on arthropod predators, parasitoids, and select pests.

We developed new integrated pest management programs for eastern U.S. peaches with minimal use of organophosphates. From 2002-2005, we assessed the ecological impacts of these reduced-risk programs versus grower standard conventional programs that still relied primarily on the use of organophosphorous and carbamate insecticides. Using a split-plot design replicated at four commercial Pennsylvan...

Reduced-Risk Pest Management Programs for Eastern U.S. Apple and Peach Orchards: A 4-Year Regional Project

Reduced-risk Pest Management Programs for Eastern Tree Fruits

A 4-year research project was initiated during the 2002 growing season to evaluate, on a regional scale, pest management systems based on reduced-risk tactics that previous research and experience had indicated would be effective, sustainable, economically viable, and lead to enhanced biological control. The participating states are: Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,...

Insect Pests and Arthropod Predators Associated with Tree-Turf Landscapes

Testing the Enemies Hypothesis in Peach Orchards in Two Different Geographic Areas in Eastern China: The Role of Ground Cover Vegetation

Many studies have supported the enemies hypothesis, which suggests that natural enemies are more efficient at controlling arthropod pests in polyculture than in monoculture agro-ecosystems. However, we do not yet have evidence as to whether this hypothesis holds true in peach orchards over several geographic locations. In the two different geographic areas in eastern China (Xinchang a town in t...