Managing Turfgrass Pests

About this book

This book places all pest management in turfgrass into a single volume and employs management as the major thrust of control. Development of cultural methods for control of individual pest, chemical control methods, and detailed descriptions of individual pests in each section are followed by extensive cultural management tips. Find out how to accurately diagnose the onset of infestation; how to identify pests and gain knowledge of their cycles, when and where they attack, and the damage thay leave in their wake; and how to control them using a plethora of detailed options. The book covers all cool and warm season grasses, and includes a 24-page, 4 colour section with over 100 detailed drawings and colour photographs of turfgrass insects.

Contents

Turfgrass Weeds and Their Management (T.L. Watschke) Introduction. Managing Summer Annual Grasses: Crabgrasses. Goosegrass. Foxtail. Barnyardgrass. Fall Panicum. Dallisgrass. Sandbur. Managing Winter Annual Grasses: Poa annua. Managing Perennial Grasses and Sedges: Creeping Bentgrass. Tall Fescue. Orchardgrass. Timothy. Smooth Brome. Quackgrass. Nimblewill. Bermudagrass. Zoysiagrass. Nutsedge. Rescuegrass. Managing Summer Annual Broadleaf Weeds: Oxalis. Knotweed. Spotted Spurge. Purslane. Prostrate Pigweed. Lambsquarters. Puncturevine. Ragweed. Carpetweed. Kochia. Florida Pusley. Sow Thistle. Brass Buttons. Managing Winter Annual Broadleaf Weeds: Common Chickweed. Henbit. Shepherd's Purse. Corn Speedwell. Bedstraw. Dog Fennel. Peppergrass. Managing Biennials: Yellow Rocket. Wild Carrot. Black Medic. Managing Perennial Broadleaf Weeds: Wild Garlic. Dandelion. White Clover. Plantain. Buckhorn. Mouse-Ear Chickweed. Mallow. Ground Ivy. Sheep Sorrel. Canada Thistle. Chickory. Curly Dock. Bull Thistle. Healall. Ox-Eye Daisy. Hawkweed. Thyme-Leaf Speedwell. Creeping Speedwell. Violet. Stitchwort. Bindweed. Bellflower. Cinquefoil. Yarrow. Moss. Betony. Beggarweed. Bur Clover. English Daisy. Oxalis (Creeping). Weed Management IPM. References. Turfgrass Diseases and Their Management (P.H. Dernoeden) Introduction. Monitoring Disease and Establishing Thresholds. Relationship of Environmental Conditions and Cultural Practices to Disease. Biological Control of Turfgrass Diseases. Winter Diseases: Pink Snow Mold or Fusarium Patch. Gray Snow Mold or Typhula Blight. Yellow Patch or Cool Temperature Brown Patch. Low Temperature Pythium or Snow Blight. Diseases Initiated in Fall or Spring that May Persist into Summer: Red Thread and Pink Patch. Helminthosporium Leaf Spot and Melting-Out. Take-All Patch. Necrotic Ring Spot. Spring Dead Spot. Large Patch of Zoysiagrass. Pythium Root Rot. Dollar Spot. Stripe Smut and Flag Smut. Powdery Mildew. Anthracnose. Ascochyta and Leptosphaerulina Leaf Blights. Yellow Tuft or Downy Mildew. Diseases Initiated During Summer that May Persist into Autumn: Bermudagrass Decline. Brown Patch or Rhizoctonio Blight. Pythium Blight. Summer Patch. Fusarium Blight. Southern Blight. Helminthosporium Leaf Spot, Melting-Out and Red Leaf Spot. Curvularia Blight. Nigrospora Blight. Copper Spot. Fairy Rings. Superficial Fairy Ring. Localized Dry Spot. Yellow Ring. Gray Leaf Spot. Cercospora Leaf Spot. White Blight. Slime Mold. Rust. Seedling Diseases and Damping-Off. Virus Diseases: St. Augustine Decline and Centipede Mosaic. Bacterial Diseases: Bacterial Wilt. Plant Parasitic Nematodes. Algae and Black-Layer. Factors Associated with Fungicide Use: Fungicide Use in Lawn Care. Fungicide Use on Golf Courses. Types of Fungicides. Fungicide Application. Turfgrass Insect and Mite Management (D.J. Shetlar) Goal of Insect and Mite Management in Turf: Pest Identification. Pest Life Cycles. Turf, A Unique Habitat. Monitoring. Selecting App

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