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Main topics of this course are: Biocontrol Approaches, Decision Making, Disadvantages of Cultural Controls, EBPM Status, Enforced Crop Production Rules, Hybrid Sterility, IPM Evolution Continued, Regulatory Tactics, Resistance Categories. Key points of this lecture slides are: Hybrid Sterility, Microbially, Genetic Manipulation, Cytoplasmic Incompatibility, Wolbachia in Lower Flies, Physical and Mechanical Tactics, Environmental Modifications, Exclusion in Structures, Arthropods, Physical Exclus
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Example: Wolbachia in lower flies
Environmental Modifications in
Structures
Environmental Modification
Categories
Flame weeders
Organic mulches were recently living tissue
Inorganic mulches were never living. Gravel, rock, plastic, landscape fabric, etc.
Birds in structures are often
managed via exclusion
Slugs won’t cross copper
Netting and screens are often used as an insect barrier
Floating row covers on cabbage protecting against cabbage butterflies
Trap Examples -- Click on picture
for more detail
Pathogen trap for use in greenhouses or irrigation water
Numerous live traps for vertebrates can be found here
Slug trap
Removing pests by hand or using mechanical devices to trap, kill, or keep them out
Problems with Mechanical Control
Summary of Non-Chemical
Methods
Method
Control Effectiveness Control Type^
Monitoring Effectiveness
Exclusion High Preventative None
Habitat & Behav. Mod
High Preventative & Curative
None
Physical Control
Moderate Curative Moderate
Mechanical Control Low^ Curative^ High
