APES In A Box: Integrated Pest Management

Integrated Pest Management: A holistic control to pest management involving

biological control, cultivation techniques, and synthetic pesticides to tolerate level.
Philosophy of IPM: Pest and crop are part of ecological system.
Goal to reduce to not eradicate pest population.

IPM strategies:
Crop rotation to disturb the pest.
Creation of habitat for predator of pest population.
Using pest resistant crop varieties.
Altering plating times to disrupt pest life cycle.
Use method such as vacuums to remove pest, or spraying plants with hot water.
Narrow-spectrum, when cost of crop is greater than cost of spraying.

Advantages:
Reduce environmental and health problems with synthetic pesticide use.
Education for landowner and farmers.
Can be costly and not as immediately effective as synthetic pesticides.
Pest population is not usually not irradiated.

Disadvantages: IPM requires farmer to be well educated on local pest.
Solution may Vary,
Initial cost may be higher.


Biological Pest Control Notes
Biological pest control:
Predator species to control pest species.
Organism have all use certain circumstance to help control pest population.
Chemicals that are directly derived from living organism.

Advantages:
Control pest with not much impact in the environment.
Organic agriculture.

Disadvantages: non target species to be impacted by the introduced control species.
Disruption on food chain.
Unwanted introduces species.
Eradication of pest not usually possible.
ExpensivE.

Failures:
Cane toad in Australia.
Ladybugs impactive native species in US.

Success:
Using bat to control mosquitos.
Use flea beetles to control leafy spurge in north Dakota.