title: Past, Present, and Future of Integrated Control of Apple Pests: The New Zealand Experience.
abstract: This review describes the New Zealand apple industry's progression from 1960s integrated pest control research to today's comprehensive integrated pest management system. With the exception of integrated mite control implemented during the 1980s, pest control on apple crops was dominated by intensive organophosphate insecticide regimes to control tortricid leafrollers. Multiple pest resistances to these insecticides by the 1990s, and increasing consumer demand for lower pesticide residues on fruit, led to the implementation of integrated fruit production. This substantially eliminated organophosphate insecticide use by 2001, replacing it with pest monitoring systems, threshold-based selective insecticides, and biological control. More recently, new demands for ultralow-residue fruit have increased the adoption of mating disruption and use of biological insecticides. Widespread adoption of selective pest management has substantially reduced the status of previously important pests, including leafrollers, mealybugs, leafhoppers, and mites for improved phytosanitary performance, and contributed to major reductions in total insecticide use.
authors.affiliation: The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited, Havelock North 4157, New Zealand; email: jim.walker@plantandfood.co.nz.
authors.forename: James T S
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.affiliation: The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand; email: max.suckling@plantandfood.co.nz.|School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.
authors.forename: David Maxwell
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Suckling
authors.affiliation: The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited, Auckland 1142, New Zealand; email: codling@xtra.co.nz.
authors.forename: C Howard
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Wearing
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D007300:Insect Control / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D027845:Malus; D009520:New Zealand; D010572:Pest Control, Biological / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D013983:Tick Control / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods
keywords: IPM implementation; biological control; insecticide risk profile; integrated fruit production; pome fruit