1. Integrated Pest Management

2. What is a Pest? Any organism that spreads disease, destroys property, competes with people for resources such as food, or is just a nuisance

3. Pesticides People typically will use pesticides, like: Insecticides Herbicides Nematicides Fungicides Rodenticides

4. Integrated Pest Management IPM – an information- based approach to controlling pests

5. Why do we have a pest problem? 98% of forests have been logged Pest populations have been altered by humans

6. Forest Pests Examples Tent Caterpillars Gypsy Moth Caterpillar Canadian Geese Mosquitoes

7. Exotic Pests An insect or other organism that is not native to an area and is introduced

8. Exotic Pests Examples Gypsy Moth Asian Long-horned Beetle European Starling Ladybugs

9. IPM in Practice Six Steps of IPM 1. Identify your pest and the damage properly 2. Learn the biology of your pest 3. Survey for pest population

10. Six Steps of IPM 4. Establish action threshold (tolerance level) 5. Select management tactics 6. Evaluate results

11. Management Tactics What you can do about it! Use the IPM Pyramid

12. IPM Pyramid First – Use Cultural/Physical Methods Multi-cropping Vacuuming Screens

13. IPM Pyramid Second – Biological/Genetic Methods Biocontrol Parasitoids Genetic Engineering

14. IPM Pyramid Third – Biorational Pesticides Water Spray Rotenone Soaps

15. IPM Pyramid Last Resort! – Chemical Pesticides Round up Insect sprays

16. Larger areas are controlled by: EPA USDA Pike County Conservation District

17. Effects on the Environment Positive Safer Fewer Pesticides Lower Cost

18. Effects on the Environment Negative Changes to the local ecosystem Does not eliminate all pests Takes a lot of time