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Integrated Pest management

Insects & Diseases. Integrated Pest management. IPM Defined:. "IPM is a sustainable approach to managing pests by combining biological, cultural, physical and chemical tools in a way that minimizes economic, health, and environmental risks.". IPM.

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Integrated Pest management

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  1. Insects & Diseases Integrated Pest management

  2. IPM Defined: • "IPM is a sustainable approach to managing pests by combining biological, cultural, physical and chemical tools in a way that minimizes economic, health, and environmental risks."

  3. IPM • Pest management, not eradication, is the goal. • Manage pests below the economic threshold.

  4. Economic Threshold • How would you define it? • The point at which the disease or pest infestation begins to diminish the quality of the crop.

  5. Economic Thresholds • Thresholds should be quantitative and grower driven. • For example, thresholds could be based on the average number of pests per trap each week. • the percent of plants or leaves found to be damaged or infested during visual inspection. • the number of pests dislodged per shake sample.

  6. Economic Threshold 80 Avoid exceeding economic injury level 70 EIL 60 Apply controls 50 Pest density ET 40 Averagedensity 30 20 10 0 Time

  7. Economic Thresholds • Vary depending upon the crop. • Bacterial Leaf Spot on Poinsettia: • Devastating! • Bacterial Leaf Spot on Greenhouse Tomatoes: • Not such a big deal. Why? • Insects & diseases on ornamental crops grown in nurseries: • Big deal? Yes or no?

  8. Scouting and Record Keeping

  9. Also called “monitoring’. • Perform weekly. • In greenhouses focus monitoring near doorways, vents and fans. • 1 card per 1,000 square feet. • Yellow: attracts most flying insects • Blue: for thrips • Replace cards on a regular basis.

  10. Cultural IPM Tactics

  11. Sanitation • The goal of sanitation is to eliminate all possible sources of the pest. • weed removal inside and outside the greenhouse. • grass flowering-increase in thripspopulation • weed removal around nurseries. • dispose of dead/diseased plants. • In greenhouses: • quarantine infested plants in a separate room. • medium pasteurization (especially if it contains soil). • algae control-fungus gnats.

  12. Watering • Too much moisture: • leaf diseases • root rots • fungus gnats • algae • Too little moisture: • stresses the plants and predisposes it to disease • hot, dry conditions favor spider mites

  13. Temperature • Plants begin to stress at temperatures of 95 degrees F. and higher. • Temperature fluctuations.

  14. Growing Medium • Should have good aeration/drainage. • Monitor EC.

  15. Variety Selection • Choose insect/disease resistant varieties. • If possible, rotate crops.

  16. Physical/Mechanical IPM Tactics

  17. Insect Screening

  18. Biological IPM Tactics • The use of living organisms to control pests.

  19. Lady Bugs

  20. Parasitic Wasps

  21. Predatory Mites

  22. Chemical IPM Tactics: • Biorational Pesticides • Conventional Pesticides

  23. Biorational Pesticides: • Insecticidal Soaps • Horticultural Oils • Bacillus thuringiensis-bacteria • Beauveriabassiana-fungus that infects the chitin exoskeleton of many pests • Diatomaceous Earth • IGR’s • kill insects by disrupting their development

  24. Conventional Pesticides • Licensed Applicator • WPS • Re-entry Times • Residue • Resistance • rotate between groups/active ingredients

  25. Major Insect Pests of Greenhouse-Grown Bedding Plants:

  26. Aphids • Thrips • Fungus Gnats • Whiteflies • Shore Flies • Leafminers • Mealybugs • Spider Mites

  27. Aphids

  28. Immature & Adult Greenhouse Thrips

  29. Thrips Life-Cycle

  30. Greenhouse Whiteflies

  31. Mealybug excreting honeydew

  32. Two-spotted Spider Mite Red Spider Mite

  33. END

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