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Integrated Pest Management - IPM

By David Beaulieu, About.com

Definition: Integrated pest management, or IPM is the management of pest problems that involves use of the full spectrum of control measures in a coordinated, integrated and foresighted manner. A cornerstone of IPM is the idea that taking preventive steps to preclude a pest problem is preferable to waiting for pests to arrive and then having to eradicate them.
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