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    Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is an approach that integrates various techniques to identify and manage pests if necessary. These techniques include scouting to monitor for pests, preventing pest problems through sanitation, encouraging biological controls like predators, using cultural controls like resistant plant varieties, employing mechanical controls such as tillage, and applying pesticides as a last resort.

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    Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is an approach that integrates various techniques to identify and manage pests if necessary. These techniques include scouting to monitor for pests, preventing pest problems through sanitation, encouraging biological controls like predators, using cultural controls like resistant plant varieties, employing mechanical controls such as tillage, and applying pesticides as a last resort.

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    Integrated Pest Management

     What is a pest?
     What is Integrated Pest Management?
     Why use IPM?
     Scouting
     Components of IPM
    What is a pest?
     The definition of a pest depends on
    your own perception and decision-
    making
     Pest management
     The purpose is to harvest a food product
    in the quality and quantity that is
    acceptable to you
     Crops often can tolerate some damage
    without affecting their utility to you
     Crops generally have certain stages of
    growth that are particularly vulnerable to
    pests
    Pests
     A wide array of organisms are found
    in the garden
     Beneficial organisms
     Bees, spiders, ladybugs, praying mantis,
    frogs
     Incidental organisms
     Flies, mosquitoes
     Pests
     Japanese beetles, cucumber beetles,
    cabbage loopers, Colorado potato beetles,
    rabbits
    Pests
     Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
     IPM is an approach to pest
    management that integrates a variety
    of techniques to identify and, if
    necessary, to manage a pest
     Important points
     Integrate a variety of techniques
     Identification
     Do not always need to manage pest
     Are not eliminating every pest
     Damage symptoms can be caused by
    factors other than pests
    IPM – putting together the
    pieces
    Pests
     Scouting for pests
     Systematically check for pests
    and damage symptoms
     Black or brown lesions on leaf
    surfaces
     Holes from boring insects
     Tattered edges from chewing
    insects
     A fundamental point in pest
    management:
     A certain number of pest individuals
    or amount of damage can be
    tolerated
    Pest Prevention
    Prevent problems
    before they occur
     Sanitation

     Ensure that as few


    “old” pests as possible
    get into your garden
     Sanitation practices
    aim to remove sources
    of new pest species
    Pests: Biological Control
     Definition: Any activity of one
    species that reduces the adverse
    effects of another
     Examples
     Predators and parasites of insects
    Most biological control
    works naturally without
    assistance from the gardener
    Pests: Biological Controls
     Ways you can encourage beneficial
    organisms
     Avoid use of broad spectrum pesticides
     Provide a habitat that is favorable for the
    biological control agent
     Buying biological control agents
     Generally are either not adapted or are too
    mobile and do not stay in a garden
    Pests: Cultural Controls
     Critical concept:
     A vigorously growing crop can tolerate more pest
    damage or better compete with weeds than a less
    healthy one
     Examples of cultural control
     Planting time
     Fertile, well-drained soils
     Adequate water
     Resistant varieties
     Mulching
    Pests: Mechanical Controls
     Mechanical control is widely used for
    weed control and to prepare the soil in
    gardens
     Examples of mechanical controls
     Tillage
     Hoeing
     Plant cages
     Row covers
    Pests: Pesticides
     Are materials that kill pests
     Include:
     Insecticides - control insects
     Herbicides - control weeds
     There are both organic and synthetic
    pesticides
     Problems with pesticides
     Are easy to overuse
     Can affect non-target organisms
     Use as a last resort

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