IPM Overview

Smart pest control tactics you can use

IPM tools • Monitor, monitor, monitor & predict • Traps using pheromones & pesticides• Biological control with parasites or predators• Microbes like fungus, bacteria, virus• Plant resistance to pests by leaf hairs, spines,

plant chemicals, tough tissue, bad taste• Plant extracts like neem

Monitor leaf roller moth populations with pheromone traps

Checking the pheromone trap

Yellow sticky trap monitors for aphids in cabbage

Hedgerow flowers planted to encourage parasites that eat pests

Tomato fruitworm larva eats tomato

Parasitic wasp stings tomato fruitworm larva

Intercrop French beans & insect-repellant cilantro

Crop rotation reduces disease innoculum: corn to beans

Prune out (sanitation) diseased powdery mildew branches

Predatory mite eats red mite of apple

Peristenus wasp parasitizing an green peach aphid

Lysiphlebus wasp emerging from aphid mummy

Minute Trichogramma wasps attacking moth eggs

Ladybug eating San Jose scale

Big-eyed predator bug eats tomato fruitworm egg

Spined soldier bug eats Colorado potato beetle larva

Lacewing adult and larva eat green apple aphids

Mantids eat pests but are also killed by pesticide over-spraying

White grub attacked by Bacillus bacteria

NPV Virus kills a webworm moth larva

Cabbageworm infected by virus

Hairy & sticky potato variety that traps aphids

Phytophthora root & stem rot susceptible and resistant plants

Coddling moth damage to apple

Coddling Moth Mating Disruption Pheromone Dispenser in Apple Orchard

Grinding Neem leaves in Mali

Neem extract

Spraying Neem leaf extracts to control bean pests in Mali

Farmer Mazen greenhouses in Jordan

Cover plants for protection

Constant monitoring for pests

Spot treatment on small pest areas, not on entire crop

Daily attention to the crop

Constant monitoring for pests

Fruits of Mazen’s hard work