PestXperience Show: Assesment Based Pest Management

02/11/2023 16:45 in Webinars

Dini Miller from the Department of Entomology at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va., encouraged PMPs to consider an assessment-based approach to pest management.

Miller first reviewed Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and how this phrase, so frequently used within urban pest management, initially came about.

IPM owes its origins to agriculture back in the 1970s following the wide-scale use of DDT on an extensive range of pests after World War II and the subsequent build-up of genetic resistance.

Basically, farmers inspected their crops for pests and assessed the economic value of their applying a pesticide to reduce problems to a manageable level. The term has been taken up by those in urban pest management where it is less appropriate – what is the effortless level of a pest such as a bed bug? Nil. People don’t want a single insect.

Miller proposes the term should be changed to Assessment-Based Pest Management (APM) – clients then know their problem will be assessed.

In this live show, Mr. Culley Christensen Owner/Operator of the Pestposse Academy will be joining Shofu Babalola Theophilus on the PestXperience show to talk on Assessment Based Pest Management.

Date: March 5th, 2023

Time: 7-8 PM

APM – Assessment-Based Pest Management

1) Inspection

a) Identification

b) Prevention

c) pest-vulnerable areas

2) Monitoring

a) Where are monitors optimally placed?

b) What are the monitors telling me?

3) Sanitation

a) Remember the survival triangle, Food, Water, and Harborage.

4) Physical/Mechanical Control

a) Habitat modification

i) Exclusion

b) Vacuuming

c) Trapping

d) Heat

e) Steam

5) Reduced Exposure Treatments

a) Baits

b) Reduced-risk insecticides (25B)

c) IGRs

6) Other Treatments

a) Dusts (Voids)

b) Fogging, baseboard and surface sprays, and targeted application of a liquid residual product to

known harborage areas.

c) Fumigation

7) Check your results and make adjustments where needed.

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