Growing Conifers for Homeowners Using Integrated Pest Management was a 90-minute webinar designed for Extension Master Gardeners and Extension Educators to learn more about integrated pest management of conifers. The recorded webinar is now available as part of a LEARNING MODULE at: http://campus.extension.org/course/view.php?id=1134. The Learning Module agenda is divided into 3, segments: planting and management of conifers, insect pests and diseases. Michigan State University Professor Bert Cregg on Selecting and Managing Conifers; University of Minnesota Extension Plant Pathologist Michelle Grabowski, speaks on Managing Conifer Diseases using IPM followed by Questions and Answers; and University of Minnesota Associate Professor Vera Krischik, teaches Managing Conifer Insects using IPM.
Resources on Growing Conifers with Integrated Pest Management:
Bert Cregg's videos at Fine Gardening: http://www.finegardening.com/playlist-videos.
Alternatives to blue spruce (title says Michigan but applies to Upper Midwest)
http://www.hrt.msu.edu/assets/PagePDFs/bert-cregg/AlternativestobluespruceBertCregg.pdf
Abiotic plant disorders
http://www.hrt.msu.edu/assets/PagePDFs/bert-cregg/schutski-and-cregg-abiotic.pdf
Conifer Disease References:
http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/diagnose/plant/evergreen/
http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/yard-garden/trees-shrubs/spruce-tree-diseases/
http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/yard-garden/trees-shrubs/brown-spot-needle-blight/index.html
http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/yard-garden/trees-shrubs/diplodia/
http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/yard-garden/trees-shrubs/dothistroma-needle-blight/
http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/yard-garden/trees-shrubs/pine-needle-rust/
http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/yard-garden/trees-shrubs/sirococcus-tip-blight/
http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/yard-garden/trees-shrubs/cedar-apple-rust-and-gymnosporangium-rusts/
http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/yard-garden/trees-shrubs/pine-oak-and-pine-pine-gall-rusts/
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/2014/Christmas%20Tree%20Pest%20Manual%203rd%20Edition.pdf
http://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/intropp/lessons/fungi/Basidiomycetes/Pages/WhitePine.aspx
IPM of Midwest Landscapes. Vera Krischik and J Davidson. 2004. MN AgExpSta, 316pp; Introductory chapters on tactics used in landscape IPM: http://www.entomology.umn.edu/cues/ipmbook.htm
Conifer insects sorted by common name or host plant: http://www.entomology.umn.edu/cues/IPM-trees/IPM-trees.html
Insecticides used in landscape IPM: http://www.entomology.umn.edu/cues/IPM-Pesticides/IPM-pesticides.html
Eastern spruce gall adelgid: http://www.entomology.umn.edu/cues/Web/108EasternSpruceGallAdelgid.pdf
Sawflies: http://www.entomology.umn.edu/cues/Web/196Sawflies.pdf
Soft scale, fletcher scale: http://www.entomology.umn.edu/cues/Web/137FletcherScale.pdf
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