HOW GREEN IS YOUR PEST CONTROL PROGRAM?

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HOW GREEN IS YOUR PEST CONTROL PROGRAM?

• --INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT--
• WAYNE WALKER
• UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
• DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
• RESIDENCE EDUCATION

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INTRODUCTION

• HISTORY
• DEFINITIONS
• ELEMENTS
• PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
• CERTIFICATION

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HISTORY OF IPM

• Began in the agricultural community
• Driven by economics at first
• Many years later it became driven by worker
  safety issues

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HISTORY OF IPM

• 1959 - Integrated Control Concept
• 1962 Rachael Carson, Silent Spring
• 1970 EPA established
• 1972 EPA Cancels most uses of DDT

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HISTORY OF IPM

• 1993 - The Clinton Administration called for
  implementation of IPM on 75 of Americas crop
  land by the year 2000
• 1996 Food Quality Protection Act

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HISTORY OF IPM

• 1998 IPM Institute of North America formed
• 2003 Green Shield Certification established
• Today 33 states have IPM programs

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DEFINITIONS

• Many and varied
• Most are associated with agriculture
• Depends on what outlook is represented
• Each organization will need to establish a
  definition that works for their facility

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NPMA

• IPM is a process involving common sense and sound
  solutions for treating and controlling pests.
  These solutions incorporate three basic steps 1)
  inspection, 2) identification and 3) treatment. 
  Treatment options vary from sealing cracks and
  removing food and water sources to pesticide
  treatments when necessary.

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CORNELL UNIVERSITY

• Integrated pest management, or IPM, is both a way
  of thinking and a way of acting in regard to
  pests. People who practice IPM try to prevent
  damage from pests or to manage them in ways that
  reduce risks to the environment and human health.

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BIO-INTEGRAL RESOURCE CENTER

• IPM is a decision-making process that emphasizes
  prevention and non-chemical treatment, where
  treatments are selected from available
  biological, cultural, manual, mechanical,
  physical, educational, and chemical strategies.
  Reduced-risk chemical controls are included in
  the treatment program

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PURDUE UNIVERSITY

• IPM is a process for achieving long term,
  environmentally sound pest suppression through
  the use of a wide variety of technological and
  management practices. Control strategies in an
  IPM program extend beyond the application of
  pesticides to include structural and procedural
  modifications that reduce the food, water, living
  space and access used by pests.

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SCHOOL IPM WEBSITE

• IPM is a process for balancing the risks between
  pests and pesticides to achieve long term pest
  suppression.  Control strategies in an IPM
  program extend beyond the application of
  pesticides to include structural and procedural
  modifications that reduce the food, water,
  harborage, and access used by pests.

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DEFINITION

• What is your definition?
• What is the major difference between definitions?
• Do pesticides have a place in your IPM program?

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ELEMENTS OF IPM

• Number is dependant on program
• There are 6 to 8 key elements
• There is no significance to the order that they
  will be presented in

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ELEMENTS OF IPM

• Knowledge
• Communications
• Inspection/Monitoring
• Identification
• Exclusion
• Sanitation
• Treatment Strategy
• Evaluation

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KNOWLEDGE

• Institutional staff
• Pest control provider
• Residents

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COMMUNICATIONS

• Key element between participants
• May take a variety of forms
• Addresses problems, solutions, and prevention

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INSPECTION/MONITORING

• Performed on a scheduled basis
• Results documented
• Provides prevention, early intervention, and
  validation of success

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IDENTIFICATION

• Sample of pest is important
• Proper ID is vital
• Leads to proper plans for control

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EXCLUSION

• First step in control
• May be the only steps required for control
• Can be performed by anyone

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SANITATION

• A tenet of IPM, deny food, water, and harborage
• Should be part of inspection process
• Is normally an educational issue

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TREATMENT STRATEGY

• Developed with safety as most important factor
• Utilizing all of IPM tools
• Can this strategy be sustained

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EVALUATION

• All inspections documented
• Create a data base
• Analyze data on regular basis

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PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

• Examples of products that might be utilized in
  IPM
• Views of problems you may face
• Elements of new construction that may not fit
  pest exclusion model

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PRODUCT EXAMPLES

• A few videos of household products effectiveness
  on insects
• Plant extract (Botanicals) used for insect control

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MY 409
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COCKROACH SOAP
Click for video
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HOUSE FLY SOAP SPRAY
Click for video
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BOTANICALS

• Botanicals (essential plant oils)
• Rosemary
• Thyme Oil
• Eugenol (a.k.a. clove oil)
• Peppermint
• Phenethyl propionate (peanut oil)
• Wintergreen
• D-limonene (orange oil)

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EcoSMART PRODUCTS
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TYPICAL PROBLEMS

• Sanitation
• Exclusion
• Construction

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IPM ISSUES
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IPM ISSUES
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NEW BUILDING ISSUES
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CERTIFICATION

• Establishes uniform standards
• Validates the IPM process
• Provides independent verification of programs

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CERTIFICATION

• IPM Institute of North America
• Green Shield Certified Facilities
• Green Shield Certified Providers
• IPM Star

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CERTIFICATION CRITERIA

• Facility meets legal requirements
• All pesticide applications are strictly monitored
  and only applied when no other alternatives are
  available
• Least-hazardous pesticide product selection

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CERTIFICATION CRITERIA

• The following IPM procedures are followed
• Inspection/monitoring of structures and landscape
  
• Sanitation
• Exclusion

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CERTIFICATION CRITERIA

• Establishment of the following types of written
  policies is required
• Formal IPM program
• IPM coordinator position
• Open communications policy
• Application notification policy
• Record keeping

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CERTIFICATION

• EcoWise Certified
• Project of the Association of Bay Area
  Governments
• Funded through state and private donations
• Partnered with Bio-Integral Resource Center,
  NRDC, and Sacramento Stormwater Quality
  Parternership

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QUESTIONS

• Share with us your IPM experiences
• Review

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CONTACT INFORMATION

• WAYNE WALKER
• UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
• DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
• RESIDENCE EDUCATION
• E-MAIL WAYNEW_at_HOUSING.UFL.EDU
• OFFICE PHONE [phone]
• EXT 10917
• CELL PHONE [phone]