Pest Management

Selected Readings and Content

• Disease Cycles (password protected; Maine Master Gardeners, please see your MGV contact for the password), by Mary McKellar, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University
• Entomology (password protected; Maine Master Gardeners, please see your MGV contact for the password), by Jeffrey Hahn, Professor and Assistant Extension Entomologist, University of Minnesota; edited by Clay Kirby, University of Maine
  • Insect Management for the Home Vegetable Garden, (note: Biological controls listed in this publication are not all approved for use in the state of Maine), University of Massachusetts Cooperative Extension
• Plant Pathology (password protected; Maine Master Gardeners, please see your MGV contact for the password), by Michelle Grabowski, Regional Extension Educator, University of Minnesota; edited by Bruce Watt, University of Maine

UMaine Extension and State Websites

• Insect & Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab
• Maine Board of Pesticides Control
• Pest Identification and Management for Maine Homeowners

UMaine Extension Bulletins

• Managing Diseases in the Home Garden, Bulletin #2753
• Insect fact sheets — Including Mosquito Management and Tick Pest Management
• Plant disease fact sheets
• Getting Started with IPM (PDF)
• Woodland IPM (PDF)

UMaine Extension Videos

• Defending Against Spotted Wing Drosophila
• How to Get Rid of Japanese Beetles
• Identifying Late Blight
• Managing Late Blight

Weed Management

• Weeds in the Home Vegetable Garden (PDF), Virginia Cooperative Extension
• Weeds Management in Small Fruit Crops (PDF), Virginia Cooperative Extension
• Missouri Weed ID, University of Missouri Cooperative Extension
• Weeds of the Northeast, USDA NRCS Service
• Rutgers Weed Gallery, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
• UMASS Weed Herbarium, University of Massachusetts Cooperative Extension

Additional Resources

• Maine Yardscaping IPM Page — For Information on Integrated Pest Management
• Fighting the Emerald Ash Borer in Maine
• First Detector Training — Information and Links
• Insect Orders (PDF), Colorado State University Extension Master Gardener Program
• Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Division of Animal and Plant Health
• Obsolete Pesticide Disposal information
• Insect and Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab, Plant Disease Images
• Home and Garden IPM Photo Gallery