Title: Apply principles of integrated pest management.
Course: Turfgrass Management, Advanced (18054-IV) > Section: Managing Natural and Synthetic Turfgrass Areas

Application should include

- identifying pests, their hosts, and beneficial organisms (i.e., biological control)
- establishing scouting and monitoring guidelines for each pest species
- establishing an action threshold for the pest(s), timing of the introduction of management practices
- alternative management practices
- evaluating and implementing cultural practices and control tactics.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What are the relationships among the different facets of integrated pest management?
- How do alternative management practices influence conventional management practices?
- How does monitoring reduce the need for chemical control?
- Why is it important to select tactics that are effective, economical, and have least impact on non-target species and the environment?
- Why is it important to select methods of control that will affect beneficial organisms as little as possible while suppressing the pest(s)?
- What are the differences among action threshold, economic threshold, and threshold?