National School IPM
What is Integrated Pest Management (IPM)?
People appreciate a comfortable environment in which to live and work. Environments comfortable to us may also provide food, water and harborage to pests. By using an integrated strategy for pest management, we can reduce numbers of pests as well as maintain a healthy environment.
IPM is a process for balancing the risks between pests and pesticides to achieve long term pest suppression. IPM uses a wide variety of technological and management practices. Control strategies in an IPM program extend beyond the application of pesticides to include structural and procedural modifications that reduce the food, water, harborage, and access used by pests.
Points of IPM
- Communication
- Identification
- Monitoring
- Exclusion
- Sanitation
- Treatment Strategy
- Evaluation
