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Management These days Whatcom County farmers, along with their counterparts around the world, are implementing what one Whatcom County raspberry grower has called "smart farming" or integrated pest management (IPM). IPM is a process where the land manager actively makes decisions about pests. This systematic decision making include such questions as: How do I maintain a healthy landscape so that my plants more readily tolerate pest damage. Is this pest of such importance that I need to intervene and do something, or will nature, including a healthy plant, tolerate the damage with no significant implications? If I do decide that intervention is required, what is the best choice among alternative methods. Best choice here includes consideration of the impacts on the environment. Alternative methods only include those that are expected to be effective. Home owners can adopt the same decision making process to determine whether a pest is significant or not and if it is, choose the least environmentally disruptive approach as the appropriate method of response. The first approach for European Crane Fly should be to select the most appropriate ground cover for the landscape. For high use areas to accommodate children playing and dogs running, lawns may be the most resilient choice of plant material. For aesthetic value to look at in the landscape, many people prefer lawns, but there are many other groundcover plant choices that are not subject to crane fly like lawns are. continued..... |
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See also: "ECF
& CCF" - by Sharon Collman
"Managing ECF in Whatcom Co." - by Todd Murray and Scarlet
Tang"ECF-
Management History & the loss of Dursban" - Antonelli
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