Grower's IPM Guide for Florida Tomato and Pepper Production
The IPM Florida office has assembled an IPM decision making resource for Florida’s pepper and tomato industry.
We have compiled information into an interdisciplinary, comprehensive resource that will direct the user through the process of IPM planning. This guide presents the use of IPM tactics as means to reduce the risk of epidemics, conserve chemistries against resistance and reduce overall production costs.
If you have any questions about material in this guide please feel free to contact individual authors (contact information is listed on individual pages) or Dr. Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman via email gillett@ufl.edu or phone (352)392-1901 x 122.
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- Front cover 197KB (pdf)/ Back cover (198KB pdf)
- Table of Contents (144KB pdf)
- Chapter 1- Introduction WHY IPM? (352KB pdf)
- Chapter 2- Tomato and Pepper Production in Florida
- Chapter 3- Soil and Nutrient Management
- Chapter 4- Pest Management
- Entire Chapter (PDF 3808KB)
- Pest Monitoring (PDF 221 KB)
- Green Peach Aphid and Potato Aphid (PDF 230KB)
- Beet Armyworm (PDF 208KB)
- Broad Mite (PDF 251KB)
- Hornworm (PDF 355KB)
- Leafminer (PDF 234KB)
- Cabbage and Alfalfa Loopers (PDF 239KB)
- Mole Cricket (PDF 414KB)
- Pepper Weevil (PDF 221KB)
- Russet Mite (PDF 234KB)
- Southern Armyworm (PDF 245KB)
- Twospotted Spider Mite (PDF 226KB)
- Stinkbugs and Leaffooted Bugs (PDF 247KB)
- Thrips
- Florida flower thrips (PDF 281KB)
- Melon thrips (PDF 261KB)
- Tobacco thrips (PDF 284KB)
- Western Flower thrips (PDF 242KB)
- Tomato Fruitworm (PDF 204KB)
- Tomato Pinworm (PDF 180KB)
- Sweetpotato/Silverleaf Whitefly (PDF
226KB)
- Q-biotype (PDF 109KB)
- Management of Whiteflies, TYLCV and Insecticide Resistance (PDF 282KB)
- Yellowstriped Armyworm (PDF 205KB)
- Southern Plant Diagnostic Network (SPDN) (PDF 166KB)
- Pest Seasonality Charts (PDF 262KB)
- Chapter 5- Disease Management
- Chapter 6- Weed Management
- Chapter 7- Cultural Controls & Physical Controls
- Chapter 8- Biological Control
- Chapter 9- Chemical Control
- Appendix 1: Vegetable Pest & Disease Hotline
- Appendix 2: How to Sample Insects, Nematodes, Diseases and Soil (44KB pdf)
- Appendix 3: Calibration of Chemical Applicators Used in Vegetables (447KB pdf)
- Appendix 4: Weed-Herbicide Interaction Table
- Appendix 5: IRAC - Mode of Action List - Insecticides
- Appendix 6: FRAC - Mode of Action List - Fungicides (123KB pdf)
- Appendix 7: HRAC - Mode of Action List - Herbicides (92KB pdf)
- Appendix 8: National Pest Alert - Tospoviruses (206KB pdf)
- Appendix 9: Pesticide CEUs Available at the University of Florida (172KB pdf)