Integrated Pest Management

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Integrated Pest Management
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What is IPM?

• Integrated pest management (IPM) is an
  ecosystem-based strategy that focuses on
  long-term prevention of pests or their damage
  through a combination of techniques such as
• biological control,
• habitat manipulation,
• modification of cultural practices,
• and use of resistant varieties.

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Why use IPM?

• To reduce the pesticide load in the environment.
• To produce pest control programs that are
  economical and environmentally acceptable
• To increase utilization of natural pest controls.
• To minimize the risk to human health and the
  environment, by decreasing the use of pesticides.

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Harmful Insects
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Deer Tick

• Causes Lyme disease.

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Termites

• Eat wood-- become a problem when they consume
  structural lumber.
• Are helpful when they are used for recycling wood
  and plant material in an ecosystem.

Feeds on wood in buildings
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Aphids

• Biological Control -Natural Predators Include
• Ladybugs
• Parasitic wasps
• Fungal diseases
• Lacewing larvae
• By using these natural controls we can control
  the aphid population.
• If pesticides are used
• The biological controls will be killed as
  well as the aphids.

Small insects that feed on plant leaves.
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Mosquito

• Carries disease Biological Control
• Get rid of any free standing water
• If you have a pond stock it with mosquito eating
  fish.
• Dragonflies eat mosquitoes

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Clothes Moth

• Larva stage feeds on woolen clothes.
• Biological Control
• Low humidity
• Dry clean or launder frequently
• Use mothballs or crystals to protect stored
  clothes.

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Cockroach

• Contaminates food
• Cockroaches will leave and not return if there is
  no food, shelter and water-- Sanitary conditions
  will usually grant you freedom from cockroaches

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Bedbug

• Biological Control
• Bed bugs cannot climb polished glasss or metal
  easily and they don't fly, so that the legs of
  beds can also be placed inside glass jars or
  metal cans. Simple physical control methods
  include
• standing the legs of beds in soapy water,
• coating the legs with petroleum jelly or
  double-sided sticky tape.

Feeds on the blood of man and animals.
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Ants

• Sanitation is essential-- clean up spills
• Antlions-- eat ant larvae
• There are also many home remedies that have
  proven effective--
• Soap
• Pepper, etc

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Helpful Insects
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Ant Lion

• Larva feeds on ants

Antlion larvae
Adult antlion
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Silkworm Moth

• Larva spins silk threads

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Honeybees

• Provide honey
• Pollinates flowers

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Ladybird beetle(Ladybug)

• Feeds on plant aphids, mealbugs, and mites.

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Praying Mantid

• Feeds on a variety of insects harmful to man.

The Poster child for Helpful insects.
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Dragonfly

• Preys on mosquitoes and flies.