You are here.Philadelphia School & Community IPM Partnership
For More Info Contact:
Cathy Nardozzo
314 Ag Administration Bldg.
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-0604
E-mail: cfn2@psu.edu
Welcome to PA IPM!
- Agricultural IPM
- Community IPM
- Green Industry
- Parks & Forest IPM
- Pesticides & Alternatives IPM
- Public Health IPM
- Christmas Tree Scouting
- Field Crop Insect Prediction Maps
- Greenhouse IPM Manual with an Emphasis on Biocontrols
- New Book Aims to Protect Children From Pesticides
- PA Biosecurity & Invasive Species Consortium site
- PA School IPM Manual
- School IPM Curriculum
- Pesticide Impregnated Clothing (e.g. "Buzz Off")
Penn State Entomology Department
What is IPM?
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is economical, effective as well as health and environmentally-sensitive.
IPM is a systematic and scientific approach to pest management. Steps of IPM are:
- proper pest identification
- understand pest life cycles and conditions conducive
- monitor for pest presence, locations and abundance
- establish an action threshold (economic, aesthetic, tolerance)
consideration and selection of multiple tactics for pest suppression - evaluation of results
IPM practitioners consider economic, environmental, human health and social impacts of pest management activities in each situation. Actions preventing pest establishment or entry are preferred over intervention. When chemical tactics are included, the least-risky, most pest-specific products and formulations are selected.
IPM can be used in any environment where pests occur. See below for more information.
- Bed Bugs Expert to Speak in Philadelphia - October 2009
Bed bugs are becoming an emerging public health issue after years of relative invisibility. These nocturnal bloodsuckers do not discriminate and will infest any environment with beds and sleeping people. Bed bugs cannot fly and either walk or hitchhike to new location on used mattresses, furniture, clothing, backpacks or suitcases.
- Prevent Tomato Late Blight Next Growing Season - October 2009
Across the northeast, home gardeners expecting the usual bumper crop of tomatoes were dismayed to find their plants affected by late blight, the same fungus that caused Ireland’s potato famine in the 19th century.