10 Actions: Intergalactic Integrated Pest Management

What is Intergrated Pest Management? It is s process that uses all necessary techniques to suppress pests effectively, economically and in an environmentally sound manner. IPM involves planning and managing ecosystems to prevent organisms from becoming pests.
This is very useful on other planets when colonizing the. It is good to know local ecosystems to control or prevent native species to become pests towards your crops. 
== Lore ==
The PaleoNerds had to use IPM when colonising the planet IMP 10 which was full of possible pest insectoids. The were low on money so they had to find an economiclly benificial way of detering pests because the planet was large and resorces were streched thin. Because of the thin use they had to make sure it was effective. To avoid ruining the local ecosytems with the insecticides they made sure to keep opperations enviornmentally friendly.
Integrated Pest Management is a huge part of collonizing planets.
== 10 Actions ==
1) Optimize crops for local conditions (The soil conditions and temperature have to be good to make sure the plants are healthy enough to resist insects)
2) Forecasting - learning from the past to improve the future!
3) Identifying and monitor - Must identify pests correctly (dont wanna kill none pests, monitor insect behaviour to tell if they eating ur crops)
4) Economic threshold - (Just dont sweat it with the small stuff lol the PaleoNerds are on a budget)
5) Cultural control and sanitation - Must use the crop rotator 3000 and intercropping with local plants to make the pests leave ur plants alone and planting trap crops like mutant venus fly traps and mega pichers.
6) Biological control - introduce predators, parasitoids and bacteria to help protect the crop
7) Chemical control - A nessisary tool in pest control on other planets, but less is better for the local enviornments and food safty
8) Record keeping - its hard to keep it all in ur head, thats why all the pest records are stored on data sheets in the mega farms database library rooms.
9) Evaluation of population levels and effectiveness of control measures - use to hunderstand if control messures are working by looking at population levels.
10) Prepare for next year - history does not repeat itself but rather it echos. Be ready for anything that comes next on the alien world.
Category:Intergalactic Insects