Integrated pest management (IPM) couples both methods and includes monitoring to reduce the overuse of pesticide applications.

Diseases, insects, and weeds can cause costly and irreparable harm to livestock and crops. Methods of Safe Spray Control to manage these problems include the use of pesticides or biological pest control. Pest management aims to develop and extend effective, affordable, and environmentally-sound control strategies.

Damage from pests often results in vast economic consequences. They threaten the health of our nation’s vital agricultural, natural lands, and urban areas. Among the adverse impacts are:

Infestation of farms, rangelands, and forests, Obstructions to streams and waterways, Damage to crops, Loss of wildlife habitats, Disease and quality of life impacts in populated areas

Although demand and acreage for organic crops have been rising, effective tools for organic pest management are limited. Organic growers need to deploy available pest management tools strategically that includes utilizing monitoring tools, cultural practices, biological control, any other preventative options available as much as feasible. Organic growers should not solely rely on insecticides as they are costly, and the majority of them may not be very effective compared to the chemical insecticides used in conventional orchards.

Navel orange worm (NOW) is the most damaging pest across three major nut crops grown in California. There are well established cultural practices (winter sanitation, early harvest) and newer options such as mating disruption technique available.

The second major group of the insect pests of concern is true bugs, mainly leaf footed bug and a few species of the stink bugs. Now, with the spread of the new invasive stink bug species, brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) to crops including damage to almond, there is a desperate need for exploring some new tools to control these bugs, especially in organic production systems.

The third group of the arthropod pests of the nut crops is spider mites. Some cultural practices such as a drier orchard environment can foster the mite population, and practices that reduce these conditions can reduce the mite population.

The fourth group of insects is relatively small sucking insect pests such as aphids, mealy bugs, and scale insects. Conducting regular monitoring and sampling is highly recommended to track the insect pest, and predator dynamics population in orchards.



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