Management Guides & Fact Sheets

UF/IFAS Extension Bookstore publications

  • Helpful, Harmful, Harmless: Insects and other organisms in Florida landscapes (available for purchase HERE)
    This convenient, handheld field guide is an excellent resource for learning about over 75 of the most commonly encountered insects, mites, and other invertebrates in southeastern U.S. landscapes. Visit the UF/IFAS Extension Bookstore to purchase your’s!
  • Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management in Residential Landscapes
    This quad-fold brochure provides an introduction to integrated pest and pollinator management (IPPM), several key practices you can implement in a home landscape, and 23 wildlife-friendly ornamental plant recommendations for North and South Florida.
    • North Florida (available for purchase HERE)
    • South Florida (available for purchase HERE)
  • Informational posters about beneficial insects on plants
    Most insects you find on or around plants are beneficial! These posters illustrate and describe the essential roles that predatory and plant-feeding insects play in our ecosystems. A great resource to display on walls for educators, gardeners, conservationists, and green industry professionals.
    • Helpful Herbivores (available for purchase HERE)
    • Natural Enemies, Natural Pest Control (available for purchase HERE)

Pest Control Guides

  • 2017 Southeastern U.S. Pest Control Guide for Nursery Crops & Landscape Plantings [PDF] (hard copy available for purchase HERE)

UF/IFAS Extension publications

  • Balancing pest management and conservation on ornamental plants [LINK]
  • Entendiendo el modo de accion de los insecticidas y el manejo de resistencia en la horticultura de Florida [LINK]
  • Encouraging residents to request wildlife-friendly landscape maintenance from their chosen professionals: A stages of change approach for Extension and other practitioners [LINK]
  • Wildlife-friendly landscaping: Connecting professionals and the public [LINK]
  • Understanding insecticide modes of action and resistance management in Florida horticulture [LINK]
  • Pesticide injection and drenching [LINK]
  • Key Plant, Key Pests: Sycamore (Platanus spp.) [LINK]
  • Creating wildflower habitats on golf courses [LINK]
  • Galling damage to woody ornamentals [LINK]
  • Key Plant, Key Pests: Oaks (Quercus spp.) [LINK]
  • Yaupon holly culture and pest management [LINK]
  • Elongate hemlock scale risk to Florida conifers [LINK]
  • Managing plant pests with soap [LINK]
  • Natural products for managing landscape and garden pests [LINK]
  • Managing insecticide and miticide resistance in Florida landscapes [LINK]
  • Biology and management of the bermudagrass mite [LINK]
  • Stinging and venomous caterpillars of the Southeast [LINK]
  • Managing southern chinch bug in warm season turfgrasses [LINK]
  • Florida-Friendly Landscaping Guidelines for Community Associations [LINK]
  • Impervious surface thresholds and the Pace to Plant technique for planting urban red maple trees [LINK]
  • Managing whiteflies on landscape ornamentals [LINK]
  • Managing scale insects & mealybugs on turfgrass [LINK]
  • Landscape integrated pest management [LINK]
  • Turfgrass insect pest management [LINK]
  • Managing scale insects on ornamental plants [LINK]

Insect & IPM fact sheets

  • Tuliptree aphid, Illinoia liriodendri [webpage]
  • The oriental beetle, Anomala orientalis [webpage]
  • Snowbush spanworm, white-tipped black, Melanchroia chephise [webpage]
  • The American sand wasp, Bembix americana [webpage]
  • The hibiscus erineum mite, Aceria hibisci [webpage]
  • Two-lined spittlebug, Prosapia bicincta [webpage]
  • Argentine ant, Linepithema humile [webpage]
  • A bombardier beetle, Pheropsophus aequinoctialis [webpage]
  • Boxwood leafminer, Monarthropalpus flavus [webpage]
  • Taro planthopper, Tarophagus colocasiae [webpage]
  • Red and black mason wasp, Pachodynerus erynnis [webpage]
  • Little leaf notcher, Artipus floridanus [webpage]
  • Yaupon psyllid, Gyropsylla ilecis [webpage]
  • Salvinia weevil, Cyrtobagous salviniae [webpage]
  • Hibiscus bud weevil, Anthonomus testaceosquamousus [webpage] [PDF]
  • Crapemyrtle bark scale, Acanthococcus lagerstroemiae [webpage]
  • Tuliptree scale, Toumeyella liriodendri [webpage]
  • Fourlined plant bug, Poecilocapsus lineatus [webpage]
  • Armored scale insects [PDF]
  • Soft scale insects [PDF]
  • Mealybugs [PDF]
  • Tuttle mealybug, Brevennia rhea [PDF]
  • An IPM framework for sustainable urban tree planting and design [PDF]
  • The ‘Pace to Plant’ technique [PDF]