Best Management Practices

Destroy infested plant material if there are only a few infested or diseased plants, or if there are many high risk plants in the nursery.

            LBAM:  Keep separate cull piles for infected plants (61). 

EGVM:  Infested clusters of grapes should be harvested and destroyed. EGVM larvae can live on, among, and inside grapes.  Keep separate cull piles for infected plants (25).

            GWSS:  Destroyed plants must be bagged and sent to a landfill.  Infected plants work as inoculum of Pierce’s Disease.  The removal of infected grape vines and almond trees reduces the risk of infecting other plants (41)(84).

            ACP:  Removing symptomatic trees also removes inoculum of citrus greening (7).

PR: An infected plant can act as inoculum for the disease, which puts other plants at risk (72).  Destroy plants immediately if P. ramorum infection has been confirmed

Cull piles for infected plant material should be kept separate from other plant debris.  Direct runoff from cull piles away from susceptible plants and waterways to reduce the risk of spreading infection (72).

            RPW:  Remove according to quarantine regulations.  Removing infested palms directly after detection prevents adult weevils from emerging.  This is the best means of managing infestations available.  However it is difficult to effectively destroy infestations in removed stock and remove debris from the soil to prevent reinfestation (14).