Best Management Practices

Best Management Practices by Applicable Pests : Bagrada bug (BB)

• Bagrada bug (BB)

Sanitation

• Keep nursery and loading areas clean, litter and weed free, and properly dispose of waste. - *
• For plants, avoid heat and moisture stress - *
• Use clean media and sterilize used pots, trays, and flats. - *
• Avoid monocultures by mixing susceptible and hardy plants -
• Keep records of incoming and outgoing stock as well as nursery maintenance and field history - *
• Conduct frequent in-house inspections - *
• Encourage natural predators and parasites -
• Rotate insecticides/fungicide chemical families - *
• Prevent plant blow-down by creating wind breaks - *
• Deficient or excess fertilizer can make plants weak and create ideal conditions for certain pests and pathogens. - *

nursery layout

• Keep nursery and loading areas clean, litter and weed free, and properly dispose of waste. - *
• For plants, avoid heat and moisture stress - *
• Use clean media and sterilize used pots, trays, and flats. - *
• Avoid monocultures by mixing susceptible and hardy plants -
• Keep records of incoming and outgoing stock as well as nursery maintenance and field history - *
• Conduct frequent in-house inspections - *
• Encourage natural predators and parasites -
• Rotate insecticides/fungicide chemical families - *
• Prevent plant blow-down by creating wind breaks - *
• Deficient or excess fertilizer can make plants weak and create ideal conditions for certain pests and pathogens. - *

and cultural practices

• Keep nursery and loading areas clean, litter and weed free, and properly dispose of waste. - *
• For plants, avoid heat and moisture stress - *
• Use clean media and sterilize used pots, trays, and flats. - *
• Avoid monocultures by mixing susceptible and hardy plants -
• Keep records of incoming and outgoing stock as well as nursery maintenance and field history - *
• Conduct frequent in-house inspections - *
• Encourage natural predators and parasites -
• Rotate insecticides/fungicide chemical families - *
• Prevent plant blow-down by creating wind breaks - *
• Deficient or excess fertilizer can make plants weak and create ideal conditions for certain pests and pathogens. - *

Sanitation, nursery layout, and cultural practices

• Keep nursery and loading areas clean, litter and weed free, and properly dispose of waste. - *
• For plants, avoid heat and moisture stress - *
• Use clean media and sterilize used pots, trays, and flats. - *
• Avoid monocultures by mixing susceptible and hardy plants -
• Keep records of incoming and outgoing stock as well as nursery maintenance and field history - *
• Conduct frequent in-house inspections - *
• Encourage natural predators and parasites -
• Rotate insecticides/fungicide chemical families - *
• Prevent plant blow-down by creating wind breaks - *
• Deficient or excess fertilizer can make plants weak and create ideal conditions for certain pests and pathogens. - *

Exclusion

• Clean mechanical equipment to prevent the spread of soil-borne pests and pathogens -
• Make sure all stock you receive is clean in order to exclude pests and pathogens. Create an isolation area to store new stock. - *
• Plants collected from the wild could carry pests and pathogens. Self-propagation of new plants can prevent introductions. - *
• Visually inspect all incoming stock; Inspect before shipping and upon receiving shipments. - *
• Monitor high risk plants on borders and be aware of nearby nursery pest status - *

Trapping and Monitoring

• Beat/tap sampling -
• Sweep net monitoring -
• Trapping and detection using pyramid traps and emergence traps -

Minimizing Spread

• Remove potential hosts from the landscape -

Treatments

• Spot treatment with pesticides - *
• Use commercial biological control agents -

* indicates a common or universal best management practice that can be applied to all selected pests.