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Posted 20 October 2006. Applied Turfgrass Science. New Comprehensive Guide for Landscape Professionals University of California, Davis. www.aes.ucdavis.edu Davis, California (October 04, 2006)--Landscape Maintenance Pest Control is a complete guide to the management of weed, insect, pathogen, and vertebrate pests in turf, landscape, and interior situations such as parks and golf courses to indoor malls.
Designed for professionals working in the public or private sector, the guide released by the University of California Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program focuses especially on pesticide handling and application procedures of importance. More than 200 photos, line drawings, graphs, and sidebars illustrate key concepts and procedures. The book is recommended study material for Landscape Maintenance Pest Control and Maintenance Gardener categories of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s Qualified Pesticide Applicator License and Qualified Pesticide Applicator Certificate exams. Review questions similar to those on the exams are included at the end of each chapter. Landscape Maintenance Pest Control is the seventh volume in the UC IPM Pesticide Application Compendium. Others are: •Volume 1, The Safe and Effective Use of Pesticides, second edition, published in February 2000 •Volume 2, Residential, Industrial, and Institutional Pest Control, published in 1991 •Volume 3, Wood Preservation, published in 1992 •Volume 4, Forest and Right-of-Way Pest Control, published in 1996 •Volume 5, Aquatic Pest Control, published in January 2001 •Volume 6, Demonstration and Research Uses of Pesticides, published in August 2003 To order, contact ANR Publications, 1-800-994-8849, or www.anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu. Ask for publication 3493. Contact: Stephanie Klunk, |
