Integrated Pest Management
What is IPM? Well IPM is a process you can use to minimise or solve pest problems with minimal risk to the people or the environment. Rather than just eliminating the pest with harmful chemicals, IPM uses the climate and the living conditions of the pest to affect the way they live then, create a unfavorable living place for them. This way the pest won’t come back, Why? This is because if you kill the pest then another of the same species will come, if you create unfavorable living conditions then the other pests of the same species will also not like the condition there-for getting rid of the pest. The question is “should integrated pest management be used by everyone in
Palm Coast?” I believe that everyone …show more content…
Cultural controls are practices that reduce pest establishment, reproduction, dispersal, and survival. “For example, changing irrigation practices can reduce pest problems, since too much water can increase root disease and weeds.” Mechanical and physical controls kill a pest directly or make the environment unsuitable for it. Traps for rodents are examples of mechanical control. Physical controls include mulches for weed management, steam sterilization of the soil for disease management, or barriers such as screens to keep birds or insects out. “Chemical control is the use of pesticides. In IPM, pesticides are used only when needed and in combination with other approaches for more effective, long-term control.” Also, pesticides are selected and applied in a way that …show more content…
Herbicides fall into two broad categories: inorganic (e.g., copper sulfate, sodium chlorate, and sodium arsenide) and organic (e.g., chlorophenoxy compounds, dinitrophenols, bipyridyl compounds, carbamates, and amide herbicides). Because plants and mammals differ in organization and physiology, it might be expected that herbicides would constitute only a slight chemical hazard to mammals. Whereas some herbicides have very low toxicities in mammals, others have considerable. Dinitrophenols have long been used in weed control. Human exposure to these compounds can cause death or recovery occurs within 24 hours. Herbicides can also be transported via surface runoff to contaminate distant surface waters and hence another pathway of ingestion through extraction of those surface waters for drinking. http://npic.orst.edu/pest/weeds.html http://livinggreen.ifas.ufl.edu/landscaping/fertilizers_and_pesticides.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/herbicide.htm http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/GENERAL/whatisipm.html www.ipm.ucdavis.edu www.chemistryexplained.com
What is IPM? Well IPM is a process you can use to minimise or solve pest problems with minimal risk to the people or the environment. Rather than just eliminating the pest with harmful chemicals, IPM uses the climate and the living conditions of the pest to affect the way they live then, create a unfavorable living place for them. This way the pest won’t come back, Why? This is because if you kill the pest then another of the same species will come, if you create unfavorable living conditions then the other pests of the same species will also not like the condition there-for getting rid of the pest. The question is “should integrated pest management be used by everyone in
Palm Coast?” I believe that everyone …show more content…
Cultural controls are practices that reduce pest establishment, reproduction, dispersal, and survival. “For example, changing irrigation practices can reduce pest problems, since too much water can increase root disease and weeds.” Mechanical and physical controls kill a pest directly or make the environment unsuitable for it. Traps for rodents are examples of mechanical control. Physical controls include mulches for weed management, steam sterilization of the soil for disease management, or barriers such as screens to keep birds or insects out. “Chemical control is the use of pesticides. In IPM, pesticides are used only when needed and in combination with other approaches for more effective, long-term control.” Also, pesticides are selected and applied in a way that …show more content…
Herbicides fall into two broad categories: inorganic (e.g., copper sulfate, sodium chlorate, and sodium arsenide) and organic (e.g., chlorophenoxy compounds, dinitrophenols, bipyridyl compounds, carbamates, and amide herbicides). Because plants and mammals differ in organization and physiology, it might be expected that herbicides would constitute only a slight chemical hazard to mammals. Whereas some herbicides have very low toxicities in mammals, others have considerable. Dinitrophenols have long been used in weed control. Human exposure to these compounds can cause death or recovery occurs within 24 hours. Herbicides can also be transported via surface runoff to contaminate distant surface waters and hence another pathway of ingestion through extraction of those surface waters for drinking. http://npic.orst.edu/pest/weeds.html http://livinggreen.ifas.ufl.edu/landscaping/fertilizers_and_pesticides.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/herbicide.htm http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/GENERAL/whatisipm.html www.ipm.ucdavis.edu www.chemistryexplained.com