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Integrated Pest Management

Integrated Pest Management. Green Pest Management. Healthy Environment – Healthy Students. We want: A SAFE ENVIRONMENT! Safe from: Pest organisms Arthropod vectored diseases Inappropriate chemical pesticide use. Bugs. No Bad Bugs ?.

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Integrated Pest Management

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  1. Integrated Pest Management Green Pest Management Healthy Environment – Healthy Students

  2. We want: A SAFE ENVIRONMENT! Safe from: • Pest organisms • Arthropod vectored diseases • Inappropriate chemical pesticide use

  3. Bugs

  4. No Bad Bugs ? • Less than 5% of all insect species are ever considered pests

  5. Do Bugs Pester you?

  6. What is IPM? • IPM focuses on reducing pest conducive conditions and ecologically sound remedial action • IPM is people oriented and the most effective managementstrategy.

  7. IPM Tactics Pesticides Exclusion Sanitation and habitat modification Education and communication

  8. Prevention • Educate community • Inform people about IPM • Good sanitation • Don’t feed pests • Exclusion and pest-proofing • Don’t let pests in • Modify the habitat • Don’t give them a place to live Pests want the same things we want:Food Water Shelter

  9. Initial Inspection of “Skool High”

  10. Relationships Communication The whole community needs to be involved

  11. Pest Proofing Problems If you were a bug this would be an open door

  12. Sanitation Corner crud can feed cockroaches and ants for weeks

  13. Evidence of Clutter Bugs Pests have lots of places to hide

  14. Food Storage Cockroaches live in and feed on cardboard boxes

  15. Waste Management Good waste management practices are essential

  16. Monitoring and Identification Find where and what organisms are sharing your space.

  17. Pest Sighting Logs The community to reports sightings.

  18. Education Share information of the biology and ecology of living organisms in our environment.

  19. Maintenance Preventative maintenance orders take priority. If we can loose Jerry in the bushes, when else is in there?

  20. Self Assess Have independent assessments done and get recognition for being a green school or child care facility.

  21. Children are the most vulnerable members of society, they are the future. We are the custodians of their world

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