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Integrated Pest Management

What is a pest? What is Integrated Pest Management?

Scouting

Components of IPM

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What is a pest?

The definition of a pest depends onyour own perception and decision-making

The purpose is to harvest a food product

in the quality and quantity that isacceptable to you

Crops often can tolerate some damagewithout affecting their utility to you

Crops generally have certain stages of

growth that are particularly vulnerable topests

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Pests

A wide array of organisms are foundin 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

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Pests

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) IPM is an approach to pest

management that integrates a variety

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 byfactors other than pests

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IPM putting together thepieces

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Pests Scouting for pests

Systematically check for pestsand damage symptoms Black or brown lesions on leaf

surfaces Holes from boring insects

Tattered edges from chewinginsects

A fundamental point in pestmanagement:A certain number of pest individuals

or amount of damage can betolerated

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Pest Prevention

Prevent problemsbefore they occur

Ensure that as fewold pests as possible

get into your garden Sanitation practices

aim to remove sources

of new pest species

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Pests: Biological Control

Definition: Any activity of onespecies that reduces the adverseeffects of another

Examples Predators and parasites of insects

Most biological control

works naturally without

assistance from the gardener

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Pests: Biological Controls

Ways you can encourage beneficialorganisms

Provide a habitat that is favorable for thebiological control agent

Buying biological control agents Generally are either not adapted or are too

mobile and do not stay in a garden

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Pests: Cultural Controls

Critical concept: A vigorously growing crop can tolerate more pest

damage or better compete with weeds than a less

Examples of cultural control Planting time

Fertile, well-drained soils

Adequate water Resistant varieties

Mulching

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Pests: Mechanical Controls

Mechanical control is widely used forweed control and to prepare the soil ingardens

Examples of mechanical controls Tillage

Hoeing

Plant cages Row covers

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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