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Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Plant Health Care (PHC) are strategies
for managing ornamental plants in landscapes and nurseries in ways that
reduce the potential for pest and disease problems. When problems do occur,
the practitioner implementing an IPM/PHC approach follows a sequence of
steps in the management of the pest or disease that is designed to minimize
impacts on the environment. Below are some of the tools that a practitioner
would use in implementing an IPM/PHC program.
Additional information and articles can be found at the Landscape
Nursery and Urban Forestry web site.
Selected IPM Articles:
Bacillus
thuringiensis (B.t.) 
Beneficial Nematodes
Bio-Rational Pesticides
Current
Growing Degree Day Accummulations (UMassGreenInfo.org - Landscape
Message)
Fundamentals of An Insect and Mite
IPM Program
Horticultural Oils
Managing Insects Using Superior or
Horticultural Oil
Monitoring: Growing Degree Days
and Plant Phenology
Monitoring and Management
Checklists
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