Integrated Pest Management

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Integrated Pest Management

• By Alyssa Kearney
• Mrs. Prendergast
• Period 4

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What Why

• IPM is an agriculture pest control strategy where
  you use knowledge on the pests living place, what
  it does, and its history.
• IPM helps control and terminate pest problems in
  a smart way using what you have learned about the
  pests.

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The First Step

• Understand what the customer wants you to do with
  the pest.
• Consult the owner of the property and see what
  they want done with the pest. Do they want it
  dead? Do they care if you use chemicals? (etc.)

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The Second Step

• Examine the pest and the problem
• Make sure you know which species are currently
  there. Check buildings, make sure you have the
  right identification, know characteristics of the
  pest.

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The Third Step

• Use short term actions to better control the pest
• If theres a lot of the type of pest, try using
  insecticides first to get rid of some of the
  pests. Do small things that will let you do the
  big tactic more thoroughly.

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The Fourth Step

• Use long term actions to rid the pest
• Use the tactics to help resolve the pest issue.
  Prevent the pests from doing harm or coming back.

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The Fifth Step

• Write records
• Remember to keep track of the strategy you used
  to get rid of the pest. It might be helpful in
  the future! Remember a conclusion.

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The Last Step

• Consult the landowner again
• Tell the owner the process you used to rid the
  pest. Make sure the customer stays informed about
  what they can do to help control the pest in the
  future (if it comes back).

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The Six Tactics

• Chemical Control- There are special insecticide
  sprays you can use to manage pests. You can spray
  or lubricate where the pest is.
• Biological Control- Predation (bringing in
  predators to eat the prey) and parasitism (you
  bring in another organism that gets benefits from
  damaging the pest)
• Physical Control- Using barriers, traps, weeding,
  and getting rid of the pest using hands

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The Six Tactics

• Cultural Control- Using sanitation, crop
  rotations, and covering the crops to get rid of
  the pest.
• Regulatory Control- Take away things that make
  the pest regulatory (i.e. health, comfort, and
  recreation)
• Exclusion- Place barriers and watch the pests
  closely.

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Bagworm

• Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis
• The bagworm is native to Pennsylvania.

Bagworms on Colorado Blue Spruce
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Recognizable Traits

• The pests reside in cone shaped figures. The
  actual pest is shiny black with amber coloring on
  their underside. Male bagworms turn into moths
  that can fly around, while the women stay in the
  grub form.

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Life History of the Bagworm

• Bagworms start out as eggs. They grow into larvae
  which look like moth larvae. They also go through
  pupae. Then, as adults, women stay in a grub like
  form while men grow into moths.

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Winter Spring Summer Fall
Eggs stay in the bags the females made previously. Egg hatches and the larvae come out and search for food. Each one makes a bag around itself using silk and plant material. Feeding continues until August when they attach themselves to sticks and twigs. The pests stay there for about a month. Males leave their bags to go mate. They travel to the woman's bag where the woman can lay 500 to 1,000 eggs.
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Impact

• Bagworms can eat both hardwood and softwood
  trees. They usually attack fir, hemlock, juniper,
  pine, and spruce.
• Bagworms take away plant leaves, this causes leaf
  damage. Attacks usually go unnoticed because
  their bags look like pinecones.

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Getting Rid of Bagworms

• You can just pick up the bag and burn it.
• Attract birds. Use birdfeeders or make your tree
  desirable.
• Use insecticides to spray on the pest to make
  sure they die away.