integrated pest management

American  

noun

Agriculture.

1. an ecological approach to pest management that combines understanding the causes of pest outbreaks, manipulating the crop ecosystem for pest control, and monitoring pest populations and their life cycles to determine if and when the use of pesticides is indicated. IPM

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Example Sentences

A suite of agricultural techniques called integrated pest management combines biological, chemical and mechanical controls to sustainably manage pests.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024

“What we’ve learned through integrated pest management is that the timing of one or staggering of different approaches together yields results for the growers,” said Aubuchon.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2024

Another important step is using integrated pest management, a land management approach that minimizes the use of chemical pesticides.

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2022

They'll be encouraged instead to use low-impact methods such as integrated pest management, which uses pheromones to disrupt pest mating cycles, or adopts mechanical control, such as trapping or weeding.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2021

Alternative and sustainable practices in farming and land use include organic agriculture, integrated pest management and biological control.

From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018