Apes in a Box: Integrated Pest Management & Biological Pest Control

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Integrated Pest Management
- A holistic to pest management, to reduce pest populations to a economic level.
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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
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Disadvantages of IPM 
-Successful, farmers to be well educated 
-IPM vary
- Initial costs
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Philosophy of IPM
- Pest & crop based as ecological system
- Reducing pest population to an acceptable level.
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Advantages of IPM
- Reduction of environmental and healt problems
- Requires education for farmers and landowners
-costly, not effective as synthetic pesticides
- Pest population
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Biological pest control
- Predator species to control pests
-Microorganims,plants, and animals have circumstances to help control pests
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Disadvantages
-Potential for non-target
-Disruption of native food chains
-Unwanted proliferation
- Completed eradication 
-costly
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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
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Advantages of BPM
-Control of pests without doing any harm while having a potential use with organic agriculture.
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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