Learning Objectives:

• Create understanding and increase awareness of IPM
• Importance of IPM to Producers
• Importance of IPM to the environment
• Importance of IPM to human health and safety
• Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategies
• Advantages and limitations to IPM

Definition of Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Why IPM?

• Pesticide resistance
• Secondary pest outbreaks
• Environmental concerns

Definition of Pest?

What does IPM do?

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Tactics

Utilizes all suitable pest management tactics

Should Pesticides be used in an IPM program?

What makes a pesticide compatible with an IPM program?

• Sanitary Control
• Cultural Control
• Physical Control
• Natural Control
•  Biological Control
• Predators
• Parasites
• Pathogens
• Host Plant Resistance
• Electronic methods
• Regulatory control

Economic Injury Level (EIL)?

Economic Threshold (ETL)?

Economic Threshold Example: European corn borer on Corn

Leafhopper Threshold for Alfalfa

The economic Threshold Concept doesn’t work for all pests and pests types

 Disadvantages of an IPM Program

• Requires a higher degree of management
• More labor-intensive
• Success can be weather dependent
• How many types of pests are there?

• What are the cultural methods of pest control?

• What are the four main groups of pests?

• What are the major pests?

• Conclusion