Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Prevention, observation, and intervention

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Integrated Pest Management (IPM)Prevention,
observation, and intervention

• By
• Morgan Liss

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What is IPM?

• IPM is an environmentally sensitive and effective
  way of pest management
• Uses information and research found on life
  cycles of pest and how they interact with
  environment
• Cheapest and least hazardeous

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Basic IPM Components

• Acceptable Pest levels
• Also know as action threshold
• Basically seeing a single pest, doesnt mean
  control measures must be take

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Basic IPM components

• Monitor and identify pest
• One must look around and see if thee is any pest,
  not just once a month, but multiple times
• Must be able to identify pest, some insects or
  weeds found
• could actually be
• helpful

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Basic IPM components

• Cultural Control
• Goal of this is to make the land less favorable
  for pest
• These could include
• Crop rotation
• Selecting where to plant at
• Trap crops
• Planting of certain less favorable plants
• Adjusting time of harvest

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Basic IPM components

• Physical and Mechanical control
• Physical barriers
• Row covers or trenches prevent insects from
  reaching plants
• Hand picking of pest
• Sticky boards/tape to catch flying insects
• Numerous other trapping techniques

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Basic IPM components

• Chemical control
• Last step, if all others didnt work than resort
  to this
• Try to use ecofriendly chemicals
• Organic/biotanical pesticides preferred

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What Are Pests?

• An organism, usually an insect, in which is
  presences is unwanted, and most likely harmful
• Can also be used to refer to harmful weeds,
  fungi, diseases, and viruses
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Harmful Pest in US

• Armyworms
• Spider Mites
• Flea Beatle
• Harvest Mites
• Cabbage Butterfly

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What are Pesticides?

• Substance or mixture used to eradicate pests
• Can occur naturally or be synthetic
• Can be harmful

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Why Are Pesticides Harmful?

• We eat the food in which these harmful chemicals
  put on, endangering us
• Increase chance of cancers
• Genetic damage
• Harm helpful insects
• Can harm animals around these harmful pesticides

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DDT

• Originally used to control malaria and typhus
• Highly toxic to aquatic life
• Well known for reducing reproduction in birds
• Bald eagles
• Brown Pelican
• Peregrine Falcon

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Immunity to pesticides

• Pest are getting more genetically fit to not let
  these effect them
• Can become immune to it after a while

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How does IPM reduce use of pesticides?

• When using IPM chemical control, is the last
  resort
• The main goal is to see if pest are actually
  harmful
• If not than nothing goes on

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Works Cited

• "Crop Pests." Insectclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 21
  Feb. 2010.      lthttp//www.pedagonet.com/Insectc
  lopedia/pest2.htmlgt. 
• "DDT (Dichlorodiphenyl-Trichloroacetic Acid) -
  Ecological Damage." Jrank. N.p.,      n.d. Web.
  21 Feb. 2010. lthttp//science.jrank.org/pages/1963
  /      DDT-Dichlorodiphenyl-Trichloroacetic-Acid-
  Ecological-damage.htmlgt. 
• "Pesticides." Spirtus Temporis. N.p., n.d. Web.
  21 Feb. 2010.      lthttp//www.spiritus-temporis.
  com/pesticide/dangers-of-pesticides.htmlgt. 
• US Environmental Protection Agency. "Integrated
  Pest Management Principals."      U.S.
  Enviromental Protection Agency. N.p., 10 Sept.
  2009. Web. 17 Feb.      2010. lthttp//www.epa.gov
  /opp00001/factsheets/ipm.htmgt.