Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

What is Integrated Pest Management (IPM)?

UC IPM definition: an ecosystem-based process for solving pest problems while minimizing risks to people and the environment.

IPM Outline

IPM for Common North Bay Area Crops

Agricultural Crops List

• Apples
  • Fire Blight
  • Coddling Moth
  • European Canker
  • Apple Branch Canker Management
• Cane Berries
• Cole Crops
• Cucurbits
  • Cucumber Beetles
• Lettuce
• Olives
  • Olive Fruit Fly
    • Olive Fruit Fly Identification Handout by Cindy Kron
    • OFF Life Cycle
    • Olive Fruit Fly Management Handout
    • CAPCA Article Published 12-2014
    • Olive Fruit Fly Handout
    • Sources of Products for Olive Fruit Fly Control
    • Olipe Trap for Olive Fruit Fly 
    • Olive Fruit Fly Notes from 2013
  • Peacock Spot & Cercospora Foliar Diseases
  • Verticillium Wilt
  • Neofabraea vagabunda
• Peaches
  • Peach Leaf Curl
  • Peach Leaf Curl Life Cycle Diagram
  • Peach Leaf Curl Management
• Peppers
• Strawberries
• Tomatoes
  
  

IPM for Common Pests in Many Crops

Gopher Management

• UC IPM website for gophers
• Burrowing Rodents: developing a management plan for organic agriculture in California 
• Pocket Gophers: Biology, status, control, and directions 
• UCCE Video: how to trap pocket gophers in an orchard
• Review of current tools for gopher management 
• Gopher Control 
• Pocket Gophers and Moles 

Symphylans Management

• UC IPM website for symphylans

Other UC IPM Resources

• Efficacy Report 2022
• Weed Photo Gallery
• Weed List
• Fruit Tree Weed Control by Paul Vossen
• Recursos en español

IPM Diagrams

There are many ways to visualize the IPM framework: