APES in a Box: Integrated Pest Management and Biological Pest Control Integrated Pest Management is a holistic control to pest

management involving biological control, cultivation techniques, and synthetic pesticides. - Pests and crops are considered part of an ecological system. The Philosophy of IPM Goal: is to decrease the pest population to an economically acceptable level. IPM Strategies - Crop Rotation: Which disrupts the pest populations - IPM Strategies: Creation of habitat for predators of pest population - Using Pest Resistant crop varieties. - Intercropping makes the spread of pests more difficult. - Altering planting times to disrupt pest life cycles. - Biological Pest Control - Microorganisms, plants, and animals have also been used for pest control. Advantages of BPM -Allows farmers and landowners the opportunity to become educated. - Potential for use with organic agriculture - Disadvantages of BPM - Potential for non-target species to be impacted by the introduced control species. - BPM can be costly to implement and control. Initial cost of IPM programs may be higher than conventional pesticide spraying.

Notes on Michael Pollan Videos Author of In Defense of Food Monocultures involve using different harmful stuff such as pesticides, fertilizers, and machinery.

A negative effect on Monoculture would be that it is very vulnerable to diseases and it may exhaust the soil. The world and the Monocultures in the U.S. are disrupting the lives of bees, causing them to be vulnerable to diseases and pesticides. The Colony Collapse of bees is one of the major signs that our food system is unsustainable. In order to fix this problem we need to stop exposing things bees to Monoculture.