IPM Integrated Pest Management

What is IPM

Scientifically based decision-making process that considers all available information and control strategies to manage pest problems, effectively economically, and in an environmentally stable manner.

6 main steps of an IPM program

1. Prevention

2. Identification

3. Monitoring

4. Thresholds

5. Treatments

6. Evaluation

   PIMTTE -acronym

Treatment: control methods for IPM include

Cultural control (change timing of crop, plant more densely, plant “trap crops”
Physical control (pulling weeds by hand)
/Mechanical control (tools)
Biological controls (animals grazing), releasing beneficials in greenhouses
Chemical controls

What is the definition of plant hardiness

Describes a plant’s ability to tolerate and survive adverse growing conditions such as cold, heat, drought, flooding, or wind

What is the most important elements when considering the zone a plant will thrive in?

Minimum winter temperatures

.__is the harshest hardiness zone on a scale of__to__

0

0-8

A and b represent what according to hardiness zones

A is a plant that can survive in the harshest part of a zone while b is only happy in the mildest part of a zone.

Prevention includes

Identification includes

Monitoring includes

Thresholds includes

Cultural treatments are:

Basically all of the preventative measures including monitoring even!

Planting - how what where

Pruning

Timing

Plant selection

Diversity vs monoculture

Irrigation

Mulching

Physical/mechanical Treatments include

Biological treatments include

Chemical treatments include

Evaluation includes

What is MOA (mode of action) mean in IPM

How pesticides are applied

Bio assay means

Testing using living organisms to evaluate efficacy or damage by a pesticide

Pesticides that target specific pests while causing minimal harm to beneficial organisms or non-target species- is called

Selective pesticides

LD 50 is a measure of

measure of a substances toxicity -dose that kills 50% of test population

A systemic pesticide

Goes through the entire plant/animal etc

The —- the number on an LD scale the more —

Lower

More toxic