For The Love of Bees and Beekeepong:What Does Honey Bee IPM Look Like?

摘要

When it comes to honey bee healthit's almost become a platitude toextol the virtues of IPM - Integrated Pest Management - an approach to pest control that has dominated agricultural research, teaching, and extension since the 1960s. Over the years, IPM has made impressive advances into mainstream crop culture and animal husbandry. Its adherents can be found at all strata of agriculture from mega-farms to community farmers' markets. The term began popping up in beekeeping magazines shortly after the arrival of Varroa mites in the 1980s, and today one can find IPM sections in beekeeping catalogs and copious literature about sustainable methods of controlling mites and keeping bees healthy. But it seems to me that there still remains no small confusion over what exactly IPM is. Or at least what it looks like in the caseof beekeeping.