IPM Overview
Smart pest control tactics you can use
IPM tools • Monitor, monitor, monitor & predict • Traps using pheromones & pesticides• Biological control with parasites or predators• Microbes like fungus, bacteria, virus• Plant resistance to pests by leaf hairs, spines,
plant chemicals, tough tissue, bad taste• Plant extracts like neem
Monitor leaf roller moth populations with pheromone traps
Checking the pheromone trap
Yellow sticky trap monitors for aphids in cabbage
Hedgerow flowers planted to encourage parasites that eat pests
Tomato fruitworm larva eats tomato
Parasitic wasp stings tomato fruitworm larva
Intercrop French beans & insect-repellant cilantro
Crop rotation reduces disease innoculum: corn to beans
Prune out (sanitation) diseased powdery mildew branches
Predatory mite eats red mite of apple
Peristenus wasp parasitizing an green peach aphid
Lysiphlebus wasp emerging from aphid mummy
Minute Trichogramma wasps attacking moth eggs
Ladybug eating San Jose scale
Big-eyed predator bug eats tomato fruitworm egg
Spined soldier bug eats Colorado potato beetle larva
Lacewing adult and larva eat green apple aphids
Mantids eat pests but are also killed by pesticide over-spraying
White grub attacked by Bacillus bacteria
NPV Virus kills a webworm moth larva
Cabbageworm infected by virus
Hairy & sticky potato variety that traps aphids
Phytophthora root & stem rot susceptible and resistant plants
Coddling moth damage to apple
Coddling Moth Mating Disruption Pheromone Dispenser in Apple Orchard
Grinding Neem leaves in Mali
Neem extract
Spraying Neem leaf extracts to control bean pests in Mali
Farmer Mazen greenhouses in Jordan
Cover plants for protection
Constant monitoring for pests
Spot treatment on small pest areas, not on entire crop
Daily attention to the crop
Constant monitoring for pests
Fruits of Mazen’s hard work
