The integrated pest management (IPM) involves regular monitoring for determining when pest management treatments are required. It utilises physical, biological, mechanical, cultural, and educational tactics for removing the pests. As a rule, the least-toxic pest control methods are used applied as a last resort for eradicating the pests. The complete elimination of a pest is usually expensive and is not possible in some cases. The various types of damage inflicted by the pests include economic, medical, and aesthetic damages. Also, one needs to think, how much damage is tolerable or whether a creature needs to be regarded as pest or not.
There are various steps for achieving Integrated pest management. First one is the identification of pest. In case you want to kill a pest, then you need to identify it, however if you want to use least-toxic pest control then you require to comprehend the role played by pests in relation to its environment. It is referred to as an ecosystem perspective and it will give you more pest control alternatives. Secondly, you need to manipulate the Pest’s Ecosystem Components like limited access to food, limited access to shelter, Limiting energy by moving the food source far from the habitat of pest, encourage natural enemies, and reducing the carrying capacity of a site and increasing the carrying capacity of the natural enemies of the pest.
You need to utilize the Natural Pest Controls as effective as possible. It includes the proper application of Climate & Weather, Pathogens, Food & Habitat, Predators and Parasitoids. You also need to select a treatment Strategy as an overall approach to a problem and choose a Tactic as a specific action or range of actions that follows the strategy. Some of the popular tactics include
IPM Program Components Monitoring, Evaluation and Program Redesign and Determining Injury Levels Applying Strategies and Tactics.
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