IPM

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IPM Integrated Pest Management
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What is IPM???

• IPM (integrated pest management)
• is a sustainable approach to managing pests by
  combining
• biological,
• chemical,
• cultural, and
• physical tools
• in a way that minimizes economic, health, and
  environmental risks.

From Anonymous. 1994 Integrated Pest Management
Practices in 1991 Fruits and Nuts, RTD Updates
Pest Management, USDA-ERS, 8pp.
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What is a Pest?
A plant or animal that is out of place
This includes Diseases, Weeds, Arthropods,
Reptiles, Mammals, etc.
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Is this a pest?
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Is this a pest?

• That depends is he in your garden or your house?

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Pest management toolbox

• Cultural control
• Physical control
• Biological control
• Chemical control

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CULTURAL CONTROL
NOT all azaleas were created equal
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CULTURAL CONTROL

• Use pest free plants
• Use resistant varieties
• Destroy refuse

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Grow healthy plants Stressed plants are
generally more susceptible to pest attack
Cultural Methods fertilization
watering, pruning,
sanitation, etc.
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Physical control
Usually most labor intensive
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Physical control
And dont forget about the environmentally
friendly SQUASHING method of insect control
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Biological Control

• The use of living organisms to control pests

• Predators
• Parasites
• Pathogens

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Predators

• Kill many prey
• Often generalists rather than specialists
• 200,000 species

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Predators

• General Rule
• Bigger
• Badder
• Fewer

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Biological Control

• The use of living organisms to control pests

• Predators
• Parasites
• Pathogens

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Parasites
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Parasite

• Very stealthy and often small
• Leave a trail of bodies
• Very specialized
• Develop from eggs laid in or on host (think
  Aliens)

Healthy aphids
Parasitized aphids
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Biological Control

• The use of living organisms to control pests

• Predators
• Parasites
• Pathogens

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Pathogens

• Usually very specific
• leave a trail of bodies
• may take a few days to provide control (lag time)
• kill, reduce reproduction, reduce insect health

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Chemical control

• Should be used as a last resort and with the
  lowest impact on natural enemies and YOU!

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What makes a pesticide compatiblewith an IPM
program?

• Selectivity
• residual activity
• time,rate, and place where sprayed

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And Scouting
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SCOUTING

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• Favorable conditions
• Signs of the pests
• damage
• frass
• The actual pest
• Signs of natural enemies

LOOK FOR

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THE END