INTRODUCTION TO VECTOR AND PEST MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION TO VECTOR AND PEST MANAGEMENT

WHAT IS A PEST ???

• A pest is an animal which is detrimental to humans or human concerns.  It is a loosely defined term, often overlapping with the related terms vermin, weeds, parasites and pathogens.

TYPES OF PEST ??? 

Welcome Pest.

•  Bees, flies and butterflies : carry pollen from plant to plant and help to pollinate flowers and crops. 

• Ladybirds : eat caterpillars and aphides (greenflies and black flies) that kill plants. 

•  Moth ; moth caterpillars make silk used to make clothes. 

•  Dung beetles : beetles and flies clean up animal droppings and the rotting bodies of dead animals. 

•  Honey bee : provide honey to eat and beeswax to polish furniture. 

Bee.

Unwelcome pest.

 Mosquitoes : spread diseases (e.g. malaria, dengue fever, JE, etc)

 Bees, wasps and hornets : painful sting – dangerous to some people.

Termites and woodworms ; damage furniture and buildings.

 Colorado beetles : eat and ruin potato crops.

Locusts : gather in huge groups can eat all plants. 

 Cockroaches : infest food stores and spread germs. 

 Rodents : transmit diseases and destroy materials

Bees, wasps and hornets : painful sting – dangerous to some people.

 Termites and woodworms : damage furniture and buildings. 

Colorado beetles : eat and ruin potato crops.

 Locusts : gather in huge groups can eat all plants. 

 Cockroaches : infest food stores and spread germs.

 Rodents : transmit diseases and destroy materials.

WHAT IS VECTOR ?

 Vector shall mean any insect or arthropod, rodent, or other animal which capable causing discomfort, injury or capable of harboring or transmitting the causative agents of disease to humans or domestic animals. Examples of vector are such as, mosquitoes, cockroaches, flies, fleas and ticks are vectors of disease.

Mosquitoes.

PEST AND VECTOR CONTROL .

• Identify
• Reduce
• Eliminate

WHAT IS INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT ( IPM ) ?

Integrated Pest Management is a process involving common sense and sound solutions for treating and controlling pests. Three basic steps:

•  1) inspection 
•  2) identification 
•  3) treatment. 

Optimum combination of control methods including :

Physical control - fly screens or trapping.

Cultural control - improving ventilation, hygiene and sanitation.

Biological control - parasites or predators to eradicate a particular pest.

Chemical control - appropriate pesticide

WHY USE INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT ?

•  Physical control - fly screens or trapping.
•  Cultural control - improving ventilation, hygiene and sanitation.
•  Biological control - parasites or predators to eradicate a particular pest.
•  Chemical control - appropriate pesticide

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