Integrated Pest Management

Uses information on pest biology, environmental data, and technology to manage pest damage in a way that identifies and minimizes both economic costs and risks to people, property, and the environment

From food and farming to homes and communities, Integrated Pest Management or (IPM) encompasses many settings, disciplines, and people, but this fact is not always known or understood.

This is despite the fact that IPM has been federally articulated and funded for over 50 years in the United States.

This initiative, called This is IPM, demonstrates how real-world challenges are solved by real-life people implementing IPM.

It unravels the IPM network, explains the process of IPM, explores pests like insects, diseases, and weeds, and shares resources. Most importantly, “This is IPM” tells the story of how science, practice, and people come together to protect crops, farms, families, forests, homes, businesses, parks, schools, and more

IPM is practiced

• With Boots on the ground, in the lab, and in between
• In Production Agriculture
• In Residential, Structural, and Public Areas
• And In Natural Resources such as Forests and Water Resources

IPM is…

• A process
• Reflexive
• Always Adapting
• Prevention, Avoidance, Monitoring, and Suppression
• Dynamic
• A science
• A community

“Highlighting the people and the process of Integrated Pest Management”

This is IPM