History of Pest Management

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History of Pest Management

• Pre-Insecticide
• Insecticide
• Emergence of Pest Management

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Characteristics of Pest management

• Most descriptions mention 3 elements. Example
  natural enemies, resistant varieties,
  insecticides.
• Programs will selective for the pest,
  comprehensive for the production system,
  compatible with ecological principles, tolerant
  of potentially harmful species but within
  economically acceptable limits.

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Pest management Strategies

• Is the overall plan to eliminate or alleviate a
  real or perceived pest problem.
• Strategy developed depends on life system of the
  pest and crop involved.

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The different types of strategies

• Do nothing
• Reduce pest populations
• Reduce crop susceptibility to pest injury
• Combine reduced population numbers with reduced
  crop susceptibility.

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Pest Management Program
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• Monitoring
• Pheromone
• Biological
• Crop Rotation
• GMO
• Stripe Harvesting
• Host Plants