Growers today tend to think that integrated pest management has to do primarily with monitoring pests and scheduling ­pesticide applications. But that’s not what IPM was envisioned to be at the outset, Dr. Nick Mills, entomologist with the University of California, Berkeley, told growers during the Washington State Horticultural Association’s annual meeting. Twice during the past 20 years, the National Academy of Sciences has revisited the idea of what IPM is and what growers should be thinking about in implementing IPM, he said. They see IPM as an ecologically based ­system that seeks to manage, rather than eliminate pests. “I […]