Pest Management

• The types of IPM are cultural, biological, physical, resistant host varieties, and pesticides
• Steps for implementing an IPM plan are prevention, identification, monitoring, making an action decision, and treatment control
• Key points about pest management include the interrealtionship between pests and their natural enemies, pest life cycle, effects of control methods, how pests are affected by weather, and sound landscape management practices
• Disadvantages of pesticide use are pest resistance, secondary pests/pest resurgence, destruction of non-targets, environmental contamination
• Pesticides should only be used when the population has reached its injury level threshold
• Injury level is the pest population that causes an unacceptable amount of injury or damage
• Action threshold is when a particular control should be applied to keep the pest numbers from reaching the injury level
• Pesticides can be systemic or non-systemic
• Systemic insecticides can be absorbed through leaves and/or roots and moved within the plant, then the insect is killed when eating the plant
• Non-systemic insecticides kill the insect on contact
• Herbicides can be pre-emergent or post-emergenet
• Restricted use pesticides (RUP) are those that pose a potential hazard to the user or other persons in the environment
• Danger on a label indicates a highly toxic pesticide
• Warning on a label indicates a moderately toxic pesticide
• Caution on a label indicates a pesticide that is slightly toxic
• PPE can include rubber gloves, rubber boots, long-sleeved shirt, long pants, eye protection, respiration or dust mask
• When a chemical spill occurs contain the spill, avoid leaving the unattended, place the material used to clean up in a container, ise water and rags, open windows, keep people and pets away, notify a supervisor
• If swallowed, read label to see if induced vomiting is necessary
• If inhaled move victim to a place with fresh air and begin artificial respiration if not breathing
• If skin contact occurs dose with water and soap
• If eye contact occurs rinse eyes for 20 minutes
• There are granular and liquid products
• Application methods in turf include spreaders (drop and broadcast), sprayers (blanket and soft), and wick applicators
• Application methods in trees and shrubs include broad cast (granular), deep root (liquid), and foliar (liquid)