Enhancing Western Orchard Biological Control
| Personnel: | Jay Brunner Vince Jones Nick Mills |
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| Keywords: | IPM, biological control, apple, pear, walnut, insect |
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| Project description: | Enhancing Western Orchard Biological Control (EWOBC) is a collaborative SCRI project between Washington State University (lead institution), USDA-ARS, Oregon State University, and the University of California at Berkeley. The team is focused on ways to improve the stability of IPM programs in apple, pear, and walnut orchards, by enhancing biological control. Our team includes six entomologists, an insect geneticist, an economist, an extension specialist, and a sociologist. |
| Outputs: | A new interactive short course about natural enemies and novel tools to maximize biological control will be offered in February 2012. Although focused on apple, pear and walnut orchard systems, the information presented in this 2-day short course is helpful and relevant to most perennial cropping systems. For more information visit the (webpage):
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| Institution: | WSU, OSU, USDA-ARS, U of C, Berkeley |
| State: | WA, OR, CA |