Course Modules

IPM

Hallmarks of IPM

IPM Amuck

Assignment 9

Integrated Pest Management

Learning Objectives

• Examine the features of "integrated pest management" and contrast IPM to traditional pest management strategies.
  
• List the procedures that occur during IPM.
  
• Evaluate the financial and environmental benefits of IPM.
  
• Complete and submit Assignment #9.

A Systems Approach to Pest Management
Careful observation of pest populations, use of biological pesticides and predatory insects, and establishment of economic thresholds for crop damage are all hallmarks of IPM.

"The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men..."
IPM strategies require exhaustive research and careful observation! Sometimes predators imported to solve a problem can cause quite a different problem themselves. Read about some problems caused by the Harmonia lady beetle.

Emerging Pests
One of the challenges of IPM is that the job is never done. Who would have thought that the introduction of ornamental plants into the landscape would have given rise to the invasive species problems now being explored by environmentalists. Who would have thought that the white tailed deer would become the number one pest problem in the suburban landscape? How do you approach such complex problems?

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