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Integrated Pest Management - Online Essay

Integrated Pest Management

(IPM) is a recently developed technology for pest
control that is aimed at achieving the desired control while reducing the use of
pesticides. To accomplish this, various combinations of chemical, biological,
and physical controls are employed. In the past, pesticides were all too often
applied routinely whether needed or not. With IPM, pest populations as well as
beneficial parasite and predator populations are monitored to determine whether
the pests actually present a serious problem that needs to be treated. If
properly and extensively employed, IPM might reduce pesticide use by as much as
50 percent, while at the same time improving pest control. If this goal were
achieved, the ...

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beneficial insects that eat harmful species. Many pests that are attached to
crop residues can be eliminated by plowing them underground. Simple paper or
plastic barriers placed around fruit trees deter insects, which can also be
attracted to light traps and destroyed. Weeds can be controlled by spreading
grass, leaf, or black plastic mulch. Weeds also may be pulled or hoed from the
soil.

Many biological controls are also effective. Such insect pests as the European
corn borer, and the Japanese beetle, have been controlled by introducing their
predators and parasites. Wasps that prey on fruit-boring insect larvae are now
being commercially bred and released in California orchards. The many hundreds
of species of viruses, bacteria, protozoa, fungi, and nematodes that parasitize
pest insects and weeds are now being investigated as selective control agents.

Another area of biological control is breeding host plants to be pest resistant,
making them less prone to attack by fungi ...

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