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What is Integrated Pest Management (IPM)?
Components of Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
5 Steps to Implementing IPM
The 10 Commandments of IPM
What is Integrated Pest Management (IPM)?
Managing properly to eliminate pest's pesticides from the environment to
balance costs, benefits, public health and environmental quality - that's the
goal of the IPM approach.
IPM is structured around thorough inspections, monitoring, structural modifications
and proper sanitation, and the use of different materials to make the environment
less hospitable to insects and other pests. It does as a last resort include
the use of pesticides, to eliminate an infestation - routine baseboard spraying
is NEVER part of our IPM program. In every situation, a non-pesticide
approach is preferred on a routine basis.
Communication and cooperation with
us are critical to successful IPM programs,
whether for homes or businesses.
Components of Integrated Pest Management
(IPM)
First Things First: Inspection and
Monitoring
Thorough inspections and monitoring devices
help determine where pests can be found and
where they may have access into the building.
Monitoring also shows a change in the pest
population, so we can act quickly to reduce
or eliminate the population before it
becomes a problem.
Taking Care of Business: Structural
Modifications and Sanitation
Holes and cracks where pests can enter or sanitation issues that can
be virtual "food wagons" for pests must be repaired before a permanent
solution to a pest problem can be achieved. Cleaning drains, applying caulk,
installing lights, screens and many others structurally related your staff
or we could handle jobs.
Other Methods: Mechanical & Chemical
Measures
The materials used to reduce or eliminate pest
population’s range from the non chemical
(like traps), to growth regulators and baits,
to a very last choice of registered residuals
pesticides. Many of the chemicals used are
designed specifically to interact with insect
physiology, not humans. You'll find that all
the tools available in a true IPM program help
make it a reduced pesticide approach.
Let's Talk It Out: Communication
and Re-evaluation
We will need to maintain very clear lines of communication so that our
clients can report any pest occurrences; and technicians and other pest control
personnel can review findings, account status and recommendations with the
client on a regular basis.
Re-evaluation of the IPM program is also necessary
from time to time because different pest populations
can change with the changing environment (indoors
or outdoors) in which they live.
REMEMBER: Pests will never
be eliminated from the outdoor environment.
Seasonality, weather, building structure or
a host of other variables can create conditions
conducive to an infestation by some kind of
pest.
For more information on Integrated Pest Management
(IPM) please visit http://www.whatisipm.org |
