How Integrated Pest Management Makes for Better Pest Control
The goal of Integrated Pest Management, like any pest control strategy, is to reduce pests to the lowest acceptable levels possible. But IPM also has the goal of minimizing the effects on humans, non-target organisms, and the environment.
IPM is a strategy that integrates long range tactics and methods. It’s not a single pest control method, but a combination of pest management evaluations, decisions, and controls. To prevent and suppress pests, IPM integrates these three tactics:
- prevention
- cultural practices
- mechanical, physical, biological, and chemical pest controls.
The Principles of Integrated Pest Management
These are the main principles of IPM:
- Before taking any action, identify the pests, their hosts, and any beneficial organisms that are natural enemies of the pest. Identify innocuous and beneficial species that really are not pests. This eliminates the possibility of using pesticides when they are not really needed.
- Establish a point at which pest populations or environmental conditions indicate that pest control action must be taken.
- Implement prevention tactics first if the pest population is low enough.
- Once prevention tactics are not effective enough to keep pest below the acceptable threshold, implement pest control methods.
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