Integrated Pest Management

By: Matthew Burger and Kelly Brown

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.

IPM• Integrated Pest Management system is based around six

basic components:– Acceptable Pest Levels– Preventive cultural practices– Monitoring– Mechanical Controls– Biological Controls– Chemical Controls

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.

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.

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

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

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

Biological Control• Use predator of the pest

to control them• 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.

Chemical Control• Synthetic pesticides are generally only used as required

and only at specific times of a pests life cycle.

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.

DDT

• Pesticide

• Now banned in US

• Caused shells of birds to cave in

• Affected mainly birds of prey

Bioaccumulation• Accumulation of toxins in the tissue of an

organism

Top 10

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

Potato leafhopper

Alfalfa Caterpillar

Work Cited

• www.highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0070294267/student_view0/glossary_e-l.html

• www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/integrated_pest_management

• www.pedagonet.com/insectclopedia/pest2.html