Greenhouse Pest Exclusion

Excluding insect pests from entering into the greenhouse crop production area is a key strategy in a successful integrated pest management (IPM) program. Several practices have been implemented to reduce insect entrance into the demonstration greenhouses at the Center in Live Oak.

• Greenhouse Insect Intro

  • Presenter

    Bob Hochmuth is a multi-county Extension agent at the NFREC - Suwannee Valley working in the areas of small farms, commercial vegetables, and protected culture. His specialties include alternative crops, hydroponics, plastic mulch, and drip irrigation technology. Bob was raised on a commercial vegetable farm and has been an Extension agent since 1982.

    Publications

    • Exclusion Methods for Managing Greenhouse Vegetable Pests

• Sanitation

  • Presenter

    Bob Hochmuth is a multi-county Extension agent at the NFREC - Suwannee Valley working in the areas of small farms, commercial vegetables, and protected culture. His specialties include alternative crops, hydroponics, plastic mulch, and drip irrigation technology. Bob was raised on a commercial vegetable farm and has been an Extension agent since 1982.

    Publications

    • Exclusion Methods for Managing Greenhouse Vegetable Pests

• Air Lock Entrance

  • Presenter

    Bob Hochmuth is a multi-county Extension agent at the NFREC - Suwannee Valley working in the areas of small farms, commercial vegetables, and protected culture. His specialties include alternative crops, hydroponics, plastic mulch, and drip irrigation technology. Bob was raised on a commercial vegetable farm and has been an Extension agent since 1982.

    Publications

    • Exclusion Methods for Managing Greenhouse Vegetable Pests

• Resistant Cultivars

  • Presenter

    Bob Hochmuth is a multi-county Extension agent at the NFREC - Suwannee Valley working in the areas of small farms, commercial vegetables, and protected culture. His specialties include alternative crops, hydroponics, plastic mulch, and drip irrigation technology. Bob was raised on a commercial vegetable farm and has been an Extension agent since 1982.

    Publications

    • Exclusion Methods for Managing Greenhouse Vegetable Pests

• Insect Screening

  • Presenter

    Bob Hochmuth is a multi-county Extension agent at the NFREC - Suwannee Valley working in the areas of small farms, commercial vegetables, and protected culture. His specialties include alternative crops, hydroponics, plastic mulch, and drip irrigation technology. Bob was raised on a commercial vegetable farm and has been an Extension agent since 1982.

    Publications

    • Exclusion Methods for Managing Greenhouse Vegetable Pests

• Reflective Metalized Mulch

  • Presenters

    Bob Hochmuth is a multi-county Extension agent at the NFREC - Suwannee Valley working in the areas of small farms, commercial vegetables, and protected culture. His specialties include alternative crops, hydroponics, plastic mulch, and drip irrigation technology. Bob was raised on a commercial vegetable farm and has been an Extension agent since 1982.

    Wanda Laughlin has been a Senior Agricultural Assistant for the NFREC-Suwannee Valley Research Center since 2002. Her responsibilities include seed and transplant production, hydroponic greenhouse research projects, data collection for field research, and conducting educational workshops and tours at the center. Wanda moved to Live Oak in 1998 from central Florida, where she worked as a grower in commercial transplant production for ornamental and bedding plants, for Knox Nursery Inc., Natural Beauty of Florida and Fernleaf of Florida.

    Publications

    • Exclusion Methods for Managing Greenhouse Vegetable Pests

• Scouting

  • Presenters

    Bob Hochmuth is a multi-county Extension agent at the NFREC - Suwannee Valley working in the areas of small farms, commercial vegetables, and protected culture. His specialties include alternative crops, hydroponics, plastic mulch, and drip irrigation technology. Bob was raised on a commercial vegetable farm and has been an Extension agent since 1982.

    Kathy Smith is a professional pest management scout owning her own business, Agricultural Pest Management, Inc. Kathy has been in the scouting business for several years in Florida and has worked with both field and greenhouse crops as well as conventional and organic production systems. Her specialty is in the area of vegetable crops.

    Publications

    • Exclusion Methods for Managing Greenhouse Vegetable Pests