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PRACTICAL IPMa.k.a. How I Learned to Love the Bugs
On The Agenda
•What is IPM
• I’m doing IPM? I think I am IPM’ing? I’m an IPM’er?
•Levelling UP! IPM Style!
•Tools You Can Use…or Making Time to Sleep!
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WHAT IS IPM?
What is IPM?
IPM is an ecosystem wide, information based approach to long term prevention and management of multiple, simultaneous pests through proper research,
identification, record keeping, and judicious use of controls while endeavouring to maintain the integrity of and reduce risk to the surrounding environment in an
economically feasible manner.
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What is IPM?
http://pestsandpollinators.com/integrated‐pest‐management/integrated‐pest‐management/
I’M DOING IPM?I THINK I AM IPM’ING?
I’M AN IPM’ER?Or “How to Stop Worrying and Start Scouting!”
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Adapted from “IPM in Practice: Principles and Methods of Integrated Pest Management” by Mary Louise Flint
Where do you stand?
Level 1 – 0‐10
Level 2 – 11‐25
Level 3 – 26‐50
Level 4 – 51+
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Level 1 – Pest Management Hobbit
• You generally use good agronomic practices and some farm sanitation
• You scout for your dominant pests
• You calibrate, operate, and clean your sprayer like you’re supposed to
• You treat your crop based on the what the calendar says, the stage the crop is at or whether you find a pest
Level 2 – Lygus Eating Leprechaun
• You incorporate some preventative practices like short rotations, disease/insect resistant cultivars, or use cultivation
• You scout for problems and spray when you hit your threshold using selective pesticides
• You try to avoid or delay resistance or secondary pests
• You incorporate traps for major pests and you visually scout for minor pests and beneficials
• You treat based on trying to minimize risk to beneficials and non‐target species
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Level 3 – BMSB Blackbelt
• You think about multiple ways to solve one problem
• You take away homes for pests and you increase biodiversity
• You’re using resistant varieties, cover crops, and longer rotations
• You monitor the crop stage and relation to the season and the weather patterns
• You use biorational (biological) pesticides
• You try to enhance beneficials and use soil amendments
• You incorporate insect and disease forecasting models
• You scout AND trap for major pests and beneficials
• You adjust thresholds based on how active beneficials are
Level 4 – Ecoystem Jedi
• You rely on preventative practices to keep pest populations low
• You rotate crops through the long term and look at how multiple crops interact
• You enhance plant health and soil quality in a bunch of ways
• You scout your fields to determine optimal timing for beneficial release
• You enhance and conserve beneficials and their habitat
• You incorporate microbial biocontrol for root diseases
• You develop thresholds for releasing/using beneficials and biopesticides
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LEVELLING UP! IPM STYLE!
a.k.a But I’m a Hobbit and I want to be a Jedi…
IPM As a Toolbox
http://npic.orst.edu/images/ipmbnr.gif
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But in Reality…
https://caseagrant.ucsd.edu/sites/default/files/IPM%20Pyramid%20%281%29.pnghttp://mhvillages.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=30205&title=35‐kubota‐tool‐chest‐300
Refresher Time!
• Cultural
• Mechanical/Physical
• Biological
• Chemical
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Cultural Controls• Setup an IPM program!
• Read, research, and learn
• Adopt thresholds for key pests (or here)
• Consider using a checklist
• Soil test
• Adapt fertility regime to rotation (crops before or after)
• “Farmscaping”
http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp‐content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/02/SeedValentine‐1024x1024‐537x438.jpg/
http://articles.extension.org/pages/18573/farmscaping:‐making‐use‐of‐natures‐pest‐management‐services/
Mechanical/Physical Controls
• Use a mulch product (poly, paper, biodegradable, geotextile, etc.)
• Consider crop covers, shade cloth, or low tunnels
• Investigate high tunnels
• Flame weeding
• Consider using a trap crop
• Pheromone or sticky traps
http://ag.arizona.edu/aes/yac/images/lettuce4.jpg
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Biological Controls
• Learn about beneficials in your field
• Consider effect of crop treatments on beneficial organisms
• Use biorational products
• Scout for beneficial insects
• Trap for beneficials
• Look at introducing and augmenting beneficials
http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/common_black_ground_beetle.htm
http://www.cityofgp.com/index.aspx?page=922
http://www.diptera.info/forum/attachments/img_5530_1.jpg
Chemical Controls
• Use as a last resort!
• Use soft chemicals when possible
• Read labels and don’t extrapolate!
• Know your nozzles
• Calibrate that sprayer!
• Buy yourself a gauge
• Sprayers101.com
http://sprayers101.com/wp‐content/uploads/2015/05/ST_Tips.jpg
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TOOLS YOU CAN USEOr “Making Time to Sleep”
There is NOT an app for that…
• CropalyseLimited to Beets, Brassicas, Carrots and Onions
Free!
• The Greenhouse Scout Mobile AppLimited to greenhouse
$$$$
• Annnnndddddd………
http://www.nysipm.cornell.edu/nursery_ghouse/GH_Scout_app.asp
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Websites!
• UC Statewide IPM Program
• New York State Integrated Pest Management
• Michigan State University IPM
• Ontario CropIPM
• Vineland’s greenhouseipm.org
• BioBest Side Effect Manual
• University of Delaware
• University of Maryland
Books ‐General
• IPM in Practice: Principles and Methods of Integrated Pest ManagementMary Louise Flint
• Natural Enemies HandbookMary Louise Flint
• Greenhouse IPM with an Emphasis on BiocontrolsPennsylvania Integrated Pest Management Program
• Commercial Vegetable Production on the PrairiesAlberta Agriculture and Forestry
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Books ‐ Insects
• Knowing and Recognizing: The biology of glasshouse pests and their natural enemiesM. H. Malais and W. J. Ravensberg
• Tree and shrub insects of the prairie provincesW.G.H. Ives and H.R. Wong
• Potato Field Guide: Insects, Diseases and DefectsOntario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
• Commercial Vegetable Production on the PrairiesAlberta Agriculture and Forestry
Books ‐Diseases
• Vegetable Diseases: A Colour HandbookSteven T. Koike, Peter Gladders, Albert O. Paulus
• Diseases and Pests of Vegetable Crops in CanadaRonald J. Howard, J. Allan Garland, W. Lloyd Seaman
• Potato Field Guide: Insects, Diseases and DefectsOntario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
• Commercial Vegetable Production on the PrairiesAlberta Agriculture and Forestry
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Books ‐Weeds
• Plants of Alberta: Trees, Shrubs, Wildflowers, Ferns, Aquatics Plants & GrassesFrance Royer and Richard Dickinson
• Weeds of North AmericaRichard Dickinson and France Royer
• Weeds of the PrairiesAlberta Agriculture and Forestry
• Weed Seedling GuideAlberta Agriculture and Forestry
QUESTIONS?Weeds? Insects? Marriage? Career? Salmon or steak?
