Best Management Practices

Sweep net monitoring can be used for pests found in shrubs and herbaceous plants including many weeds and grasses found on the border of nurseries and under trees in orchards.  Sweep nets can also be useful in crops which can withstand repeated sweeping.  It is best to make a standard form for sweeping so as to create a less biased result.

            GWSS:  Most effective in cool weather when the leaf hoppers are less active (59).

            ACP:  (22) (7).

            BMSB:  This is a useful monitoring device in soybean fields and border plants.

            BB: The only sampling method for bagrada bugs consists of laborious sweep net sampling (102).