If you don’t know what integrated pest management is, and you’re wondering why it’s useful, click on the link and keep on reading…
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What IS Integrated Pest Management anyway? And what does it do for you?
Posted on April 6, 2012 by rhallberg
See you next week at the IPM Symposium!
Posted on March 22, 2012 by rhallberg
Are you going to the IPM Symposium? If so, here’s some information that you’ll need.
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Biological Control Deconstructed, Part 3
Posted on November 8, 2011 by rhallberg
If biocontrol has so many advantages, why do some people shudder at the mention of a new introduction of an insect or parasitoid that may save a crop or forest tree from certain destruction? Simple. Any time that any living organism is set free in a foreign habitat, that organism presents its own risks.
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New Study on Bedbugs and Bacteria: What has it found?
Posted on May 20, 2011 by rhallberg
Last week, news about a new study on bed bugs flooded the media. The study seemed to dispute the theory that bed bugs, unlike other blood-sucking insects like mosquitoes and ticks, do not transmit disease. Based on results from a poverty-stricken community in Vancouver, British Columbia, the study concludes that in certain circumstances, bedbugs may have the potential to transmit bacteria. But what did the study really find?
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2010 in review
Posted on January 3, 2011 by rhallberg
According to the stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com, IPMSouth was a raging success in 2010.
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Welcome to IPM in the South
Posted on August 14, 2009 by rhallberg
Welcome to our blog on IPM in the South. IPM, or integrated pest management, is socially acceptable, environmentally responsible and economically practical crop protection. In the past few years, even urbanites have the opportunity to use or experience IPM. Many school maintenance personnel are lowering their use of broad-spectrum pesticides in schools. Some homeowners keep pests [...]
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