Model Program Guidebook
2nd Edition
PM 02-04
INTRODUCTION
Dear Reader:
This letter introduces you to the California School IPM model program guidebook. We have developed this guidebook for use by school district maintenance and operations staff, IPM coordinators and other school staff. Please review this guidebook and feel free to use it as a reference tool as you implement integrated pest management (IPM).
Who Developed This Guidebook?
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) developed this model program guidebook, as required by the Healthy Schools Act of 2000, for use by school districts that wish to adopt a least-hazardous IPM program. The authors drew their information from federal school IPM guidelines, other states’ IPM programs, California state laws and regulations, the University of California Statewide IPM program, California school districts that have already implemented IPM programs, the pest control industry, and public interest groups.
What Is the Purpose of the Guidebook?
This guidebook is designed to help you use IPM in your school’s pest management program. The guidebook serves as a guide and provides models for schools that choose to implement IPM. IPM is not required in California schools. We intend this guidebook to be useful as both a companion manual for the DPR California School IPM coordinator training and as a reference tool for your school district when implementing IPM. IPM coordinators can use this text to train school district personnel in IPM theory and practices. School staff can refer to it for day-to-day pest management questions.
Why Use the Guidebook?
Whether you are just starting to implement an IPM program or want to improve an existing program, this guidebook will serve as a useful resource to answer your IPM questions and to provide practical, hands-on steps that can be implemented as part of your IPM program. The first part of this book lays out the essential elements of a least-hazardous IPM program and the steps to adopting an IPM program. Specific strategies for pest management indoors and outdoors are covered in the second part of the guidebook, arranged by individual pests.
We hope you find this guidebook to be useful and we encourage your input into the next edition. Please contact Belinda Messenger at 916-324-4077 with your suggestions. Any portion of this guidebook may be reproduced for any but profit-making purposes.
Contents
Table of Contents (printable version 89 kb PDF)
Disclaimer
The mention within this document of commercial products, their sources,
or their use is not to be construed as either an actual or implied endorsement.
Mention is made of some representative products, but the Department of
Pesticide Regulation does not recognize any product as superior to any
other.
Download entire guidebook (10.5 mb PDF – not recommended for slow internet connections)
Part 1: IPM Program Information (download, 469 kb PDF)
- Introduction to California School IPM
- Adopting an IPM Program
- Monitoring Pest Populations and Damage
- Setting Injury and Action Levels
- Selecting Least-Hazardous Pest Control Practices
- Bibliography for Part 1
- Glossary
Part 1: Appendices (download all appendices, 1.5 mb PDF)
- Sample Forms for Fulfilling the Requirements of the Healthy Schools Act (PDF, 144 kb)
- Pesticides Exempted from the Healthy Schools Act Right-to-Know requirements
- California Youth Authority Guidelines (PDF, 33kb)
- Text of the Healthy Schools Act Of 2000 (Chapter 718, Statutes Of 2000)
- Model IPM Policy and Examples (PDF, 210 kb)
- IPM-Related Curricula and Resources for the Classroom (PDF, 38kb)
- Pesticide Information Resources (PDF, 60 kb)
- Recommended Reading (PDF, 36kb)
- Sample IPM Contracts (PDF, 207 kb)
- Establishing Integrated Pest Management Policies and Programs: A Guide for Public Agencies (PDF, 132 kb)
- How to Collect and Preserve Specimens for Identification (PDF, 21kb)
- Pest Management Assessment Tool (PDF, 55kb)
- Monitoring Forms (PDF, 66kb)
- Inspection Checklist for Detecting Structural Decay and Structural Pest Damage (PDF, 52 kb)
- Training and Licensing Opportunities (PDF, 60 kb)
- Pesticide Safety Information Series N
Most of the following links are to the UC IPM Pest Notes, an authoritative source for management of common pests.
| 7. Indoor Pest Management | |||
| 7.1 Insects and Other Invertebrates | |||
| Ants | Carpenter Ants | ||
| Carpenter Bees | Carpet Beetles | ||
| Clothes Moths | Cockroaches | ||
| Fleas | Flies | ||
| Head Lice | Head Lice Information Packet for Schools (195kb pdf) | ||
| Scorpions in Schools (203kb pdf) | Silverbrats and Firebrats | ||
| Spiders | Termites | ||
| Termites (Drywood) | Wood-Boring Beetles | ||
| 7.2 Vertebrates | |||
| House Mouse | Rats in Schools (292kb pdf) | ||
| 8. Outdoor Pest Management | |||
| 8.1 Insects | |||
| Fungus Gnats, Shore
Flies, Moth Flies, and March Flies |
Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter | ||
| Lawn Insects | Lyme Disease in California | ||
| Psyllids | Red Imported Fire Ant | ||
| Yellow jackets and Other Social Wasps | |||
| 8.2 Lawn Diseases: Prevention and Management | |||
| 8.3 Vertebrates | |||
| California Ground Squirrel | Cliff Swallows | ||
| Pigeons in Schools (291k pdf) | Pocket Gophers | ||
| Voles | |||
| 8.4 Weeds | |||
| Weed Management in Landscapes | Annual Bluegrass | ||
| Bermudagrass | Clovers | ||
| Common Knotweed | Common Purslane | ||
| Crabgrass | Dallisgrass | ||
| Dandelions | Field Bindweed | ||
| Mistletoe | Nutsedge | ||
| Spotted Spurge | Yellow Starthistle | ||