Pests, Plant Diseases, and Weeds

This publication describes how commercial and backyard beekeepers can minimize colony losses and related problems by establishing nucleus colonies.

Reviewed by WSU specialist W.S. Sheppard. ...

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A comprehensive guide to insect management in commercial crops and environments and in home landscapes and gardens in the Pacific Northwest. Covers pesticide safety and toxicity, protecting bees, adjuvants, mixing tables, calibration, and biological control. Other sections cover a wide variety of agricultural and nonagricultural products such as commercial vegetables, small fruit, turf and ornamentals, hay and pasture, grains, seeds, home gardens, greenhouses, livestock, poultry, household, and public health. Each section describes pests, the damage they do, and recommended management.

This training manual is for pesticide applicators and/or consultants seeking a pesticide license category for managing problem wildlife in agricultural or urban environments.

A comprehensive guide to plant disease management in the Pacific Northwest. Visit the companion site for updates and ordering information. https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/plant

When is a slug not a slug? In this case when it's a shiny black sawfly. This insect, related to bees, ants, and wasps, favors pear and cherry, but attacks plum, hawthorn, quince, buttonbrush, and mou ...

Guide to control of diseases, insects, weeds, and vertebrate pests on commercial grapes. Weed controls - both soil-active and foliage-applied herbicides - are outlined for new and established plantings. Disease and insect controls are coordinated to pest and crop stage.

This manual is intended to help beginning pest control operators prepare for Washington State pesticide licensing exams.

This Pest Watch fact sheet provides information about brown marmorated stink bugs in Washington State so that concerned citizens can accurately identify these pests and take appropriate management act ...

This Pest Watch fact sheet on the Califonia Fivespined Ips, a pine bark beetle that has been found for the first time in Washington State, offers useful information on its history, distribution, and l ...