Integrated Pest Management

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Integrated Pest Management

• By Matthew Burger and Kelly Brown

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What is IPM?

• Integrated Pest Management or IPM is an
  ecologically based pest control strategy.
• It relies on natural mortality factors of pests
  such as natural enemies, weather, cultural
  control methods and carefully applied doses of
  pesticides.

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IPM

• Integrated Pest Management system is based around
  six basic components
• Acceptable Pest Levels
• Preventive cultural practices
• Monitoring
• Mechanical Controls
• Biological Controls
• Chemical Controls

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Acceptable Pest Levels

• It emphasis control, and not eradication.
• -The wiping out of a whole pest population is
  usually impossible, and is very expensive to do,
  it may harm the environment, and usually
  unachievable.

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Preventive Culture Practices

• Preventive culture practices is keeping the crops
  healthy with plant quarantine and crop
  sanitation which is the removal of diseased
  plants to prevent spread of infection.

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Monitoring

• Regular observation is the foundation of IPM.
• Also used is visual inspection, insect and spore
  traps, along with other methods are used to
  monitor pest level.

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Mechanical Controls

• Should a pest reach an unacceptable level,
  mechanical control is the first option to
  consider.

• They include handpicking, erecting insect
  barriers, using traps, vacuuming and tillage to
  disrupt breeding.

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Biological Control

• Natural biological processes can provide control
  with minimal environmental impact and at low
  cost.
• The main focus is to promote beneficial insects
  that eat target pests.

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Chemical Control

• Synthetic pesticides are generally only used as
  required and only at specific times of a pests
  life cycle.

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Pesticides

• A pesticide is any substance or mixture of
  substances intended for preventing, destroying,
  repelling, and mitigating any pest.
• Positives Pesticides can kill potential disease
  causing organisms and control insects, weeds and
  other pests.
• Negatives Pesticides can cause harm to humans,
  animals or the environment because they are
  designed to kill or otherwise adversely affect
  living organisms.

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Top 10

• Cabbage head Caterpillar
• Diamondback Moth
• Potato Leafhoppers
• Alfalfa Caterpillar
• Flea Beetles
• Webworm
• Cucumber Beetles
• Stink Bugs
• Tadpole Shrimp
• Sugarbeet Root Maggots

Alfalfa Caterpillar
Potato leafhopper
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Work Cited

• www.highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0070294267/stud
  ent_view0/glossary_e-l.html
• www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/integrated_pest_m
  anagement
• www.pedagonet.com/insectclopedia/pest2.html