Cultural Control: Insecticide controls may be more effective if overall tree stress symptoms are reduced. Trees should be fertilized in spring and fall. Watering regularly is very important especially during dry periods.
Cultural Control
Trapping the beetle with an attractant will bring more beetles into your area causing more damage. So, unless you can find someone to put up a trap in their yard, forget about it.
Cultural Control
A variety of cultural control practices can be used effectively to manage house flies and stable flies.
Cultural control-The use of gardening techniques to control pest populations.
Curing-Holding potato tubers or sweet potato roots under warm, humid conditions that favor wound healing.
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Cultural Control
Plants growing in soils that have become water-logged following overwatering or heavy rains in summer are predisposed to infection by Phytophthora parasitica.
Cultural controls include removing juniper galls before they produce spores and separating junipers from potential alternate hosts. A few hundred yards separation is generally sufficient for practical Garden purposes.
The best cultural control of clover mites is to try a little winter watering in those sites where the mites thrive - at the south and west sides of buildings. This can greatly retard populations increasing in spring.
Option 2: Cultural Control - Use Resistant Turfgrasses - The hairy chinch bug seems to prefer perennial ryegrasses and fine fescues, especially if these are in the sun and have greater than 0.5 inch of thatch.
Management: Both chemical and cultural control practices are employed to minimize white rot. The pruning and removal of all dead wood, including spurs, twigs, and branches, is essential because the fungus survives in these structures.
Invasives and Pest Plants. Poison ivy and invasive exotic plants like Japanese honeysuckle can be real problems. If you are using only cultural controls, be constantly vigilant and take action while invaders are small.
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Many gardeners don't want to go through such a hassle and are willing to give up a few fruit to the caterpillars in return for cutting back on insecticide sprays. Several cultural controls can assist them in this regard.
Avoid overhead watering, and water in the morning to give the foliage time to dry before nightfall. Use fungicides if cultural controls aren't sufficient.
(You can see them on the leaves with a torch!) To kill the grubs in containers, use biological control or apply a pesticide that contains Imidacloprid. (Cultural control; ensure you get rid of old compost in pots and baskets.) ...
 See also: Plant, Spring, Soil, Light, Water
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