February is IPM Month!

#WhatIsIPM?

IPM is any approach to pest control or management that uses the least toxic, effective method to solve pest problems, including using natural predators to manage pests, hand-pulling weeds, and using traps or baits to address pest issues. It’s about understanding the options, and keeping current with new ones as they are developed.

Check out these relevant topic resources:

• Integrated Pest Management (and in Spanish)

• Backyard Garden IPM (in Spanish)

• IPM Basics: Getting Rid of Mold (in Spanish)

• IPM Basics: Ant Management (in Spanish)

• IPM Basics: Wasp IPM (in Spanish)

• IPM for Endangered Species Protection: PRESCRIBE database & mobile app

• DPR Grants Supporting IPM Research, Implementation, and Adoption

• IPM Tips for Seasonal Outdoor Cockroaches

• Preventing Termites (ca.gov) (in Spanish)

• Ant IPM Managing Ants Inside Schools (ca.gov) (in Spanish)

Carbon Monoxide Devices for Managing Borrowing Rodents at Schools (in Spanish