[Mastgar] Websites on insects.
I thought you might find the following excerpt from the current
Pennsylvania Hort Society newsletter useful:
At a recent PHS lecture, Longwood Gardens IPM coordinator Dr. Casey Sclar
discussed this season's top pests and beneficial insects. These web sites
will help you learn more about the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Japanese beetle:
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/housing/japane
se-beetle/jbeetle.html
Fall webworm: http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2026.html
Hemlock woolly adelgid:
http://www.fs.fed.us/na/morgantown/fhp/hwa/hwasite.html
Asian longhorned beetle: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/alb/index.htm
http://www.uvm.edu/albeetle
Insects that feed on leaves -- sawflies, caterpillars, leafminers, and
leaf beetles:
http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/entomology/ornament
als/part2.html
Insects that bore into the wood:
http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/entomology/ornament
als/part3.html
Insects that feed by sucking plant juices -- scale insects, spider mites,
and aphids:
http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/entomology/ornament
als/part1.html
Longwood's IPM program is described on their web site with examples,
articles, and links: http://www.longwoodgardens.org/IPM/home.htm
The Morris Arboretum Plant Clinic will help you identify pests and select
an IPM solution: http://www.upenn.edu/paflora/plantclinic/index.html
Cornell University hosts a site that provides information on beneficial
insects and biological controls, including a list of suppliers.
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/
Stanley Crist
12600 Marion Lane #420
Minnetonka MN 55305
Phone 952 540 6358
scrist@juno.com
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