Corn and Sorghum | Cotton | Flowers and Foliage | Forages | Fruit and Nuts | Herbaceous Plants | House Plants | Peanuts | Pesticides and Wildlife | Small Grains | Soybeans | Tobacco | Trees, Shrubs and Woody Ornamentals | Turf | Vegetables

Pest Management in Corn and Sorghum

• General Resources

  • North Carolina Agricultural Chemicals Manual
    
  • Crop Profile for Corn in North Carolina
    
  • Crop Profile for Sorghum in North Carolina
    
  • Scouting Corn in North Carolina
    

• Corn Insect Management

  • Corn Insect Management with Transgenic Bt Corn in North Carolina
  • Corn Rootworm Management in North Carolina Field Corn
  • Insect Pests of Corn & Sorghum
  • Management of Field Corn Insect Pests in North Carolina
  • Management of Southern Corn Billbug in Field Corn
    

• Corn Disease Management

  • Disease Management
    
  • Major Corn Diseases in North Carolina
    
  • Mycotoxins in Corn

• Corn Weed Management

  • Weed Management

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Pest Management in Cotton

• General Resources

  • Crop Profile for Cotton in North Carolina
  • Pesticides and Wildlife – Cotton

• Cotton Insect Management

  • Cotton Insect Corner
  • Cotton Insect Scouting Guide(En Español)
  • Pests of Cotton

• Cotton Disease Management

  • Bacterial Blight (Angular Leaf Spot) of Cotton
  • Cotton Seedling Diseases
  • Cotton Stem Canker, Wet Weather Blight, or Ascochyta Blight

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Pest Management of Flowers and Foliage Plants

• Insect and Related Pests of Flowers and Foliage Plants
  
• Pest Alerts
  
• Pest News (April through September)
  
• Rose Pest Management Calendar
  

• Insect Management of Flowers and Foliage Plants

  • Insect Notes
    • Aphids
    • Beetles
    • Brown Soft Scale
    • Cyclamen and Broad Mite
    • Darkwinged Fungus Gnats
    • False Spider Mites
    • Flower Thrips
    • Greenhouse Whitefly
    • Hemispherical Scale
    • Japanese Beetle
    • Lady Beetles
    • Leafminer Flies
    • March Flies
    • Mealybugs
    • Pillbugs and Sowbugs
    • Silverleaf Whitefly
    • Slugs
    • Twospotted Spider Mite
    • Western Flower Thrips

• Disease Management of Flowers and Foliage Plants

  • Azalea Diseases and Their Control
  • Damping-off in Seed Beds – Flower and Vegetable Seedlings
  • Dogwood Diseases
  • Entomosporium Leaf Spot on Red Tip
  • Phytophthora Root Rot and Its Control on Established Woody Ornamentals
  • Rhododendron Diseases
  • Rose Diseases and Their Control in the Home Garden
  • Southern Bacterial Wilt on Marigolds
  • Juniper Diseases and Their Control in the Landscape
  • Common Diseases and Disorders with the Gold-Dust Plant, Aucuba japonica
  • Nematode Management in Bedding Plants in the Landscape
  • Powdery Mildew of Ornamentals and Shade Trees

• Weed Management of Flowers and Foliage Plants

  • Weed Management in Annual Color Beds
  • Weed Management for Wildflowers

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Pest Management in Forage

• General Resources

  • Scouting Alfalfa

• Forage Disease Management

  • Alfalfa Disease Management

• Forage Insect Management

  • Green June Beetle Grubs
  • Insects Found in Forage and Pasture
  • Pests of Forages and Pastures
  • Scouting for Insects in Alfalfa

• Forage Weed Management

  • Johnsongrass

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Pest Management of Fruits and Nuts

• Biological Control for the Home Gardener
• Disease and Insect Management in the Home Orchard
• Pest Alerts
• Pest News
• Horticultural Oils
  

• Insect Management of Fruits and Nuts

  • Apple
    • Integrated Orchard Management Guide for Commercial Apples in the Southeast
    • A Growers Guide to Apple Insects and Diseases in the Southeast
    • Biological Control of Mites on Apples in North Carolina(PDF)
  • Blueberry Pest Management — A seasonal Overview
  • Lady Beetles
    
  • Paper Wasps for Caterpillar Management
    
  • Strawberry
  • Strawberry Weevil
    

• Disease Management of Fruits and Nuts

  • Apple and Pear
    • A Growers Guide to Apple Insects and Diseases in the Southeast
      
    • Fire Blight of Apple and Pear
      
  • Blueberry
    • Blueberry – Stem Blight
      
    • Blueberry – Twig Blight
      
    • Fruit Rot Diseases of Blueberry
      
    • Leaf Diseases of Blueberry
      
    • Mummy Berry Disease of Blueberry
      
    • Phytophthora Root Rot of Blueberry
      
    • Blueberry Pest Management
      
  • Fig
    • Fig Diseases in North Carolina
      
  • Grape
    • Muscadine Grape Diseases and Their Control
      
  • Plum and Cherry
    • Black Knot of Plum and Cherry
      
  • Peach and Nectarine
    • North Carolina Peach and Nectarine Disease and Pest Management Guide (PDF)
      
    • Peach Scab
      
    • Nematode Control on Peaches and Management of the Peach Tree Short Life Complex
      
  • Pecan
    • Some Common Pecan Diseases and their Control in North Carolina
      
  • Strawberry
    • Strawberry Diseases and Their Control
      
    • Diagnosis of Strawberry Diseases (PDF)

• Weed Management of Fruits and Nuts

  • Weed Control Options for Strawberries on Plastic (PDF version)
  • Weed Management Considerations for Southeast Vineyards (PDF version)

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Pest Management of Herbaceous Plants

• Insect Management of Herbaceous Plants

  • Biocontrol in Closed Systems
    
  • Insect Screening for Green Houses
    
  • Sizing Insect Exclusion Screens for Greenhouses
    
  • Insects Found on Yellow Sticky Traps in the Greenhouse
    
  • INSV (Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus) and Western Flower Thrips
    
  • Insect Notes
    • Aphids
      
    • Beetles
      
    • Brown Soft Scale
      
    • Cyclamen and Broad Mite
      
    • Darkwinged Fungus Gnats
      
    • False Spider Mites
      
    • Flower Thrips
      
    • Greenhouse Whitefly
      
    • Hemispherical Scale
      
    • Japanese Beetle
      
    • Lady Beetles
      
    • Leafminer Flies
      
    • March Flies
      
    • Mealybugs
      
    • Pillbugs and Sowbugs
      
    • Silverleaf Whitefly
      
    • Slugs
      
    • Twospotted Spider Mite
      
    • Western Flower Thrips
      
    • Biocontrol In Closed Systems
      

• Disease Management of Herbaceous Plants

  • Rose Diseases and Their Control in the Home Garden
    
  • Powdery Mildew of Ornamentals and Shade Trees
    

• Weed Management of Herbaceous Plants

  • Weed Control in Flower Beds (PDF version)

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Pest Management of House Plants

• Interiorscape Integrated Pest Management
  
• Pest Alerts
  
• Pest News (April through September)
  

• Insect Management of House Plants

  • Aphids
    
  • Brown Soft Scale
    
  • Boxelder Bugs
    
  • Cyclamen Mite and Broad Mite
    
  • Darkwinged Fungus Gnats
    
  • Greenhouse Whitefly
    
  • Hemispherical Scale
    
  • Lady Beetles
    
  • Leafminer Flies
    
  • March Flies
    
  • Mealybugs
    
  • Pillbugs and Sowbugs
    
  • Sooty Molds
    
  • Silverleaf Whitefly
    
  • Western Flower Thrips
    

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Pest Management of Peanuts

• General Resources

  • NCSU Crop Science Peanut Publications and Related Information
    
  • Crop Profile for Peanuts in North Carolina
    
  • Integrated Pest Management Peanut Scouting Manual (PDF)
  • Tank Mixing Chemicals Applied to Peanut Crops: Are the Chemicals Compatible? (PDF)
  • Wildlife and Pesticides – Peanuts
    

• Peanut Insect Management

  • Pests of Peanuts
    
  • Southern Corn Rootworm Advisory for Peanut Pod Damage in North Carolina and Virginia
    

• Peanut Disease Management

  • Peanut Disease Guide – North Carolina and Virginia
    
  • Peanut Disease Information Notes
    
  • Managing Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus in Peanuts in North Carolina and Virginia (PDF)

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Pesticides and Wildlife

• Pesticides and Wildlife – Christmas Trees
  
• Pesticides and Wildlife – Corn
  
• Pesticides and Wildlife – Cotton
  
• Pesticides and Wildlife – Fruit Trees
  
• Pesticides and Wildlife – Peanuts
  
• Pesticides and Wildlife – Small Grains
  
• Pesticides and Wildlife – Soybeans
  
• Pesticides and Wildlife – Tobacco
  

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Pest Management in Small Grains

• General Resources

  • Crop Profile for Small Grains in North Carolina
    
  • Pesticides & Wildlife-Small Grains
    
  • Scouting Small Grains
    

• Small Grain Insect Management

  • Hessian Fly
    
  • The Hessian Fly: A Pest of Wheat in North Carolina
    
  • Managing The Cereal Leaf Beetle in Small Grains and Corn
    
  • Pests of Small Grains
    
  • Preventive Measures for Reducing Damage to Bagged Commercial Seed in Warehouses
    

• Small Grain Disease Management

  • Understanding and Coping with Effects of Mycotoxins in Livestock Feed and Forage
    
  • Wheat and Small Grain Disease Management
    

• Small Grain Weed Management

  • Small Grain Weed Control
    

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Pest Management in Soybeans

• General Resources

  • Pesticides and Wildlife – Soybeans
    
  • Scouting Soybeans in North Carolina
    

• Soybean Insect Management

  • Pests of Soybeans
    
  • Soybean Insect Management
    

• Soybean Disease Management

  • Disease Resistance in Soybean
    
  • Frogeye Leaf Spot of Soybean
    
  • Identification and Management of Mid-to-Late Season Soybean Stem and Root Rots
    
  • Management of Lance Nematode on Soybean
    
  • Management
    of Soybean Cyst Nematode
    
  • Soybean Seed and Seedling Diseases
    

• Soybean Weed Management

  • Annual Broadleaf Weed Control
    
  • Annual Grass Control
    
  • Harvest Aid
    
  • Herbicide Resistance
    
  • Nutsedge Control
    
  • Perennial Broadleaf Weed Control
    
  • Perennial Grass Control
    
  • Postemergence Grass and Broadleaf Herbicide Combinations
    
  • Responsible Use of Herbicides
    
  • Scouting for Weeds in Soybean
    
  • Selecting a Herbicide Program
    
  • Sicklepod Control
    
  • Spray Adjuvants
    
  • Weed Management in Soybeans
    
  • Weed Management Strategies to Use in Conjunction with Herbicides
    

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Pest Management in Tobacco

• General Resources

  • Crop Profile for Tobacco in North Carolina
    
  • Pesticides and Human Health: Tobacco (PDF) (En Español Los pesticidas y la salud humana: tabaco) (PDF)
  • For Health Providers: Pesticides and Human Health: tobacco
    
  • Pesticides and Wildlife – Tobacco
    
  • Scouting Tobacco in North Carolina
    

• Tobacco Insect Management

  • Pests of Tobacco
    

• Tobacco Disease Management

  • Tobacco Blue Mold Forecast Center
    
  • Tobacco Disease Information Notes
    
    • Black Shank
      
    • Brown Spot
      
    • Collar Rot in Tobacco Greenhouses
      
    • Control of Tobacco Mosaic Virus on Flue-Cured Tobacco
      
    • Granville Wilt
      
    • Pythium Root Rot in Tobacco Greenhouses
      
    • Rhizoctonia Diseases in Tobacco Greenhouses
      
    • Tobacco Disease Management in Greenhouses
      

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Pest Management for Trees, Shrubs and Woody Ornamentals

• Integrated Pest Management for Municipalities
  
• Biological Control for the Home Gardener
  
• Pest Alerts
  
• Pest News (April through September)
  

• Insect Management for Trees, Shrubs and Woody Ornamentals

  • Insect Pest Calendars
    
  • Insects and Related Pests of Shrubs
    
  • Insect Pest Management Calendars
    • Azalea
      
    • Boxwood
      
    • Camellia and Crape Myrtle
      
    • Dogwood and Euonymus
      
    • Hemlock
      
    • Holly
      
    • Junipers
      
    • Leyland Cypress
      
    • Maple
      
    • Oak
      
    • Ornamental Cherry
      
    • Pine
      
    • Pyracantha
      
    • Rhododendron
      
    • Rose
      
  • Insect Notes
    
    • Aphids
      
    • Asian Ambrosia Beetle
      
    • Asian Ambrosia Beetle Trapping
      
    • Ash Whitefly
      
    • Azalea Leaf Miner
      
    • Azalea Stem Borer
      
    • Bagworms
      
    • Barklice
      
    • Beetles
      
    • Black Turpentine Beetle
      
    • Black Twig Borer
      
    • Black Vine Weevil
      
    • Boxelder Bugs
      
    • Boxwood Leaf Miner
      
    • Carpenterworm
      
    • Caterpillars
      
    • Cicadas
      
    • Cottony Cushion Scale
      
    • Cottony Maple Leaf Scale
      
    • Crapemyrtle Aphid
      
    • Cypress Weevil
      
    • Eastern Tent Caterpillar
      
    • Elm Leaf Beetle
      
    • Euonymus Scale
      
    • False Spider Mites
      
    • Fungus-Infected Flies
      
    • Galls on Oaks
      
    • Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
      
    • Hickory Horned Devil
      
    • Gloomy Scale
      
    • Hemispherical Scale
      
    • Indian Wax Scale
      
    • Japanese Beetle
      
    • Juniper Webworm
      
    • Lace Bugs
      
    • Leafminer Flies
      
    • Lecanium Scales
      
    • Locust Borer
      
    • Maple Gall Mites
      
    • Mealybugs
      
    • Pine Bark Adelgid
      
    • Planthoppers
      
    • Phylloxera
      
    • Silverleaf Whitefly
      
    • Slugs
      
    • Sooty Molds
      
    • Southern Pine Beetle
      
    • Southern Red Mite and Spruce Spider Mite
      
    • Tea Scale
      
    • Tent Caterpillar
      
    • Twig Girdler
      
    • Twobanded Japanese Weevil
      
    • Twolined Spittlebug
      
    • Twospotted Spider Mite
      
    • Wheel Bug
      
    • White  Pine Weevil
      
    • Wood-Boring Beetles
      
    • Woolly Alder Aphid
      
    • Yellow Jackets
      

• Disease Management for Trees, Shrubs and Woody Ornamentals

  • Phytophtora Root Rot and Its Control on Established Woody Ornamentals
    
  • Powdery Mildew of Ornamentals and Shade Trees
    
  • Scorch Diseases on Shade Trees
    
  • Slime Flux / Wet Wood
    
  • Some Common Pine Diseases in North Carolina Landscapes and Their Control
    
  • Azalea Diseases and Their Control
    
  • Dogwood Diseases
    
  • Dutch Elm Disease
    
  • Common Diseases and Disorders With the Gold-Dust Plant, Aucuba japonica
    
  • Holly Diseases and Their Control in the Landscape
    
  • Juniper Diseases and Their Control in the Landscape
    
  • Diseases of Leyland Cypress
    
  • Entomosporium Leaf Spot on Red Tip
    
  • Nematode
    Management in Bedding Plants in the Landscape
    
  • Nematodes and Their Control in Woody Ornamentals in the Landscape
    
  • Nematodes and Their Control on Woody Ornamentals in the Nursery
    
  • Root and Butt Rots of Oaks
    
  • Rhododendron Diseases
    
  • Some Common Pecan Diseases and Their Control in North Carolina
    

• Weed Management for Trees, Shrubs and Woody Ornamentals

  • Herbicide Products for Homeowners
    
  • Postemergence, Non-Selective Herbicides for Landscapes and Nurseries
    
  • Weed Management in Conifer Seed Beds
    

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Turf Pest Management

• Pest Alerts
  
• Pest Control for Turfgrass Managers (PDF)
  
• Pest Management Strategic Plan for Turfgrass in the Southern United States (PDF)
• Pesticide Selection For Water Quality Protection
  
• Pest News (April through September)
  
• Soil Temperature Reports Aid Turf Managers
  
• Water Quality and Commercial Lawn Care (PDF)
  
• Water Quality and Pesticide Selection for Professional Turf Managers (PDF)
  

• Turf Insect Management

  • Insect and Other Pests Associated with Turf
    
  • Insect Biology
    
  • Insect Management in Turf
    
  • Insect Notes
    • Bees in Turf
      
    • Chinch Bugs
      
    • Cicada Killer Wasps
      
    • Clover Mites in Home Lawns
      
    • A Complete Guide to Mole Crickets
    • Controlling Bald Faced Hornets and Yellow Jackets In and Around Structures
      
    • Crane Fly Larvae in Lawns
      
    • Crayfish in Home Lawns
      
    • Cutworms in Turf
      
    • Earthworms as Pests in Home Lawns
      
    • Fall Armyworm in Lawns
      
    • Ground Pearls
      
    • Japanese Beetle
      
    • Millipedes In and Around Homes
      
    • Mole Crickets
      
    • Organic and Sustainable Pest Management for Home Lawns
      
    • Red Imported Fire Ant
      
    • Rhodesgrass Mealybugs in Home Lawns
      
    • Managing the Two-lined Spittlebug in the Home Landscape
      
    • Scoliid Wasps
      
    • Sod Webworms
      
    • Springtails
      
    • White Grubs in Turf
      
  • Master Gardener Insect Guide for Ornamentals and Turf (PDF)
  • Nematode Damage and Management in Lawns
    
  • Ornamentals and Turf Insect Pest Management
    

• Turf Disease Management

  • Diseases of Cool Season Grasses – NO IMAGES
    
  • Diseases of Warm Season Grasses
    
  • High Soil Salts Injury
    
  • Long-Term Management Practices for Prevention of Turf Diseases
    
  • Nematode Damage And Management In Lawns
    

• Turf Weed Management

  • Algae and Moss Control in Turfgrass
    
  • Herbicide Products for Homeowners
  • Sedge Control in Grasses
    
  • Strategies for Turfgrass Weed Control with Preemergence Herbicides
    
  • Susceptibility of Broadleaf Weeds to Herbicide (PDF)
    
  • Weed Management in Wildflower Plantings
    
    
    

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Pest Management in Vegetable Production

• Extension Integrated Pest Management Program
  
• Biocontrol In Closed Systems (Greenhouses)
  
• Pest Alerts
  
• Pest News (April through September)
  
• Vegetables
  

• Insect Management in Vegetable Production

  • Insect and Related Pests of Vegetables
    
  • Insect Pests of Vegetables
    
  • Knowing and Managing Crucifer Pests
    
  • Know and Control Cucumber Pests
    
  • Know and Manage Pepper Pests
    
  • Knowing and Managing Sweet Potato Insects and Diseases
    
  • Insect Notes
    • Cucumber Pollination
      

• Disease Management in Vegetable Production

  • Botrytis Blight in Vegetable Greenhouse and Plant Beds
    
  • Crop Protectants for Controlling Diseases of Vegetable Crops in Greenhouses
    
  • Damping-off in Flower and Vegetable Seedlings
    
  • Disease Management for Vegetables and Herbs in Greenhouses Using Low Input Sustainable Methods
    
  • Managing Diseases in Home Vegetable Gardens (PDF)
  • Southern Blight of Vegetable Crops
    
  • High Soil Salts Injury to Vegetable Crops
    
  • Beans
    • Root Rots of Green Beans and Lima Beans
      
  • Greens
    • Diseases of Greens and Their Control
      
  • Cucurbits (Cucumbers, Squash, Melons)
    • Cucurbit Downy Mildew Forecast
      
    • Anthracnose of Cucurbits
      
    • Gummy Stem Blight and Phoma Blight of Cucurbits
      
    • Fruit Rots of Pickling and Slicing Cucumbers
      
    • Cantaloupe Diseases and Their Control
      
  • Cabbage
    • Black Rot of Cabbage and Related Crops
      
    • Club-Root of Cabbage and Related Crops
      
    • Sclerotinia Headrot of Cabbage
      
  • Herbs and Specialty Crops
    • Ginseng Disease Control – Phytophthora and Alternaria (PDF version)
  • Potato and Sweet Potato
    • Potato Vine Premature Decline in North Carolina
      
    • Sweetpotato Scurf
      
    • Streptomyces Soil Rot (Pox) of Sweetpotato
      
  • Tomatoes and Peppers
    • Sclerotinia Stem Rot of Tomatoes in Greenhouses
      
    • Virus Diseases of Greenhouse Tomatoes and Their Management
      
    • Bacterial Leaf Spot of Pepper and Tomatoes
      
    • Blossom-end Rot of Tomato, Pepper and Watermelon
      
    • Fungicide Spray Guide For Bell Peppers in North Carolina (PDF version)
    • Tomato Foliar Disease Fungicide Spray Guide For North Carolina (PDF version)

• Weed Management of Vegetables and Herbs

  • Weed Control in Vegetable Gardens (PDF version )
  • Weed Management in North Carolina: Broccoli, Cabbage, and Cauliflower (PDF)
  • Weed Management in North Carolina: Collards, Kale, Mustard, and Turnip Greens (PDF)
  • Weed Management in North Carolina: Lettuce (PDF)
  • Weed Management in North Carolina: Okra (PDF)
  • Weed Management in North Carolina: Onions (PDF)

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