Apes in a Box: Integrated Pest Management & Biological Pest Control
Integrated Pest Management - A holistic to pest management, to reduce pest populations to a economic level.
IPM strategies - Crop rotation -Creation of habitat -usage of pest resistant -Intercropping makes pests more difficult -Altering planting time to disrupt pest life cycles - Using vacuums to remove pests, or spraying plants with hot water to destroy larvae
Disadvantages of IPM -Successful, farmers to be well educated -IPM vary - Initial costs
Philosophy of IPM - Pest & crop based as ecological system - Reducing pest population to an acceptable level.
Advantages of IPM - Reduction of environmental and healt problems - Requires education for farmers and landowners -costly, not effective as synthetic pesticides - Pest population
Biological pest control - Predator species to control pests -Microorganims,plants, and animals have circumstances to help control pests
Disadvantages -Potential for non-target -Disruption of native food chains -Unwanted proliferation - Completed eradication -costly
Successful - Parasitic nematodes to control lawn and garden pests - Use of flea beetles to control leaf spurge -Bats control mosquitos -Pheronmones to trap pests -Sterilization and realease
Advantages of BPM -Control of pests without doing any harm while having a potential use with organic agriculture.
Failures -Cane toads in Australia - Lady bugs used to control aphids -cats to control rodent population, led to over population cats and destroyed native birds