Principles Of Integrated Pest Management
Integrated
Pest Management begins with a better knowledge of the pest's life
cycles. With this knowledge you can develop a scientific control
system designed to meet your specific requirements.
To make this control system function properly, you must understand
the important criteria:
- Break/interrupt the pests life cycle,
(this is accomplished by preventing the newly hatched insects from
reaching maturity and laying more eggs)
- Constant vigil for pests
and their identification
- Understanding the life cycle of the
pests and
- Recognize that high temperatures (80° - 85 °
and above) and, higher barometric pressure will shorten the life
cycle of the pests. Refer to data on each insect for examples of variable life cycles and/or temperature variations.
Fulex Smokes provide a broad spectrum of control for many insects.
A few of the most common are listed in the Insects Controlled pages.