Florida Tropical Fruit PMSP

Priorities

Category Rank Pest Type Pest Crop Stage Priority
Extension/Outreach 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Papaya: Advise growers of the effect on scales/mites when “hard” insecticides are used.
Extension/Outreach 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Avocado: Advise growers of the effect/threshold for thrips damage to blooms and subsequent fruit set.
Extension/Outreach 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Lychee: Advise growers of the effect of scales on bark health and how to sample/examine.
Extension/Outreach 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Longan: Advise growers on how to sample for scales and mites in the grove.
Extension/Outreach 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Carambola: Advise growers regarding the proper use of methidathion for scale control.
Extension/Outreach 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Guava: Present growers with a fully-integrated system for bagged white guava.
Extension/Outreach 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Banana: Educate growers on nematode and propagation sanitary practices.
Extension/Outreach 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Passionfruit: Educate growers on scouting for mites, scales, and thrips.
Extension/Outreach 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sugar Apple: Educate growers on the encouraging IPM program with Beauveria bassiana.
Extension/Outreach 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sapodilla: Educate growers on optimizing scale control.
Extension/Outreach 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mango: Advise growers of the effect/threshold for thrips damage to blooms and subsequent fruit set.
Extension/Outreach 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mamey Sapote: Educate growers on possible flower damage and reduced fruit set by mites.
Extension/Outreach 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mamey Sapote: Cooperate with nursery growers to reduce scale on nursery stock.
Extension/Outreach 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mango: Advise growers of the availability of materials for anthracnose and powdery mildew as well the rotational pattern with new material (azoxystrobin).
Extension/Outreach 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sapodilla: Educate growers on possible flower damage and reduced fruit set by mirids.
Extension/Outreach 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sugar Apple: Encourage habitat management for potential pollinators
Extension/Outreach 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Banana: Encourage growers to propagate or utilize tissue culture plantlets.
Extension/Outreach 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Guava: Cooperate with growers and USDA on a CFF eradication plan.
Extension/Outreach 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Carambola: Advise growers on non-bearing options for ant control.
Extension/Outreach 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Longan: Advise growers on how to sample for ants in the packinghouse.
Extension/Outreach 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Lychee: Advise growers on the method for scouting for lychee webworm.
Extension/Outreach 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Avocado: Present growers with a pamphlet that addresses their interest in the quarantine process.
Extension/Outreach 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Papaya: Advise papaya growers of the pattern for papaya fruit fly sampling (border intensive).
Extension/Outreach 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Papaya: Educate growers with respect to complete coverage of the papaya canopy to control mealybug.
Extension/Outreach 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Avocado: Educate growers with respect to rotation of fungicides to reduce the rate of resistance to strobilurins.
Extension/Outreach 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Lychee: Educate growers on the necessity of prophylactic timing with respect to anthracnose management.
Extension/Outreach 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Longan: Educate nursery growers on the proper use of mefenoxam.
Extension/Outreach 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Guava: Cooperate with growers on the nematode and glyphosate phytotoxicity questions.
Extension/Outreach 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sapodilla: Cooperate with sapodilla growers to confirm/deny cultivar response to leaf spot damage.
Extension/Outreach 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mango: Educate growers with respect to rotation of fungicides to reduce the rate of resistance to strobilurins.
Extension/Outreach 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Lychee: Educate growers with respect to rotation of fungicides to reduce the rate of resistance to strobilurins.
Extension/Outreach 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sapodilla: Cooperate with growers and USDA on a CFF eradication plan.
Extension/Outreach 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Papaya: Educate growers on the management of corynespora spot and phytophthora blight control.
Extension/Outreach 5 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Papaya: Educate growers with respect to rotation of fungicides to reduce the rate of resistance to strobilurins.
Regulatory 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mango: Register a post-harvest fungicide other than TBZ for post-harvest fungus control.
Regulatory 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Lychee: Continue the registration process for diflubenzuron, abamectin/milbemectin (at least one), methoxyfenozide, tebuconazole, cyprodinil + fludioxonil, and carfentrazone-ethyl that will also suffice for longan.
Regulatory 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Carambola: Continue the registration process for bifenthrin/deltamethrin (at least one), abamectin, mefenoxam, and carfentrazone-ethyl.
Regulatory 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Avocado: Register a fungicide other than a strobilurin (e.g., thiophanate-methyl) for rotation to reduce rate of resistance development.
Regulatory 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Guava: Continue the registration process for abamectin, buprofezin, and carfentrazone-ethyl.
Regulatory 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Banana: Continue the registration process for imidacl oprid, bifenthrin, myclobutanil, and acibenzolar.
Regulatory 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Passionfruit: Continue the registration process for abamectin, pyriproxyfen, and carfentrazone-ethyl.
Regulatory 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sugar Apple: Register a tool for TSSM management.
Regulatory 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sapodilla: Register copper hydroxide for sapodilla.
Regulatory 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Papaya: Register a post-harvest fungicide other than TBZ for post-harvest fungus control.
Regulatory 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Longan: Continue the lychee registration process for diflubenzuron, abamectin/milbemectin (at least one), methoxyfenozide, tebuconazole, cyprodinil + fludioxonil, and carfentrazone-ethyl that will also suffice for longan.
Regulatory 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mamey Sapote: Continue the registration process for pyridab en and carfentrazone-ethyl on mamey sapote.
Regulatory 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Lychee: Add mefenoxam to the regulatory que.
Regulatory 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sugar Apple: Continue registration process for carfentrazone-ethyl.
Regulatory 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Papaya: Continue the registration process for pyridaben, abamectin, myclobutanil and carfentrazone- ethyl.
Regulatory 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sapodilla: Continue registration process for carfentrazone-ethyl.
Regulatory 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Guava: Register a rotational partner for azoxystrobin which may also control algal spot.
Regulatory 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Avocado: Register a post-harvest fungicide for stem-end complex.
Regulatory 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Carambola: Register an ant control compound for bearing season management.
Regulatory 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mango: Continue registration process for pyridaben, tebuconazole and carfentrazone-ethyl.
Regulatory 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Papaya: Release of newly developed genetically-modified cultivars (when available).
Regulatory 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Carambola: Register a rotational partner for azoxystrobin.
Regulatory 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Avocado: Register injection use of fosetyl-Al for PRR control.
Regulatory 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Avocado: Continue registration process for abamectin/milbemectin (at least one), buprofezin, BAS 516, and carfentrazone-ethyl.
Regulatory 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Papaya: Registration of SAR compound if effective in virus control.
Research 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Avocado: Establish the economic threshold for thrips damage on avocado blooms.
Research 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mango: Determine the effect of thrips feeding on bloom viability and establish the economic threshold for thrips damage on mango blooms.
Research 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Papaya: Determine the sampling/monitoring economic threshold for spider mite damage and population dynamics associated with current pest control programs.
Research 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Lychee: Investigate the corky bark complex (i.e., causal organism(s), management).
Research 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Longan: Optimize scale and mealybug control and resistance management with the newly registered materials.
Research 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Carambola: Optimize scale control and resistance management with the present and newly registered materials.
Research 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Guava: Examine efficacy of newly registered materials on mealybug and stinkbug control.
Research 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Banana: Investigate damage by cucumber beetles.
Research 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sugar Apple: Conduct efficacy studies for ASB with insecticides and attractant.
Research 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mamey Sapote: Examine the biology of and conduct efficacy studies for the mining scale.
Research 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Passionfruit: Investigate flower damage by thrips and fruit damage by mites and scales.
Research 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sapodilla: Identify and conduct efficacy studies for the fruit flower moth complex.
Research 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sapodilla: Research the etiology and epidemiology of the blister/rust disease.
Research 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Passionfruit: Determine efficacy of new or pending insecticides on mites, scales, and thrips.
Research 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mamey Sapote: Identify, study the biology, and conduct efficacy studies for damaging leafhoppers.
Research 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sugar Apple: Investigate synthetic pollination lures.
Research 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Carambola: Examine grove fire ant management with various bearing and non-bearing season materials.
Research 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Banana: Identify thrips and mealybug species that damage banana fruit.
Research 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Guava: Examine biology of false spider mite on guava.
Research 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Longan: Examine grove fire ant management with various bearing and non-bearing season materials.
Research 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Lychee: Examine mite population dynamics and determine thresholds.
Research 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Papaya: Examine scale population dynamics in relation to existing and newly registered insecticides.
Research 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mango: Examine extent of white mango scale damage on mango.
Research 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Avocado: Examine avocado looper resistance with existing compounds and mating disruption with pheromones (if available).
Research 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Avocado: Study the biology/phenology of bud mite on avocado and elucidate sampling scheme for citrus red mite.
Research 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mango: Determine efficacy/rotational pattern for existing/new fungicides.
Research 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Lychee: Determine efficacy/rotational pattern for imidacloprid and spinosad use in flower predator management.
Research 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Carambola: Examine flower development and identify pests that cause damage.
Research 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Longan: Examine mite management with those materials due to be registered on lychee.
Research 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Guava: Develop an integrated CFF management program.
Research 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Banana: Determine efficacy of new or pending insecticides on thrips and mealybugs.
Research 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sugar Apple: Conduct efficacy studies for scale, mealybug, and leafhopper management.
Research 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mamey Sapote: Optimize scale management with new and current tools.
Research 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Passionfruit: Determine efficacy of newly registered fungicides on passionfruit diseases.
Research 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Papaya: Determine efficacy/rotational pattern for existing fungicides as well as those that are newly registered.
Research 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sapodilla: Conduct efficacy studies for the blister/rust and leaf-spotting diseases.
Research 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sapodilla: Optimize scale management with new and current tools.
Research 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mamey Sapote: Conduct efficacy studies for Cuban May beetle.
Research 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sugar Apple: Optimize mite management with current tools.
Research 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Banana: Determine efficacy of new or pending fungicides on banana diseases.
Research 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Guava: Determine an acceptable candidate for algal spot management.
Research 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Longan: Determine citrus red mite biology on longan and determine the economic threshold.
Research 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Carambola: Optimize fruit-damaging insect control.
Research 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Lychee: Optimize the IGR methoxyfenozide (timing, frequency) and scout for biocontrol agents for lychee webworm.
Research 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Papaya: Examine papaya sensitivity to formulating agents that may be causing spray burn.
Research 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mango: Examine rainfastness of available fungicides.
Research 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Avocado: Breed phytophthora-resistant rootstock.
Research 5 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Avocado: Investigate efficacy of carfentrazone-ethyl on problematic weed species.
Research 5 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mango: Investigate efficacy of newly registered fungicides on key and emerging pests.
Research 5 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Papaya: Investigate potential of SAR compound (acibenzolar) on virus control.
Research 5 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Carambola: Determine optimal fungicide rotation to control sooty blotch and prevent resistance.
Research 5 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Longan: Identify a post-harvest fungicide control agent.
Research 5 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Guava: Determine optimal fungicide rotation to control anthracnose and prevent resistance.
Research 5 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sugar Apple: Determine the casual organisms of fruit rots and spots.
Research 5 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Sapodilla: Develop an integrated CFF management program.
Research 6 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Papaya: Determine the fungicides (imazalil, OPP) other than TBZ that will control post-harvest diseases.
Research 6 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Longan: Determine a method/identify a chemical to discourage bird piercing of fruit.
Research 6 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Guava: Determine if nematode damage is cultivar-specific and construct possible mitigation plans.
Research 6 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Carambola: Determine efficacy of biological fungicides against root rot.
Research 6 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Mango: Determine the fungicides (imazalil, OPP) other than TBZ that will control post-harvest diseases.
Research 6 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Avocado: Investigate efficacy of newly registered insecticides on emerging pest problems.