- Using Ipm at your home
Home gardens and landscaping have many opportunities to minimize serious pest problems. A Method of using Ipm in your garden or landscaping is picking a careful selection of your plants. You want to select plants that are well adapted to the environment, resistant to pests, and you wants plants that have adopted cultural practices such as, biological, mechanical, and physical controls. To stay away form harmful herbicides and pesticides at your home you can use more natural or less harmful remedies such as using insecticidal soaps, horticulture oils, microbial and botanical s. Common garden pest include insects,mites,mollusks,nematodes, pathogens, vertebrates, and weeds. Many of theses groups are related to species that are beneficial and desirable for your garden. The majority of organisms in landscaping are desirable components of the ecosystem. Its important not to kill off the beneficial insects and using Ipm can help minimize the use of pesticides and herbicides that kill these important insects.
Ladhari, Afef, et al. "Effect of the extracts of the spider flower, Cleome arabica, on feeding and survival of larvae of the cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis." Journal of Insect Science 13 (2013). Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources. Web. 16 May 2014.
-Using plant extracts for Integrated pest management
Pesticides are important for a good stable crop production but the problem with pesticides is many of them are extremely toxic and those toxins can last in the environment for a long time. In recent years people have been using plant extracts to help with the annoying pests that can destroy our crops. Plants have evolved many chemical defense mechanisms against insects. As a result of interactions with insects, plants have synthesize a huge range of different chemical compounds. Theses compounds are called secondary metabolites and they contain alkaloids, polyphenols, terpenoids,steroids,essential oils, lignans, surgars, and fatty acids. Theses protect the plant from pest and These plant extracts can be used effectively in integrated pest management. Many of the plant extracts have shown to be fatal to the insects at certain doses. Using these plant extracts can help stop the use of hardcore pesticides that can stay in the environment for many years.
"EPA funds integrated pest management projects." Feedstuffs 13 Jan. 2014: 6. Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources. Web. 16 May 2014.
-The Environmental protection agency funds IPM projects
The EPA is going to fund IPM programs for farmers to help reduce the risk of dangerous pesticides to help save the bees.Many of the pesticides farmers use are extremely harmful to important pollinators. The initiatives of the EPA funding IPM is to encourage others to adopt promising technologies and practices across the nation to reduce pesticide risks while maximizing crop production and protecting public health. IPM relies on environmentally friendly practices to prevent pest from becoming a problem. These practices involve monitoring and identifying pests and taking preventive and action before pesticides are used. In the end pesticides are used if they absolutely have to. I believe that the EPA funding IPM will cause more farmers to change over to IPM strategies and overall it will help cut the use of harmful pesticides.
Feldman, Jay, and Laura Hepting. "Ending Toxic Dependency: The State of Integrated Pest Management (IPM)." Washington, DC: Beyond Pesticides, 2007. Rpt. in Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Online Collection. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources. Web. 19 May 2014.
- Ipm and parks
Only 18% of the states adopted the idea of using IPM programs in state parks. This is crazy because IPM has been proven to work great and at low costs. State parks and federal parks have lots of land and people are always there enjoying nature. Using pesticides and herbicides can be very dangerous to people in these areas.Also parks have lots of land and if they all used pesticides there would be lots of harm to the environment. Integrated pest management would be cheaper and a much more healthy way to go for parks. Beneficial insects and other native plants would thrive without pesticides in parks. Overall we need to focus on using less toxic chemicals to control pest and Ipm programs are great for this.
"Pesticide-free pest control : nontoxic strategies for keeping bugs and rodents at bay." Prevention Aug. 2005: 137. Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources. Web. 20 May 2014. - Home pesticide use
Most people think of pesticides being used mostly at large farms.Using pesticides at Home and gardens has became the second largest pesticides consumer using up to 163 million pounds witch is 30 million more than business and government combined. Many of the pesticides used for homes can be toxic to kids and pets as well. The small rat poison pellets make the rats insides bleed tell they die. If a little kid was to pick that rat pellet up and eat it the same thing could potentially happen. Pesticides are extremely dangerous and there is always a alternative. Rat traps are pretty effective and your kids or animals with not die from theses. Before purchasing pesticides you should research safe alternatives and try theses to keep your home safe.
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