Integrated Pest Management for Raspberries

A Guide for Sampling and Decision-Making for Key Raspberry Pests in Northwest Washington

 

Acknowledgements

 

Acknowledgements

Nooksack IPM Advisory Committee

Introduction

Dormant and Pre-Bloom

Bloom/Pre-Harvest

Harvest Period

Post-Harvest

Insect Identification Sheets

Disease Identification Sheets

Tables and Charts

Pesticide Selection

IPM Resources

Pesticides and Water

The authors wish to express their appreciation to all members of the Nooksack IPM Project Advisory Committee for taking the time to attend meetings and to comment specifically on this document as it was being drafted. Input from the advisory committee through all phases of this project has been a critical ingredient in the advancement of IPM in raspberries and this document in particular.

We are also appreciative of the following individuals for their technical review:

Art Antonelli 
Pete Bristow 
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Lynell Tanigoshi

WSU Extension Entomologist, Puyallup, WA
WSU Plant Pathologist, Puyallup, WA
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Research Entomologist, Aggasiz, B.C., Canada
WSU Research/Extension Entomologist, Vancouver, WA

We are particularly grateful to those raspberry growers and advisors who cooperated with the IPM Mentoring task of the Nooksack IPM Project which allowed us to test these sampling procedures.

Brian Cieslar 
Randy Honcoop 
Tena Ondeck

Tri-Fruit, Lynden, WA
Lynden, WA
Lynden, WA

Through their general support of the Nooksack IPM Project in numerous ways, the following individuals have in one way or another made contributions which have influenced and added to this manual. Thanks to:

Malika Bounfour

WSU, Pullman, WA

Derek Gavette Whatcom Farmers Cooperative, Lynden, WA
Patrik Hertzog WSU Lynden Satellite Facility, Lynden WA
Bob Huber Wolfkill Feed and Fertilizer, Lynden, WA
Curt Maberry Curt Maberry Farm, Inc., Lynden, WA
Steve Midboe Whatcom Farmers Cooperative, Lynden, WA
Todd Murray WSU Technician Entomologist, Bellingham, WA
Dick Nydam NV Berries, Lynden, WA
Gretchen Ondeck summer field technician, Bellingham, WA
Faith Potter Best Sulfur Products, Fresno, CA
Martin Verbree NV Berries, Lynden, WA
Ladd Shumway Deming, WA

A special thanks to Cho-Cai Chan, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Dave Gillespie, Wes McDiarmid, Dave Raworth and particularly Jim Troubridge for providing numerous scanned slide images which were incorporated into this manual. All images provided by the above are courtesy of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, reproduced with permission of Public Works and Government Services Canada. Finally, a very special thanks to Becky Peterson, WSU Cooperative Extension, Whatcom County for her invaluable assistance in the layout and design of this manual.

 

       
 

G.W. Menzies & C.B. MacConnell, WSU Cooperative Extension Whatcom County
June 1998

Funded in part by: Washington State Department of Ecology through U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Section 319 Funds