Integrated Pest Management
+Integrated Pest Management
close"IPM serves as an umbrella to provide an effective, all encompassing, low risk approach to protect resources and people from pests " -IPM Roadmap, USDA, 2004
"Schools, golf courses, dairies, and poultry operations are just a few examples of areas which use IPM today." -"What Integrated Pest Management means for Today's Beekeeper", Michael Hood, Clemson University
"Schools, golf courses, dairies, and poultry operations are just a few examples of areas which use IPM today." -"What Integrated Pest Management means for Today's Beekeeper", Michael Hood, Clemson University
Organic Food Movement
+Organic Food Movement
close"The organic movement had sprung directly from the customers’ demand as they became sick of the health hazards associated with the use of chemicals in food and household products."
-"History of the Organics Movement", The Organics Institute
-"History of the Organics Movement", The Organics Institute
Genetically Modified Organisms
+Genetically Modified Organisms
close Benefits:
"Bt cotton in China drastically reduced the spraying of synthetic chemicals, increased the abundance of beneficial organisms and decreased populations of insects that damage the crop ." -Kathage J., Qaim M., PNAS, May 2012
Limitations:
"One limitation of using any insecticide, whether it is organic, synthetic, or genetically engineered, is that insects can evolve resistance to it." -Tabashnik, B. E.,1994 Entomol. 39: 47–79
"Bt cotton in China drastically reduced the spraying of synthetic chemicals, increased the abundance of beneficial organisms and decreased populations of insects that damage the crop ." -Kathage J., Qaim M., PNAS, May 2012
Limitations:
"One limitation of using any insecticide, whether it is organic, synthetic, or genetically engineered, is that insects can evolve resistance to it." -Tabashnik, B. E.,1994 Entomol. 39: 47–79
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
"A truly extraordinary variety of alternatives to the chemical control of insects is available...they are biological solutions , based on understanding of living organisms they seek to control, and of the whole fabric of life to which these organisms belong... use the drive of an insect's life forces to destroy it"
- "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson page 178,179
- "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson page 178,179
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Rachel Carson's plea to use chemical pesticides with caution has been answered with the emergence of innovative methods to manage pests.
"IPM serves as an umbrella to provide an effective, all encompassing, low risk approach to protect resources and people from pests."
- IPM Roadmap, USDA, 2004 |
"Schools, golf courses, dairies, and poultry operations are just a few examples of areas which use IPM today."
-"What Integrated Pest Management means for Today's Beekeeper", Michael Hood, Clemson University
-"What Integrated Pest Management means for Today's Beekeeper", Michael Hood, Clemson University