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Additional Resources
Arthropod Management Tests. Entomological Society of America
10001 Derekwood Lane, Suite 100, Lanham, MD 20706-4876
tel. (301) 731-4535, e-mail esa@entsoc.org
http://www.entsoc.org/pubs/overview/index.htm

ATTRA- Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural America, National Center for Appropriate Technology. Call ATTRA at 1-800-346-9140 for free information packets, or visit www.attra.ncat.org, a website containing downloadable factsheets and guides for organic production and pest management. “Farmscaping to Enhance Biological Control,” information packet available at http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/farmscape.html,

Biological and Cultural Tests for the Control of Plant Diseases. American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, MN http://www.apsnet.org/online/BCTests/

Caldwell, B. 2004. Vegetable Crop Health: Helping Nature Control Pests and Diseases Organically. NOFA Interstate Council, Barre, MA.

Davidson, Ralph H., and William F. Lyon. 1987. Insect Pests of Farm, Garden, and Orchard Wiley

Diagnostic/Compendia from The American Phytopathological Society. Available from APS Press at http://www.shopapspress.org

Fungicide and Nematicide Tests. American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, MN. http://www.apsnet.org/online/FNTests/

Grubinger, Vernon. 1999. Sustainable Vegetable Production from Start-Up to Market. NRAES - 104. NRAES, Cooperative Extension, Ithaca, NY 14852-4557. http://www.nraes.org

Howard, Ronald J., J. Allan Garland and W. Lloyd Seaman (editors). 1994. Diseases and Pests of Vegetable Crops in Canada, a joint publication by the Canadian Phytopathological Society and the Entomological Society of Canada.

The Integrated Crop and Pest Management Guidelines, Cornell Cooperative Extension. A comprehensive guide to pest management and includes information on pests and methods to control them. http://www.nysipm.cornell.edu/

Li, Y., W. Wilsey, C.R. Weeden and A.M. Shelton. Pests in the Northeast
A website that contains pictures and descriptions of insect pests and their damage. Entomology Department at the NY State Agricultural Experiment Station of Cornell University and the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program. http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/factsheets.

New England Vegetable Management Guide published by the Cooperative Extension of the Universities of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont (http://www.umext.maine.edu), (http://www.umassvegetable.org), (http://www.ceinfo.unh.edu), (http://www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry)

Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI)
http://www.omri.org A website that contains a brand name list of products reviewed and listed for organic production.

Seaman, A. 2004. Organic Vegetable Production. NRAES - 165. NRAES, Cooperative Extension, Ithaca, NY 14852-4557. http://www.nraes.org

Stoner, K. ed. 1999 Alternatives to Insecticides for Managing Vegetable Insects. NRAES - 165 or NRAES - 152. NRAES, Cooperative Extension, Ithaca, NY 14852-4557. http://www.nraes.org

USDA National Organic Program
http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop This website includes the regulations and policy statements regarding the National Organic Program.

Weeden, C.R. A.M. Shelton, Y. Li, M. P. Hoffman. Biological Control: a Guide to Natural Enemies in North America. Cornell University. A website that provides photographs and descriptions of biological control agents and contains a tutorial on the concept and practice of biological control. See http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/