INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT IN THE NORTHEAST REGION
Third Edition

Rising to the FQPA Challenge

photo by R. Way

CONTENTS:

• IPM CONTACTS IN THE NORTHEAST REGION
• INTRODUCTION
• RISING TO THE FQPA CHALLENGE
  • FQPA and IPM
  • Cutting Cucumber Pesticides Won't Put Maryland Growers in a Pickle. Growers in this IPM program can eliminate certain pesticide applications.
  • Mushroom IPM: Button Up and Stay Clean. Producers in Delaware use IPM extensively to protect their crop, achieve high quality, and reduce pesticide use.
  • Apple IPM Gets Juiced-Up. In West Virginia, a pest management system for processing apples avoids use of pesticides on the FQPA review list.
  • Growers Invite Apple Maggots to a Ball. Instead of broadcast applications of pesticides, researchers are developing deadly traps to lure and kill the insidious apple maggot.
  • Tomato IPM: Getting Off Schedule, On Purpose. New Jersey tomato growers reduce pesticides by using disease predictions based on computerized mathematical models.
  • Helpful Fungus is More Than a Wanna-Bee. Bees transport a new cure for a well-known strawberry disease.
  • Project AIMs to Help Apple Growers. Maine develops pest prediction models that give growers a preview of coming events.
  • Microbe Against Microbe to Keep Wheat Fit. An international collaboration plans to fight disease by introducing beneficial bacteria.
• ENLISTING MOTHER NATURE
  • Taming the Beautiful Beast. Connecticut researchers use a friendly European insect that is helping to manage purple loosestrife.
  • Biocontrol Lab Supports Regional IPM
    Legal immigration of beneficial insectsis the catch phrase in Rhode Island.
  • Diseases That Aim to Please. In Vermont, a research team develops insect-killing fungi for vegetables, ornamentals, and forest trees.
• IPM BEYOND THE FARM
  • Wired for Homeowner I-P-Mformation. Need help with ants? Call Maryland.
  • Public and Private Together Build IPM Program. IPM infiltrates the Green Industries in PA.
  • Growers Warm to Hothouse IPM. IPM is flowering for New Hampshire poinsettia growers.
• NORTHEAST IPM - PROJECTS FUNDED IN 1997

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