IPM (Integrated Pest Management)

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IPM (Integrated Pest Management)

• By Jerrica Li

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What is IPM?

• Common sense pest control
• Is an effective but also an environmentally
  friendly approach on managing pests
• You need to understand the specific needs of the
  pests to put IPM into action

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The 6 steps of IPM

• 1.) INSPECT INVESTIGATE (the detective stage)
• -gather clues(interviewing people)
• -inspect the buildings and grounds to know the
  problem that needs to be fixed
• -results from the inspection should be written
  down as in what specific evidence that they found
  in each room
• 2.) IDENTIFY LEARN
• -identify what pest you are going against
• -educate your knowledge on the pest by reading
  about its life-cycle, food sources, habitats,
  special skills, and usual enemies

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• 3.) MONITOR
• -inspecting of areas where pests are occurring an
  where they might occur
• Monitoring traps tells us
• -if the population of the pest is decreasing or
  going up
• -if the make-up of the population is changing
• -what direction are they traveling in
• 4.) CHOOSE CONTROL METHODS
• -info gathered in previous steps helps choose the
  best control methods for the situation
• Types of control methods habitat modification,
  physical, biological control, and pesticides

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• 5.) EVALUATE
• -allows you to improve and adjust the program
• -provides an chance for the participants in the
  IPM program to look at the monitoring records and
  check if the program is using the right solutions
  in fixing the pest problems
• Questions to be asked
• -were the actions we took necessary?
• -did we solve the problems from the actions and
  treatments we used?
• -could we have done it better next time?
• - Better info to aid us in pest management
  decisions in the future?
• 6.) EDUCATE
• -helps people be more aware of how they throw out
  their trash and store food ( is a key part to
  productively managing pests)

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Why IPM?

• Its an environmentally friendly way of solving
  pest issues
• Pesticide use might contaminate the food you eat,
  the water you drink, and you yourself
• IPM pesticides have the lowest amount of toxic
  in it

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The 6 tactics of IPM

• 1.) SANITATION
• - Frequent and careful cleaning to eliminate the
  food pests eat
• Ex. Wiping down countertops with Lysol wipes and
  cleaning the places that you use to wash and
  clean things can help control pests.
• 2.) Physical
• - Involves mechanical/non-chemical ways of
  eliminating pests or preventing them to enter a
  certain area
• Ex. You can use traps or barriers to capture
  pests.
• 3.) Biological Control
• - Relies on natural enemies of the pest
• Ex. A toad can eat 3,000 grubs, slugs, or beetles
  every month.

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• 4.) Pesticides
• - Help eliminate existing pests (habitat
  modification)
• Ex. You can use insecticides(type of pesticides)
  to kill spiders and fleas.
• 5.) Cultural
• - reduces the conditions that the pest needs to
  live
• Ex. crop rotation, pruning, varying planting
  dates, and good sanitation
• 6.) Chemical
• - involves the use of naturally resulting or made
  pesticides. IPM programs choose the least toxic,
  most specific pesticide and aim them at where the
  pests are living.
• Ex.

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Emerald Ash Borer

• Its non-native to PA
• -came from Asia
• Agrilus planipennis

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Pest Characteristics/traits (adults)

• Very small, metallic-like green beetles
• Up to 3/8 - ½ inches long and 1/16 inches wide
• Creates a D shaped hole as it chews its self out
  beneath the bark of ash trees (late May through
  mid-July)
• Never wonders more than one mile away from where
  it exited a tree, to search for a mate
• Female lays 60-90 eggs in a crack of an ash tree
  bark

Life span 3-6 weeks
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Life History

• Egg very small (1mm),
• - mother leaves them in a black crack,
• - larvae hatch from egg and immediately chew
  their way into the tree
• Larva(immature stage of EAB) white slightly
  flattened,1.5 inch in length (full grown)
• -Wind back and forth as they feed creating
  galleries (S-shaped patterns)
• -Feed under bark for 1 or 2 years and can survive
  in green wood
• Adult 3/8 ½ in. long 1/16 inch wide very
  small
• - Live a total of 3 to weeks
• - Emerges and creates a D shaped hole as it chews
  its self out beneath the bark of ash trees (late
  May through mid-July)

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Life Cycle of EAB
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EAB in PA Techniques used to Control the pest

• First emerald ash borer infestation in PA was
  detected in Cranberry Township, Butler County in
  June 2007
• EAB has almost killed more than 4o million ash
  trees PA and other states
• Purple panel sticky trap
• 12 of PAs cities are now under quarantine
• Result a state forced quarantine has been
  declared restricting the movement of
  all ash stock, green lumber, and
  other ash material (including logs, branches,
  wood chips, and firewood).