Integrated Pest Management

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Integrated Pest Management
Green Pest Management
Healthy Environment Healthy Students
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• We want A SAFE ENVIRONMENT!
• Safe from
• Pest organisms
• Arthropod vectored diseases
• Inappropriate chemical pesticide use

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Bugs
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No Bad Bugs ?

• Less than 5 of all insect species are ever
  considered pests

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Do Bugs Pester you?
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What is IPM?

• IPM focuses on reducing pest conducive conditions
  and ecologically sound remedial action
• IPM is people oriented and the most effective
  managementstrategy.

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IPM Tactics
Pesticides
Exclusion
Sanitation and habitat modification
Education and communication
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Prevention

• Educate community
• Inform people about IPM
• Good sanitation
• Dont feed pests
• Exclusion and pest-proofing
• Dont let pests in
• Modify the habitat
• Dont give them a place to live

Pests want the same things we wantFood Water
Shelter
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Initial Inspection of Skool High
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Relationships
Communication
The whole community needs to be involved
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Pest Proofing Problems
If you were a bug this would be an open door
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Sanitation
Corner crud can feed cockroaches and ants for
weeks
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Evidence of Clutter Bugs
Pests have lots of places to hide
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Food Storage
Cockroaches live in and feed on cardboard boxes
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Waste Management
Good waste management practices are essential
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Monitoring and Identification
Find where and what organisms are sharing your
space.
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Pest Sighting Logs
The community to reports sightings.
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Education
Share information of the biology and ecology of
living organisms in our environment.
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Maintenance
Preventative maintenance orders take priority.
If we can loose Jerry in the bushes, when else is
in there?
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Self Assess
Have independent assessments done and get
recognition for being a green school or child
care facility.
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Children are the most vulnerable members of
society, they are the future. We are the
custodians of their world