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Integrated Vector Management

Computer generated image containing drawings and text. Drawings are of a mosquito trap, microscope, person pointing to a mosquito on a chalkboard, a dipper, a pail, a bottle cap, a planter with flower, a drone, a person applying mosquito control treatment, fish, a power drill. Text reads "Surveillance, public education, preventative practice, chemical control, biological control, physical control". the words "Integrated vector management" are large in the middle of the graphic.

If you have a pest problem, you might reach for a pesticide to solve your problem.  But what if there were a way to prevent the pest in the first place?  What if there were other 'tools' in the 'toolbox' besides a pesticide?

The good news is we can aim to prevent pests and we can use tools before/alongside/instead of pesticides to solve pest problems!

Solving pest problems while minimizing risks to people and the environment has a lot of different names:

  • IPM (Integrated Pest Management),
  • IVM (Integrated Vector Management)
  • IMM (Integrated Mosquito Management)

All these mean the same thing: long-term prevention of pests and the damage they cause, with thoughtful consideration of which tools in our toolbox are the best for each individual situation.

 

 

 

Page last reviewed: January 19, 2024

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