IPM tools • Monitor, monitor, monitor & predict • Traps using pheromones & pesticides• Biological control with parasites or predators• Microbes like fungus, bacteria, virus• Plant resistance to pests by leaf hairs, spines,
plant chemicals, tough tissue, bad taste• Plant extracts like neem
Monitor leaf roller moth populations with pheromone traps
Checking the pheromone trap
Yellow sticky trap monitors for aphids in cabbage
Hedgerow flowers planted to encourage parasites that eat pests
Tomato fruitworm larva eats tomato
Parasitic wasp stings tomato fruitworm larva
Intercrop French beans & insect-repellant cilantro
Crop rotation reduces disease innoculum: corn to beans
Prune out (sanitation) diseased powdery mildew branches