PESTS AND BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

A Guide to growing Thripobius semiluteus - K.J. Froud - Hortnet NZ

A Pest Management Plan for Avocado Production in California - USDA CSREES

A Potential Biological Control Agent For Greenhouse Thrips - K.J. Froud, P.S. Stevens and D.R. Cowley - Hortnet NZ

Amorbia (Western Avocado Leafroller) - Amorbia cuneana - UC Davis IPM

Amorbia: A California Avocado Insect Pest - J. Blair Bailey and Michael P. Hoffmann

An Ophiostoma species and Xyleborus glabratus Threaten Red Bay (Persea borbonia) and Other Members of the Lauraceae in the Southeastern USA - Stephen W. Fraedrich Thomas C. Harrington and Robert J. Rabaglia

Assessing Host Ranges for Parasitoids and Predators used for Classical Biological Control: A guide to Best Practice – Forest Technology Enterprise team- USDA and US Forest Service

Avocado Brown Mite -Oligonychus punicae - UC Davis IPM

Avocado lace bug - Pseudacysta perseae (Heidemann) - University of Florida

Avocado Lace Bug, Pseudacysta perseae (Heidemann - F. W. Mead and J. E. Peña -from EDIS

Avocado Pests Information - Jim Davis - American Insectaries 

Armored Scales - California red scale: Aonidiella aurantii; Dictyospermum scale: Chrysomphalus dictyospermi; Greedy scale: Hemiberlesia rapax; Latania scale: Hemiberlesia lataniae - UC Davis IPM

Avocado Thrips - Scirtothrips perseae - UC Davis IPM

Avocado Thrips Biology and Control. AvoResearch. 2003. - Hoddle, Mark, Morse, Joseph G.

Avocado thrips: New challenge for growers - M. Hoddle et al. 2002. California Agriculture 56(3): 103-107

Avocado - Year-Round IPM Program - UC IPM Online

Beneficial for biological pest control - Rincon-Vitova Insectaries

Biology and Management of Avocado Thrips - Mark S. Hoddle

Biological Control - A Guide to Natural Enemies in North America and much more - Cornell University

Biological Control - Fred Legner - History of Biological Pest Control

Biological Control - UCR Department of Entomology - Mark S. Hoddle, Principal Investigator

Branch and Twig Borer - Melalgus (=Polycaon) confertus - UC Davis IPM

Brown Garden Snail -Helix aspersa - UC Davis IPM

Caterpillar Pests of Avocados / Los gusanos nocivos que atacan a los aguacates - Phil A. Philips

Control de Plagas y Malezas por Enemigos Naturales -  R.G. Van Driesch, M.S. Hoddle, T.D. Center from USDA Forest Service

False Chinch Bug - Nysius ericae - UC Davis IPM

Fuller Rose Beetle - Pantomorus cervinus - UC Davis IPM

Glossary of Entomology - Entomology Purdue University

Greenhouse Thrips - Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis - UC Davis IPM

Insect and Mite Pests of Avocados / Plagas que afectan a los aguacates, incluyendo los insectos y los ácaros (las arañitas) - Phil A. Philips

Insect Management in Avocados - Jorge Pena and Freddie Johnson - from EDIS (Florida Cooperative Extension Database)

June Beetles (Scarabs) - Coenonycha testacea, Serica fimbriata, and Serica alternata - UC Davis IPM

Laurel wilt - Redbay (Persea borbonia) and other Lauraceae species attacked by an ambrosia beetle (Xyleborus glabratus) a vector for the ambrosial fungus (Raffaelea species)

Measuring Mite Feeding on Avocado Leaves with Automated Image Analysis Software - V. Kerguelen and M.S. Hoddle. 1999. Florida Entomologist  82(1):119-122

Omnivorous Looper - Sabulodes aegrotata -UC Davis IPM

Omnivorous Looper on Avocados in California - J. Blair Bailey and Michael P. Hoffmann

Orange Tortrix - Argyrotaenia citrana - UC Davis IPM

Persea Mite - Oligonychus perseae - UC Davis IPM

Persea Mite Biology and Monitoring - Mark S. Hoddle

Pest management and weather data from UC Davis IPM

Research on Persea Mite, Oligonychus perseae and Avocado thrips Scirtothrips perseae - The home page for Mark Hoddle, Extension Entomologist, University of California, Riverside

Sixspotted Mite - Eotetranychus sexmaculatus - UC Davis IPM

Soft Scales - Black scale: Saissetia oleae; Brown soft scale: Coccus hesperidum; European fruit lecanium: Parthenolecanium corni; Hemispherical scale: Saissetia coffeae - UC Davis IPM

Some Natural Enemies Found in Avocados / Algunos enemigos naturales que se encuentran en los aguacates - Phil A. Philips

Some Natural Enemies Found in Avocados II / Algunos enemigos naturales que se encuentran en los aguacates II - Phil A. Philips

The genus Scirtothrips in Mexico - Mound and Strassen

The avocado fruit borer and its biological control - German Arellano Cruz - Peru 

The Redbay Ambrosia Beetle, Xyleborus glabratus Eichhoff (Scolytinae: Curculionidae) - Albert E. Mayfield III, Michael C. Thomas

Whiteflies - Giant whitefly: Aleurodicus dugesii; Greenhouse whitefly: Trialeurodes vaporariorum;
Mulberry whitefly: Tetraleurodes mori; Nesting whitefly: Paraleyrodes minei;Redbanded whitefly: Tetraleurodes perseae - UC Davis IPM