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A publication about growing highbush blueberries:
A Pocket Guide to IPM Scouting in Highbush Blueberries

This plastic-coated scouting guide with its 3.5" X 5.0" pages is designed to fit in your pocket for easy field use. With color pictures and descriptions, it will help you to identify common pests and their damage, beneficials, common diseases, physiological/chemical disorders, and growth stages. It also includes scouting clanedars.(ordering information) The following are included in the guide:
 

Insects and mites
Aphids
Blueberry blossom weevil
Blueberry bud mite
Blueberry gall midge
Blueberry maggot
Blueberry mealybug
Blueberry stem gall wasp
Blueberry tip borer
Cherry fruitworm
Cranberry fruitworm
Cutworms
Flower thrips

Fruitworms
Gypsy moth
Japanese beetle
Leafrollers
Obliquebanded leafroller
Oriental beetle
Plum curculio
Scales
Sharpnosed leafhopper
Spanworms
White-marked tussock moth
Blueberry maggot
     

Diseases
Alternaria leaf spot and fruit rot
Anthracnose fruit rot (ripe rot)
Armillaria root rot
Bacterial canker
Botryosphaeria stem blight
Botryosphaeria stem canker
Botrytis blight and fruit rot
Crown gall
Cylindrocladium rot
Dodder
Exobasidium fruit and leaf spot
Fusicoccum canker
Leaf mottle
Leaf rust
Leaf spot diseases (various)
Mosaic
Mummy berry
Necrotic ringspot

Nematodes
Phomopsis canker and twig blight
Phyllosticta leaf spot, fruit rot,
berry speckle
Phytophthora root rot
Postharvest fruit rots
Powdery mildew
Red leaf
Red ringspot
Ripe rot
Scorch
Shock
Shoestring
Sooty blotch
Stunt
Tomato ringspot
Witches' broom

Closeup look at mummyberry.
Photo credit: Bill Cline
  Abiotic injury 
2,4-D injury
Bird damage
Clomazone (Command) injury
Diuron (Karmex, Direx) injury
Drought injury
Edema
Fruit defects (miscellaneous)
Glyphosate (Roundup) injury
Hail damage
Hexazinone (Velpar) injury
Iron deficiencey
Magnesium deficiency
Nitrogen deficiency
Norflurazon (Solicam) injury
Paraquat (Gramoxone) injury
Phosphorus deficiency
Postemergent herbicides
Potassium deficiency
Preemergent herbicides
Rain cracking
Road-salt injury
Shriveling of Elliott fruit
Simazine (Princep) injury
Spray injury
Terbacil (Sinbar) injury
Winter injury 		Beneficial organisms 
Assassin bugs
Blueberry maggot parasitoid
Braconids
Damsel bugs
Green lacewing
Ground beetle
Ichneumonids
Ladybeetles
Minute pirate bugs
Multicolored Asian ladybeetle
Natural enemies
Parasitic wasps
Predatory mites
Robber fly
Shield bugs
Spiders
Syrphid fly
Tachinid fly
Trichogramma wasps  
Magnesium deficiency symptoms.
 

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View information on similar guides for stone fruit, blueberries, grapes, woody landscape plants, and natural enemies in field crops.

This 128-page guide is intended as a field supplement to standard references such as Highbush Blueberry production Guide, Compendium of Blueberry and Cranberry Diseases, Midwest Small Fruit Pest Mangament Handbook, Michigan Fruit Management Guide (E-154), F ruit Crop Ecology and Management, and Blueberry Fact Sheet Series.

Compiled and edited by: Annemiek Schilder, Rufus Isaacs, Eric Hanson, Bill Cline
Graphic designers: Joy Landis and Rebecca Lamb, MSU IPM Program
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The MSU IPM Program maintains this site as an access point to pest management information at MSU. The IPM Program is administered within the Department of Entomology, fueled by research from the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, delivered to citizens through MSU Extension, and proud to be a part of Project GREEEN.
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Update: 06/21/06