Integrated Pest Management Flashcards
Why Practice IPM?
** **To have a Proactive, Dynamic and Holistic program to manage your turf. One that takes the whole ecosystem into consideration and provides the best practices for your entire site.
Define IPM:
IPM or Integrated Pest Management is an informed, sustainable approach to managing plants and pests by combining cultural, biological, physical and chemical tactics in a way that minimizes economic, health and environmental risks.
What is an Economic advantage to IPM?
Offers cost-benefit analysis to determine the most economical approach to plant health
What are the Environmental advantages to IPM?
- Minimizes ecosystem disruption using ecologically based programs
- Usually reduces total pesticide use
What Public Relations advantage do you have using an IPM?
- Documents complex science-based decisions needed to manage plants and plant systems
What are the Professional Advantages of using IPM?
- Processed approach to organized, planned responses to risk
- Contract between client and crew about how decisions are made and what results should be expected
Why is Site Assesment important im IPM?
- Complete evaluation of management area
- Includes key plants and all other conditions
- Documents current situation
- Results in map
Why is a Monitoring Program important to have for IPM?
- Regular inspection of the area allows you to detect problem areas as well as evaluate how treated areas are doing.
- Uses current science as a guide
What is it important to have Decision Making Guidelines as part of your IPM?
Sets threshholds or tolerance levels for making informed decisions. Uses current science as a guide.
What is involved when you have an Intervention Plan for your IPM?
It Identifies management options:
- Uses current science as guide
- Seeks least toxic approach
- Chooses proper tools
- Organizes treatments
- Optimizes practices
Why is Record Keeping important for IPM?
- Builds historical record
- Determines the success of management tactics
- Determines the effectiveness of treatments
- Provides cost-benefit analysis
- Leads to good planning
- For regulatory requirements
Why is it important to have Education as part of the IPM?
- Employee and client
- Ongoing program to keep up with new science and technology
- Leads to good planning
- Sound decision-making
- Realistic expectaions
