Turfgrass Pest Management (Category 3A)

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Turfgrass Pest Management (Category 3A)

• Pest Management Techniques
• Chapter 3

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Pest Management Tactics

• Short term suppression
• OR
• Long term maintenance of pest levels
• Resistance
• Environmental modifications
• Cultural practices
• Biological controls

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Short Term Suppresion

• Fungicide application for control of Rhizoctonia
  - Brown patch.

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Long-term maintenance

• Environmental modifications
• Cultural practices
• Resistance

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Plant Resistance Plant Vigor

• Plant selection
• Match site conditions
• Pest resistance
• Established turf
• Modify environment
• Appropriate cultural practices

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Cultural Practices
Topdressing
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Cultural Controls
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Mowing
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Mechanical Physical Controls

• Hand Removal
• Cutworms, slime mold
• Traps
• Moles, skunks, wood chucks, etc.
• Barriers
• Roots
• Repellants
• Vertebrates

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Spider and wasp
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Chinch bug and Big-eyed bug
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Biological Controls

• Encourage natural enemies
• Limit pesticide use
• Select friendly pesticides
• Prevent unacceptable injury
• Do not attempt pest eradication

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Biological Controls

• Increase natural enemies
• Insect release
• Predators, parasites
• Pathogen based insecticides
• Bt
• Naturally occurring

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Bt for control of cutworms