What is IPM?
Least-toxic Integrated Pest Management (IPM) emphasizes non-chemical means of preventing and reducing pest problems. These practices can drastically reduce or eliminate the use of chemical pesticides while reducing pest problems in schools. IPM can bring other benefits as well, including better energy efficiency, structural maintenance/building repairs, better indoor air quality, and cost savings. Schools around the country are finding that effective pest control is possible without the use of toxic pesticides and that better practices can save money in the long run.
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is the practice of using improved sanitation, exclusion, cultural controls, habitat manipulation, trapping, and targeted pesticide application to control or reduce pest problems. In other words, we use knowledge and common sense to prevent pests, not just pesticides.
IPM stands for Integrated Pest Management. The definitions and principles of IPM are varied, but can be generalized as “the combining of appropriate pest control tactics into a single plan (strategy) to reduce pests and their damage to an acceptable level”. There are five common steps involved in practicing IPM: • Inspection • Pest Identification • The establishment of pest tolerance levels • Implementation of an effective control strategy • Evaluation of effectiveness An effective control strategy involves much more that an aggresive application of pesticides. It would also include such things as monitoring, sanitation and exclusion. Many pests can be controlled by simply caulking open cracks and filling in holes around pipes, etc. Sanitation is extremely important. Any pest control strategy that does not include sanitation will be ineffective. In multi-housing communities, a workable control strategy would also include any attached units and storage areas. IPM is the safest, most eff
IPM is an application for measuring and monitoring network performance statistics such as network latency, jitter, availability, packet loss, and errors. You can view these statistics in real time or have IPM store them in its database for historical analysis. You can also use IPM to establish network baselines and monitor thresholds.
