UHDS IPM Coordinator: Chris Romeo (737-8648)

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UHDS IPM Coordinator Chris Romeo (737-8648)
Integrated Pest Management(IPM)
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Goals of Presentation

• To introduce MU personnel to integrated pest
  management principles
• Provide MU personnel with practical tools and
  resources to implement IPM in the work setting

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What is IPM?

• A planned program to prevent pests disease
  vectors from causing unacceptable damage or
  injury to operations, people, property, or
  environment.
• An environmentally sensitive approach to
  managing pest problems that takes advantage of
  all suitable pest management options

Pesticide use is NOT an option when non-chemical
control methods are available.
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What does IPM do?

• Prevents pest damage to MU facilities and
  property
• Prevents or minimizes environmental risks
• Minimizes pesticide use and avoids unnecessary
  pesticide exposure
• Minimizes health impact of pests

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Definition of Pest

• An insect, rodent, nematode, fungus, weed,
  terrestrial or aquatic plant, animal life, virus,
  bacteria, or other organism designated by rule as
  a pest.
• Does not include a virus, bacteria or other
  microorganism (on or in) living humans or other
  animals.
• As defined in (State Statute)

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IPM Goal

• To develop (specific tailored) pest management
  strategies to minimize potential adverse impacts
  on human health and to protect the environment

• Sanitation Emphasis
• Prevent Entry
• Harborage Reduction
• Monitor/Early Detection
• Non-Chemical Controls

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Steps to a Successful IPM Program

• Understand the Problem/Requirement Educate the
  Customer
• Analyze the Pest Problem Establish threshold
• Take Short-Term, Corrective Action
• Implement Long-Term, Preventive Action
• Monitor, Document, Evaluate Results
• Customer Feedback
• Residents, Guests, Faculty Staff

Pest problems are not all alike. Situational
pest management requires understanding specific
pest habits preferences.
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MU PLAN OF ATTACK

• Establish an IPM policy and implementation plan
• Develop initial staff IPM training
• Ensure daily, weekly, and monthly inspections
  are taking place

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Staff Responsibilities/Support

• Maintain good sanitation housekeeping standards
  to prevent pest access harborage
• Leave pest control and pest management to trained
  professionals
• Do not use pesticides or call in pesticide
  applicators
• Do not move sticky traps or other pest monitoring
  products
• Do not prop open windows or screens
• Remove trash, especially food routinely
• Keep areas dry
• Clean up standing water or wet items

Suggestions from Department of Agriculture
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MU Managers

• Train MU Staff
• Appoint personnel to conduct inspections and
  maintain Pest Sighting Log
• Ensure Building Inspections are conducted per
  required schedule
• Maintain Pest Sighting Log accessible to the MU
  Staff
• Follow-up on recommendations from IPM staff
• Post/Disseminate Notice of Pesticide
  Application
• Monitor problematic areas
• Trash Garbage Areas
• Dish Rooms
• Food Storage Areas
• Basements
• Loading Docks
• Under and behind appliances move as needed to
  inspect

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A Successful Pest Needs

• Food
• Water
• Shelter

Reduce pesticide use by reducing pest populations.
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Action Thresholds/Triggers

• Modify habitatsto make areas less hospitable,
  remove or reduce food and water and/or shelter
• Use non-chemical tactics when possible
• Structural (exclusion) Physical (sanitation)
• Mechanical (vacuum) Cultural (fertilizing)-
  weed species
• Identify specific acceptable levels of pest
  activity
• If pest population is too high or hazardous,
  chemical control may be needed
• Use least toxic product possible
• Follow label directions IT IS THE LAW
• Keep records to track successes and problems

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Premises Pest Exclusion
-- Applying Pest Management --

• Eliminate Harborage Conditions
• remove cardboard boxes recyclable material
• Eliminate Structural Defects
• caulk holes cracks in walls and around door
  frames
• Repair/Replace Torn or Missing Window Screens
• screens are gt 16-mesh per inch
• Keep storage areas, break rooms and loading docks
  clean
• Organize kitchens to maximize access and minimize
  harborage

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Stock Handling Practices
-- Applying Pest Management --

• Infested Foods Supplies
• Inspect incoming shipments received.
• Rotate stock
• reduces potential of old product infestations
• reduces spread of pests from infested products
• Remove unnecessary materials (harborage),
  particularly in storage areas

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4 steps of IPM

• Inspect
• Identify
• Take action (action thresholds)
• Evaluate

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Step 1 The Inspection

• Extendable mirror
• Flashlight
• Inspection form and clipboard
• Digital camera

4 essential inspection tools
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Routinely, look for

• Evidence of pests
• Unsanitary conditions
• Correctable Conditions
• Leaky pipes
• Unsealed cracks
• Spilled food
• Gaps under exterior doors
• Harborage (cardboard boxes)
• Others ?

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Step 2 Identification

• Need to know the specific pest/problem in order
  to determine the appropriate control method(s).
• If you kill it, bag it for identification by
  trained personnel if youre not sure what it is.

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Step 3 Taking Action
Wham!
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IPM Management Methods

• Short versus long term results
• Must change habitat for long term solution
• Eliminate food, water and/or shelter
• Correct structural problems that permit pest
  entrance.
• Screens
• Caulking
• Utility penetrations
• Foundation cracks

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Short Term Methods

• Light traps
• Sticky boards
• Vacuums
• Snap traps, etc
• Chemical
• pesticides
• baits
• liquid sprays
• powders

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When pesticide treatments become necessary

• Evaluate products for effectiveness and toxicity
• use methods that minimize unnecessary pesticide
  exposures, where possible
• Provide notification or posting, as required by
  label or law
• Allow only properly trained individuals to apply
  the (appropriate) product.

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Drawbacks of IPM

• More time and commitment
• Requires group effort
• Additional paperwork and communication
• Up-front costs to repair or improve facility
• Professional development and on-going training
  requirements for personnel

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Benefits of IPM

• Detects, identifies and manages potential pest
  problems
• Promotes clean, well-maintained facilities and
  landscapes
• Minimizes health and environmental risks
• Provides long-term solutions

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Pest Tolerance Levels/Action Thresholds
Lice Any
Bed Bugs Any
Mosquitoes Any
Cockroach Any
Fleas 5 at any one time
Fly (Common House Fly) gt 10/1000 square feet
Fruit Fly gt 10/1000 square feet
Wasp/Bee/Hornet gt 1
Ants gt 5 in food areas
Carpenter Ant gt 5 or sawdust present
Termite gt 1 or mud tubes present
Spiders gt 1 unless poisonous
Cereal Pests Any in food areas
Silverfish 10/trap/week
Mice Any
Rats Any
Squirrels Any
Raccoons Any
Opossums Any
Birds Any Nesting
Bats Any
Other Invading Insects Large numbers or near food storage
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Identifying Pest Problems
Cockroaches
Flies
Moths
Rodents
Beetles
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Cockroaches

• Detection
• Will scatter from dark room when lights are
  turned on.
• Oily, musty odor
• Droppings
• Small, dark, spherical (1mm length)
• Found in cracks crevices near food

• Prefer dark damp spaces
• Harbor near boxes pallets

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Roach Controls

• Small Roaches
• Sanitation
• Caulking Cracks Crevices
• Baiting (should be standardized insecticide
  treatment)
• Spraying Cracks Crevices
• Sticky Traps
• Large Roaches
• Drying Reduce Moisture
• Sealing Entry Points
• Housekeeping
• Baiting

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Moths Beetles

• Present as problems in dry-goods
• contaminate flour, oatmeal, rice, cereals,
  grains
• Storage Control
• cool, dry 50 humidity, 50o F
• Reporting
• contact trained personnel for pest ID
• Controls
• Stock rotation
• Ventilation

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Flies

• Garbage Refuse
• Containers covered when not in use
• Close dumpster doors
• Plastic liners in garbage cans
• Containers frequently cleaned sanitized
• Trash bags tightly sealed before placement in
  dumpster
• Clean spilled trash or garbage around dumpster
  ASAP.
• Sticky Fly Paper
• authorized in Non-food areas
• prohibited in food prep, service, dining areas
• Screens
• 1/16th mesh

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Rodents

• Rats
• Dig burrows around foundation
• Attracted to debris unsecured food (waste)
• Problems originate outside of building
• Mice
• Can enter building from outside problems
  originate indoors
• Nest w/in 15 feet of food source
• Spread through a structure along pipes, cables,
  ducts
• Raised flooring Lowered ceilings provide
  harborage

Rats can squeeze through 1/2-inch gaps Mice only
need ¼ inch
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Signs of Rodent Infestation

• Droppings cigar-shaped
• fresh shiny black
• old pale brown brittle
• Gnawing Marks scalloped edges
• box corners, electrical wiring, wood
• Rub Marks unobstructed runways
• grease marks along pipes walls
• Tracks
• easily seen on dusty surfaces
• common near vertical surfaces

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Rodent Controls

• Rats
• Trash Garbage recycle disposal
• Eliminate debris
• Eliminate building access
• Tracking powder
• Trapping

• Mice
• Seal entry points
• Cleaning Housekeeping
• Trapping

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What we do after Catching a Rat

• Don PPE (gloves)
• In some cases, it might be better to use a
  Grabber instead of hands though.
• We dont reuse wood-traps, toss animal and trap
  in trash bag together

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Killed Rodents Go Where?

• After depositing the rodent in the trashbag, soak
  him in pre-mixed Hepistat 256
• Tie knot in end of bag and toss entire package
  into dumpster/compactor

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Cleanup After the Kill

• Spray the spot the rodent was trapped with
  Hepistat 256 and wipe dry AFTER 10 minute dwell
• Spray all tools/implements.
• Clean and reload trap (if re-usable).
• Toss out gloves