Integrated Pest Management IPM (5011)

What is IPM?

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is economical, effective as well as health and environmentally-sensitive.

IPM is a systematic and scientific approach to pest management.  Steps of IPM are:

• proper pest identification
• understand pest life cycles and conditions conducive
• monitor for pest presence, locations and abundance
• establish an action threshold (economic, aesthetic, tolerance)
  consideration and selection of multiple tactics for pest suppression
• evaluation of results

IPM practitioners consider economic, environmental, human health and social impacts of pest management activities in each situation.  Actions preventing pest establishment or entry are preferred over intervention.  When chemical tactics are included, the least-risky, most pest-specific products and formulations are selected.

IPM can be used in any environment where pests occur.  See below for more information.

For more information, please see this Pennsylvania Integrated Pest Management website.

Penn State Horticulture Department

For more information on this subject, Please visit the College of Agricultural Sciences Publications Web site.

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