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Integrated Pest Management (IPM) |
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The roots of IPM
can be traced to the late 1880s when "ecology" was
identified as the foundation of scientific plant protection. The
advent of modern synthetic insecticides in the mid 1940s resulted in
a shift of focus to pesticide technology. Over the next 30 years,
recognition of the limitations, and often detrimental consequences
of over reliance on insecticides, led to the formulation of the
concepts of IPM. In 1972, President Nixon formally committed
the U.S. government to the development and promotion of IPM.
In reality, pesticide-based pest control still predominates U.S.
agriculture. However, biologically intensive control
technologies are increasingly displacing agrochemically intensive
technologies.
Photograph (above): Alfalfa weevil, Hypera postica (Gyllenhal) (Coleoptera:
Curculionidae). This destructive pest of alfalfa (lucerne) was accidentally
established in North America on three occasions. Alfalfa weevil has been
the target of classical biological control efforts since its discovery in North
America more than 90 years ago. These efforts have resulted in the
establishment of at least 9 exotic parasitoids and egg predators. This
once devastating pest is now largely controlled in the eastern U.S. by these
natural enemies. See Alfalfa IPM
to learn
more about this insect. |
Welcome to the University of Minnesota's electronic textbook of Integrated Pest Management featuring contributed chapters by internationally recognized experts.Our concept in creating this web page is to provide an electronic alternative or complement to printed textbooks for communicating information on integrated pest management (IPM). Our objectives are to provide: 1) a venue for easily maintaining and up-dating "state of the art" information from the world's leading experts on all aspects of IPM, 2) a resource economically deliverable anywhere in the world that can be freely downloaded and used by students, teachers, and IPM practitioners, 3) a forum for the international presentation of practical information and theory on IPM, 4) links to the vast and rapidly growing IPM resources available on the Internet including photographs and decision-support software. Since 1996, we’ve used this resource, supplemented with an electronic library of primary references and links to other IPM websites, as the textbook for our teaching of Insect Pest Managment at the University of Minnesota. More recently we have edited the hard copy IPM textbook, Integrated Pest Management: Concepts, Tactics, Strategies and Case Studies. The concept for a print textbook was that it and the online textbook could be complementary and cross-referenced. Thus, the print textbook is focused on theory, i.e., concepts and guiding principles, providing information of general application that will not become quickly dated, whereas information and specific examples that are more time-sensitive or situation-specific are communicated online. |
The EditorsEdward (Ted) B. Radcliffe
and
William (Bill) D. Hutchison, originators of this
site, are faculty members in the
Department of Entomology, College of
Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences. Spanish
translations of this website are by
Dr. Rafael Cancelado, an alumnus of the University of Minnesota and
self-employed crop consultant in Venezuela. We hope that you will find this site useful and interesting. We invite colleagues worldwide to contribute chapters to this textbook. See Instructions for Contributors on this website or e-mail us. |
Citation
To reference
chapters posted on this WWW site use the following format:
Author(s). Date (current revision). Chapter Title. In:
E. B. Radcliffe,W. D. Hutchison & R. E. Cancelado [eds.], Radcliffe's IPM
World Textbook, URL: http://ipmworld.umn.edu, University of
Minnesota, St. Paul, MN. |
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