Course: SLF 112 Integrated Pest Management

Reading & Audio Visual

Readings: Scouting & Record Keeping
Readings: Scouting & Record Keeping

Technician Charlie Lee removes a fruit fly trap while ecologist Hannah Revis prepares to record data.
These readings introduce scouting and record-keeping, critical components to an integrated pest management program. Read the articles by clicking on the following the links.

Record Keeping
by Timothy J Gibb © Purdue University

This webpage provides some simple and effective examples of an IPM inspection log and the IPM decision-making flow chart.

Scouting Vegetables for Pests read pages 1-5
by Karen Delahaut, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, University of Wisconsin - Madison

This paper introduces methods for systematic scouting of crops.

Developing an Integrated Pest Management Program for Nurseries
by Clifford S. Sadof and Bruno Moser, Purdue Extension, Department of Entomology

This document provides an overview for developing an IPM program as well as examples of record keeping documents.