Contents
Contributors and Acknowledgements
CHAPTER ONE Integrated
Pest Management In the Interiorscape Environment
- Monitoring and Detection
- Diagnosis and Identification
- Economic and Aesthetic Significance
- Selection of Management Methods
- IPM Evaluation
CHAPTER TWO Plant
Selection and Management
- Plant Selection
- Light Requirements
- Temperature Requirements
- Purchase High Quality Plant
Material
- Acclimating Plants Prior to
Planting
- Maintenance in the Interiorscape
- Watering
- Fertilizing
- Cleaning
- Pruning
CHAPTER THREE Diseases
of Indoor Plants
- Abiotic Disorders
- Biotic Disorders
- Infectious Diseases on Indoor
Plants
- Fungi
- Bacteria
- Viruses
- Root Diseases
- Nematodes
CHAPTER FOUR Insect Management in the Interiorscape Environment
- Components of Integrated Pest
Management
- Monitoring
- Biological Control
- Pesticides
- Record Keeping
- Aphids
- Chrysanthemum Aphid
- Green Peach Aphid
- Melon or Cotton Aphid
- Flies
- Fungus Gnats
- Shore Flies
- Mealybugs
- Introduction
- Citrus Mealybug
- Longtail Mealybug
- Mexican Mealybug
- Root Mealybug
- Mites
- Broad Mites
- Cyclamen Mites
- Twospotted Mites
- Scale Insects
- Introduction
- Boisduval Scale
- Brown Soft Scale
- Fern Scale
- Hemispherical Scale
- Tessellated Scale
CHAPTER FIVE
Biological Control
- Biological Control
Implementation
- Selecting Natural Enemies
- Purchasing Natural Enemies
- Sources of Biological Control
Agents
- Biological Control in the Great
Indoors: At the Mall Of America
APPENDIX
- Interiorscape Pest Management References