Teaching Greenhouse Vegetable IPM strategies with Traditional and Innovative Methods
Project description and objectives:
It is important for Florida greenhouse vegetable producers to implement as many 
IPM exclusion strategies as possible to manage pests. Many of the serious insect pests of greenhouse vegetables, including aphids, silverleaf whitefly, and western flower thrips, require special control efforts due to their ability to vector plant viruses to the crop. Once these pests enter the greenhouse, growers have very few options to manage them. Therefore, excluding the pests from entering the greenhouse is critical.
Project activities and accomplishments:
A virtual tour of the IPM topics covered in this document can be viewed on the Virtual Field Day website of the University of Florida at http://vfd.ifas.ufl.edu/.
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Project leaders:
- Bob Hochmuth, Multi County Extension Agent, North Florida Research and Education Center, Suwannee Valley