The Ticking Stops...
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Of course. Read this article...
But how would we go about catchin those insects to eat?
Would we build an insect farm?
Insect Management onOrganic
Farms
by H. M. Linker, D. B. Orr, and M. E. Barbercheck
nsect management presents a challenge to
organic farmers. Insects are highly mobile
and well adapted to farm production
systems and pest control tactics. On organic
farms, where the focus is on managing insects
rather than eliminating them, success depends
on learning about three kinds of information:
• Biological information.What the insect
needs to survive can be used to determine
if pest insects can be deprived of some
vital resource.
• Ecological information. How the insect
interacts with the environment and other
species can be used to shape a pestresistant environment.
• Behavioral information about both pest and
beneficial insects. How the insect goes
about collecting the necessities of life can
be manipulated to protect crops.
This knowledge can be used to craft a
management plan that incorporates many
different elements to suppress pest insects. No
single tactic, employed alone, is likely to give
satisfactory control of chronic pest species.
Certified organic farmers can use a wide
range of practices to create an integrated pest
management approach that complies with the
standards of the USDA’s National Organic
Program (NOP): HTMLCounter.com. gov/nop/,
(202) 720-3252. The standard states that a
farmer must use management practices to
prevent crop pests, weeds, and diseases,
Figure 1. Striped cucumber beetle (Acalymma vittatum) (Photo courtesy of USDA.)
IOrganic Production Series— Insect Management 2
including but not limited to these: crop
rotation and soil and crop nutrient
management practices; sanitation measures to
remove disease vectors, weed seeds, and
habitat for pest organisms; and cultural
practices that enhance crop health, including
selection of plant species and varieties that are
suitable to site-specific conditions and
resistant to prevalent pests, weeds, and
diseases.
According to the organic standard, insect pest
problems may be controlled through cultural,
mechanical or physical methods; augmentation or introduction of predators or parasites
of the pest species; development of habitat for
natural enemies of pests; and nonsynthetic
controls, such as lures, traps, and repellents.
When these practices are insufficient to
prevent or control crop pests, a biological,
botanical, or chemical material or substance
included on the National List of nonsynthetic
and synthetic substances allowed for use in
organic crop production may be applied to
prevent, suppress, or control pests. However,
the conditions for using the material must be
documented in the organic system plan.
Pest management plans are site-specific.
Farmers should develop their own strategies
based on their knowledge, available time, and
capital—the resources they can devote to pest
management. This chapter provides basic
information on pest insects and the
management tactics that organic farmers can
use to keep pest insect populations at levels
that do not pose an economic threat to crops.
It is not a how-to guide that can be followed
step by step. We will focus on the following
topics:
• Cultural practices. The first key step
toward managing pest insects is using
cultural practices that suppress pest
species and encourage their natural
enemies, also referred to in this chapter as
beneficials.
• Pheromones and other attractants.
Organic farmers can use chemical
attractants to trap pest insects, disrupt
their reproduction cycle, and monitor
their population levels.
Biological control using insect
pathogens. Organisms that cause disease
in insects can be exploited to help control
pest populations by managing the
environment to favor insect disease or by
applying allowable purchased products.
The use of insect pathogens to manage
pests is called microbial control.
• Biological control using insect natural
enemies. Farmers can manage their fields
to provide habitats for species that eat and
live on pest insects. This can be
accomplished through conserving and
augmenting beneficial populations.
• Insecticides. Allowable organic and
inorganic chemicals, insecticidal oils and
soaps, microbial insecticides, particle
films, and botanicals, when used in
combination with the above pest
management strategies, can help to
suppress pest insect populations.
All of these practices used together comprise
an integrated pest management (IPM)
approach.
CULTURAL PRACTICES: THE PLACE TO
START
Pest insect problems are influenced by three
components of a farming system. Farmers can
manipulate all of these components to
suppress pest species.
• The crop species and cultivar present a set of
resources, growth habits, and structure. Organic Production Series— Insect Management 3
• Production practices, such as rotation,
timeliness of planting and harvesting,
spacing of plants, fertility and water
management, tillage, mulching, sanitation,
and companion planting.
• Agroecosystem structure includes field
borders, natural vegetation, and other
crop production areas that resupply fields
with pest insects and beneficial species
when crops are replanted.
Insects require a basic set of resources to live
and reproduce. Production practices that
deprive a pest species of at least one needed
element of life may maintain pest populations
below economically damaging levels for
extended periods. It is unlikely, however, that
cultural practices will provide permanent
control because the most troublesome insect
species are those that are well-adapted to the
production systems used on a farm.
Populations of these pest insects will tend to
increase under a particular production
system, while populations of less welladapted species will decrease.
Pest insects must be very adaptive to succeed
because their physical environment changes
as production systems change. Insects must
deal with many environmental changes,
including different tillage practices, fertility
regimes, and planting dates. Each individual
practice can change pest insect population
dynamics. In organic systems, farmers use
many different cultural practices and cultivate
a wide array of crops. The interactive effect of
this array of interacting elements on pests is
difficult to predict and usually can be
determined only through research and
experience.
Farmers can use cultural control measures to
modify the crop environment enough to
increase environmental resistance to pest
insects. This can involve one or all of the
following strategies:
• Reducing initial pest levels by making the
crop environment unattractive,
unfavorable for pest reproduction and
growth, or both.
• Producing favorable conditions for
natural enemies.
• Increasing the plants’ ability to withstand
pest damage.
When used together, the cultural practices
described on the following pages provide
useful tools for reducing or preventing pest
problems.
Monitoring
Monitoring insects is fundamental to good
management. Determining when a pest insect
first colonizes a crop and measuring its abundance on a regular schedule provides the information needed to make control decisions.
Monitoring does not have to be a rigorous
procedure, but it needs to be done on a regular
basis using the right procedure.
In some cases (as for mites and aphids) simply
checking crops by direct observation is all that is
needed. For other pests, it is easier and quicker to
use a device, such as a sweep net, to sample
crops. Many devices—from plastic lunch trays to
ground cloths—are used to sample pests. Some
pests, like thrips, require a different procedure.
Local Extension offices have information on how
and when to monitor many crops for pests. This
procedure is essentially the same for organic or
conventional crops.
I get what you did there breh... Frogs eat insects! So what you're saying is that if we sacrifice the frog then we can end world hunger!!! Brilliant!!!
Brandon M.
City of Angels
both of them nikkas ugly tho
lol im just kidding
who cares
lol im just kidding
who cares
Honestly here, who's not familiar with it's "history" at this point?
You'd think that would be the case yet this parasite still always finds a new unsuspecting female to play into his twisted games.
He's the Richard Ramirez of this message board shyt
Snitchin Splatter
Working With The Feds
ok we get it nerds. Insects are gross. Now shut up and let this girl cook
Correct. If you mix insects in high protein foods that will be an added addition of protein. But i wouldn't condone mixing it with alcohol.
But how would we go about catchin those insects to eat?
Would we build an insect farm?
Absolutely....farms and factories that are fda regulated would be the goal! Im wondering that given the relative lack of size of the insects, if we cant just combine insect farms with other agricultural or animal based farms..
DarlingNikki
lil baby
Nicca been exposed to kingdom come ... But he bout to be in this thread snapping his fingers, rolling his neck and blowing bubble gum talking about y'all obsessed with him.
Nicca made a post earlier i had to dap him on cuz it was real spit... But son is still a true ... True scrub.
He got the battered wife syndrome for every forum he's on. We can roast him everyday but his weak ass still gonna have 100,000 posts by September.
How about instead of insects restaurants stop wasting food and donate whats left over at the end of the night?
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No...ive been indoctrinated by western taste buds. I would be hesitant to eat bugs, but i could adapt.
Think about this tho. If we can get women to eat nasty bugs and insects, then my thoery is that they would be more inclined to suck dyck and swallon nut for protein. Especially black women!
Emperor Sol
Knowledge and Wisdom
Sierra Mist wants his account deleted?
what a twist
what a twist
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nikkas keep talking bout cooking. When the fukk we gonna eat
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