{"id":63190,"date":"2022-07-31T12:19:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T17:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63190"},"modified":"2022-07-31T12:19:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T17:19:03","slug":"summertime-and-the-livin-is-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63190","title":{"rendered":"*Summertime, and the livin\u2019 is easy\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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*Summertime, and the livin\u2019 is easy\u2026<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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If you listen closely you can hear the beasties in your garden just a-singin\u2019 that tune. And who can blame them? Warm temperatures and lush green gardens? They enjoy them as much as we do. But sometimes they can be enjoying our landscape a little too much. So now what do you do?<\/p>\n

Visit the garden chemicals section at your local big box store? Reach for your favorite \u201cnatural\u201d or DIY concoction? Ask your neighbor?<\/p>\n

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Hmmm, maybe not.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

What is the best way to deal with the problem? Three letters answer that question. <\/strong>IPM.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Scoutcat logo courtesy of C. Ware, copyright 2000<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

What is IPM? Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is the management approach you should use to solve pest problems. It can manage all sorts of pests with minimal risks to people, pets, and the environment. IPM\u2019s emphasis is on the management of problems rather than eradication. It focuses on long-term prevention of pests or their damage by managing the ecosystem.<\/p>\n

IPM is a five step process: 1) correct pest ID, 2) monitoring and assessing pest numbers and damage, 3) pest ID guidelines for when management action is needed, 4) preventing pest problems, and 5) determining correct control measures. Let\u2019s take a look at each one.<\/p>\n

#1.\u00a0Pest ID<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Correct ID of the problem-causing critter is the most important aspect of IPM. If you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re dealing with, how can you devise an effective control strategy, if indeed one is needed?<\/p>\n

So what is a pest? Pests are organisms which damage or interfere with desirable plants or damage structures. Pests also include organisms that can impact human or animal health. Pests may transmit disease or may be just a nuisance. A pest can be a plant (weed), vertebrate (bird, rodent, or other mammal), invertebrate (insect, tick, mite, or snail), nematode, or a pathogen (bacteria, virus, or fungus).<\/p>\n

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*Summertime, and the livin\u2019 is easy\u2026 If you listen closely you can hear the beasties in your garden just a-singin\u2019 that tune. And who can blame them? Warm temperatures and lush green gardens? They enjoy them as much as we do. But sometimes they can be enjoying our landscape a little too much. So now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[33048,31301,346,2494],"class_list":["post-63190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-garden-pests","tag-garden-professors","tag-gardening","tag-pests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63191,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63190\/revisions\/63191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}