These will be one day workshops with in-depth basic information about insects, and diseases and how to control them using IPM methods. Growers using pheromone must also be knowledgeable about monitoring secondary pests. Growers will receive a copy of the Pest Management Guidelines for peaches. Project managers will help coordinate these meetings. Growers need to learn to identify pests and beneficial insects in their field.
Meeting held in the winter are unable to utilize live specimens.
Meetings will be held in the growing season at pheromone demonstration sites in the Sacramento and the San Joaquin Valley to teach growers to identify insects in the field and how to conduct monitoring in their orchards. The project manager will coordinate these meetings and will help develop and gather live insect displays for these meetings. This project would start this fall with planning workshops. Cooperators for next springs demonstrations need to be identified in November through January. The field demonstrations will start in late February when the first OFM moth needs to be identified by field monitoring.