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    Lorraine P. Berkett, IPM Specialist

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2000-2001 New England Apple Pest Management Guide
Order Form Enclosed

The new edition of the New England Apple Pest Management Guide is due from the printers any day now.  Extensive changes have been made to the Guide which are summarized, as follows, by Glen Koehler,  who was the overall editor.

The Guide includes:

1.  Sequential sampling charts and diagnostic photographs to distinguish between scab and other leaf spots to identify "low-scab-risk" blocks in the autumn.  Such blocks would qualify for the Delayed First Spray strategy the following spring.  Many other changes to disease biology and management profiles, including revisions to the fire blight blossom infection prediction model.

2.  Extensive changes (with emphasis on monitoring, threshold, sample and treatment timing, and management strategy) or new sections added for apple aphid, rosy apple aphid, wooly apple aphid, codling moth, cutworms, green fruitworms, green pug moth, Japanese beetle, leafrollers, lesser appleworm, oriental fruit moth, leafminers, San Jose scale, European red mites, and twospotted spider mites. 

3.  Personal protective equipment required for entry during Restricted Entry Interval by scouts and pesticide handlers.  Measurement conversions added, abbreviations key improved.  All entries for Restricted Entry, Preharvest Interval, and storage requirements updated to 1999 or 2000 labels.

4.  New entries in Notes on Pesticides and efficacy ratings tables:  Flint, Sovran, Vangard, Confirm, Esteem, SpinTor, and Surround.  Basic label information for Danitol.  Expanded Bee Hazard ratings.  Numerous changes to existing fungicide and insecticide profiles.

5.  Extensive changes to the 'Pesticide Options for Bearing Tree' section.  Key monitoring activities for listed for each stage in the growing season

6.  Rewritten overview section for Groundcover management. 

7.  Extensive revisions to Chemical Thinning section.

8.  Twelve pages with 122 color photographs for pest and pest damage identification.

9.  Improved layout, improved index, and addition of section tab markers.

10.  Background work that will make it much easier to produce future editions.  The Guide is now in a more workable PageMaker file format, with unified style settings for text and graphics, and resetting of major tables as separate, cohesive, protected objects that are not disrupted by changes to preceding text. 

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