| |
Publication Type:
| Trade |
Author(s): | Gathercole, William H. |
Author Affiliation: | Sales Agronomist, Green Valley Fertilizer Ltd., Turfgrass Instructor, Kwantlen University College |
Title: | Integrated pest management strategies for turfgrass pests |
Column Name: | The turfgrass world according to W. H. G. Other records with the "The turfgrass world according to W. H. G." Column
|
Source: | Turf & Recreation. Vol. 13, No. 7, November/December 2000, p. 48, 50-54. |
Publishing Information: | Delhi, Ontario: Turf & Recreation Publishing, Inc. |
# of Pages: | 6 |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Golf courses; Integrated Pest Management; Pest control; Endophytes; Preventive control; Thatch control; Fertilization; Mowing; Pest control decision rules; Listronotus maculicollis; Agrotis ipsilon; Ataenius spretulus; Sphenophorus parvulus; Digitaria; Taraxacum officinale; Broadleaf weeds; Rhizotrogus majalis; Fungal diseases; Blissus leucopterus hirtus; Chemical control
|
Abstract/Contents: | Describes Integrated Pest Management steps, including IPM step No. 1: identification of the organism damaging turf." Also describes IPM step No. 2: preventing the organism from damaging turf through "preventative methods used in integrated pest management at the time of turf establishmet,...endophyte-enhanced turfgrasses,...preventive methods used in integrated pest management during turf maintenance,...thatch reduction,...fertilization practices,...[and] mowing practices." Also describes IPM step No. 3: determining the necessity of a direct method of controlling the organism damaging turf. Discusses "examples of factors that will determine the necessity of a direct method of controlling various pests that are damaging to turf." Describes IPM step No. 4: resorting to direct methods of controlling the organism damaging turf. Also describes IPM step No. 5: analyzing and evaluating the situation after having executed a direct intervention on the organism damaging turf. |
Language: | English |
References: | 0 |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Gathercole, W. H. 2000. Integrated pest management strategies for turfgrass pests. Turf Recreat. 13(7):p. 48, 50-54. |
| Fastlink to access this record outside TGIF: https://tic.msu.edu/tgif/flink?recno=73201 |
| If there are problems with this record, send us feedback about record 73201. |
| Choices for finding the above item: |
| MSU catalog number: SB 433 .T882 |
| Request through your local library's inter-library loan service (bring or send a copy of this TGIF record) |