VECTOR AND PEST MANAGEMENT

vector and pest management 

HISTORY

• Salt, smoke and insect repellent plants can keep away organism and preserve food.

• 5,000 years ago the Summarians controlled insects and mite with sulphur.

• Oil sprays, ash, sulphur ointment and lime were used by Greeks and Romans to protect themselves, livestock and crop pests.

• Romans burned fields and rotated crops to reduce crop diseases.

2,500 years ago Chinese controlled body lice and other pest with mercury and arsenic.

• Plant desired insecticides and predatory ants in orchards were developed by the Chinese to control caterpillars 1,200 years ago.

• Ducks and geese were used to catch insects and control weeds.

• Malaysia used cat to control and catch rats and mice.

DEFINE OF VECTOR

• Vector shall mean any insect or arthropod, rodent, or other animal

• which capable causing discomfort, injury, or

• capable of harboring or transmitting the causative agents of disease to humans or domestic animals.

• Examples of vector are such as, mosquitoes, cockroaches, flies, fleas and ticks are vectors of disease

DEFINE OF PEST 

• Pests are living things, which can be troublesome or unwanted.

• Some pests also called "vectors" because they transmit diseases and cause public health concern.

• Examples: rodents, cockroaches, mildew, algae, plant insects. Cockroaches, house ants, termites

• examples: Rodents, Flies, Cockroaches, Termites, Fleas, Bedbugs, Beetles, Birds, Bacteria, Fungi, Nematodes, Lice, Ticks, Weed, and Weevil larvae.

DIFFERENT OF VECTOR  PEST 

•  A vector is an organism that carries a pathogen with it. An example would be malaria-carrying mosquitos.

• Pests are in themselves the problem and usually refer to insects or animals that destroy crops.

• The term applied to design activities to identify, reduce or eliminate pest / vector populations in any given situation.

INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT

•   Integrated Pest Management is a process involving common sense and sound solutions for treating and controlling pests.

• Three basic steps: 1) inspection, 2) identification and 3) treatment.

•   Treatment options vary from sealing cracks and removing food and water sources to pesticide treatments when necessary.

•     "Optimum combination of control methods including biological, cultural, mechanical, physical and / or chemical controls to reduce pest populations to an acceptable economical level with as few as possible harmful effects on the environment and non-target organisms.

•   Integrated pest management - physical, cultural, biological, chemical.

CONTROL METHOD

•  Physical control FLY screens or trapping.

•  Cultural control-improving ventilation, hygiene and sanitation.

•   Biological control-parasites or predators to eradicate a particular pest.

•  Chemical control-appropriate pesticide