UMCE Pest Management

 

 

Blueberry IPM


UMCE Wild Blueberry and Cranberry Office
Wild Blueberries in the United States
Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station
Wild Blueberry Association of North America
Wild Blueberry Network Information Centre
Monitoring for the Blueberry Maggot
Blueberries as a source of antioxidants
Michigan State University Blueberry Citation Database
USDA Wild Blueberry Crop Profile

  Wild Blueberry News
A monthly newsletter for commercial blueberry growers. For subscription information contact Nan Jones at (207) 581-2787 or 1-800-287-7170 (in Maine).

Blueberry information available from the UMCE Publications Catalog:

Blueberry Diseases 1
2-pg. color fact sheet on mummyberry, botrytis blight and red leaf in wild blueberries.
#2015, Free

Blueberry Enterprise Budget
3-pg. fact sheet for commercial wild blueberry growers.
#2016, Free

Blueberry Flea Beetle
2-pg. wild blueberry fact sheet with color photos.
#2372, Free

Blueberry Leaf Beetle
2-pg. wild blueberry fact sheet with color photos.
#2369, Free

Blueberry Sawfly
2-pg. wild blueberry fact sheet with color photos.
#2285, Free

Blueberry Spanworm
2-pg. wild blueberry fact sheet with color photos.
#2371, Free

Blueberry Thrips
2-pg. wild blueberry fact sheet with color photos.
#2373, Free

Disease Control Guide for Wild Blueberries
3-pg. guide; updated annually. Includes information on prevention, cultural and chemical techniques.
#2000, Free

Filling Bare Spots in Blueberry Fields
4-pg. wild blueberry fact sheet with drawings.
#2057, Free

Growing Highbush Blueberries
2-pg. fact sheet.
#2253, Free

Hexazinone Best Management System for Wild Blueberry Fields
4-pg. wild blueberry fact sheet.
#2276, Free

Highbush Blueberry Production Guide
200 pgs., with color photos, in 3-ring binder (Northeast Regional Agricultural Engineering Service publication).

#2270, $45.00

Insect Control Guide for Wild Blueberries
4 pgs., includes chart of toxicity to non-target species, cultural and chemical techniques; updated annually.
#2001, Free

Integrated Crop Management Field Scouting Guide for Lowbush Blueberries
9-pg. wild blueberry fact sheet describes integrated crop management techniques. Includes charts.
#2275, Free

Lowbush Blueberry Nutrition Series, Fertilizing with Nitrogen and Phosphorus
3-pgs., with fertilizer recommendations.
#2094, Free

Lowbush Blueberry Nutrition Series, N-P-K
3 pgs., with nutrient level standards.
#2093, Free

Lowbush Blueberry Nutrition Series: Leaf and Soil Sampling Procedures
4-pg. fact sheet with figures.
#2092, Free

Monitoring for the Blueberry Maggot
4-pg. wild blueberry fact sheet with color pictures.
#5030, Free

Postemergence Grass Control for Wild Blueberries
2 pgs., with broadcast and spot spray recommendations.
#2148, Free

Roundup for Weed Control in Wild Blueberries
4-pg. fact sheet with techniques and precautions.
#2176, Free

Sources of Lowbush Blueberry Plants
1-pg. fact sheet.
#2256, Free

Velpar for Weed Control in Lowbush Blueberries
6-pgs., with techniques and precautions; also includes actual labeling samples.
#2191, Free

Weed Control Guide for Wild Blueberries
3 pgs. of cultural and chemical weed control methods; updated annually.
#2025, Free

Weed Management in Wild Blueberry Fields
4-pg. fact sheet with overall management information.
#2193, Free

Wild Blueberry Weeds Fact Sheet Series
2-pg. fact sheets with drawings and descriptions of various weeds:

Weeds 1
Gray birch, alder, willow, red maple, aspen.
#2194, Free


Weeds 2
Goldenrods, black-eyed Susan, New England aster.
#2195, Free


Weeds 3
Sheep laurel/lambkill, meadow-sweet, bunchberry, sweet fern, rose.
#2196, Free


Weeds 4
Chokecherry/wild black cherry, pin cherry, bracken, interrupted and hay-scented ferns.
#2197, Free


Weeds 5
Vetch, low-running blackberry, strawberry, three-toothed and common clinquefoil.
#2198, Free


Weeds 6
Nannyberry, sugar plum/ shadbush, chokepear, black chokeberry, rhodora, and black or highbush huckleberry.

#2199, Free

Weeds 7
Dogbane, field/yellow hawkweed, St. Johnswort, sheep sorel, bush honeysuckle.
#2200, Free


Weeds 8
Grasses, sedges and rushes.
#2201, Free


Weeds 9
Pointed broom sedge, three-square sedge, quack-grass, wild oat-grass and little bluestem/bunch grass.
#2202, Free

Wild Blueberry Culture in Maine
4-pg. fact sheet; includes information on species, growth and production.
#2088, Free


For more information contact:


Dave Yarborough
, Blueberry Specialist
414 Deering Hall
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5722
(207) 581-2923
 

Jim Dill, IPM Coordinator
491 College Ave.
Orono, ME 04473-1295
(207) 581-3880

 

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UMCE Pest Management Last Modified: 10/31/07
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