Vegetable Pests

Please visit the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management (UCIPM) Program website for an extensive list of pest management and identification sites: UC IPM website

Additional sources:

• Nematodes, Pest Notes Publication 7489 (2001, 295 kb)
• Pesticides for Specialty Crops, UCANR Publication 7293 (2000, 98 kb)
• Sclerotinia diseases, UCANR Publication 8042 (2001, 372 kb)

Other publications for pests not on the UC IPM website:

• Bt for caterpillar control (15 kb)
• Beetle, Western twelve-spotted cucumber (130 kb)
• Codling moth control options near waterways, San Joaquin County Field Notes newsletter (May 2009)
• Cutworms (118 kb)
• Degree days in relation to an integrated pest management program (136 kb)
• Earworms, corn (17 kb)
• Earworms, sweet corn, organic control (7 kb)
• Galls on plants caused by insects (455 kb)
• Needle nematode: an important plant parasitic nematode of the Imperial Valley, Imperial County Ag Briefs newsletter (Oct. 2009)
• Nematode, parasitic for biological control of insect pests (549 kb)
• Praying mantis (24 kb)
• Root-knot nematodes in tomatoes and “resistance-breaking” strains, San Joaquin County Field Notes newsletter (May 2009)
• Soap spray as insecticide (12 kb)
• Sowbugs and pillbugs (15 kb)
• How yellow traps catch insects (14 kb)
• Links to biological control websites
  • Cornell University, Biological Control: A guide to natural enemies in North America
  • Cornell Unversity IPM Program
  • North Carolina State University IPM Information
  • North Carolina State University, Biological Control Information Center
  • Purdue University, Extension Entomology, Biological Control
  • University of California Statewide IPM Program