Integrated Pest Management & Biological Pest Management Notes
Integrated Pest Management:
-crop rotation to make it harder for them to grow in population
-Using Pest resistant crops
-altering planting times
- Managing pests involving biological control cultivation techniques and little use of synthetics
- Philosophy of IPM: to reduce the population of pests but not completely eradicate them
- Some IPM strategies:
-crop rotation to make it harder for them to grow in population
-Using Pest resistant crops
-altering planting times
- Physical pest control can include using a vacuum
- Narrow spectrum pesticides are used when crop loss is greater than spraying of pesticides
- IPM solutions vary from farm to farm
- Initial cost of IPM programs is higher than pesticide spraying
Biological Pest Control
-control of pests
-no environmental impacts
-use for organic agriculture
-nontarget organisms can be affects
-disruption of food chains
-costly
- Using living organisms to lower the pest population
- Some ex: predators, microorganisms, plants
- Advantages:
-control of pests
-no environmental impacts
-use for organic agriculture
- Disadvantages
-nontarget organisms can be affects
-disruption of food chains
-costly