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- School IPM - General
- School IPM - Manuals
- School IPM - Programs
- IPM - City and County Programs
- IPM - General
- IPM - Tools
- Identifying Pests
- Managing Pests
- Pesticide Information - General
- Health & Environmental Impacts of Pesticides
- Laws and Regulations - Federal
- Laws and Regulations - State
- U.S. EPA Sites
School IPM - General
- "Parents, Public Schools, and Integrated Pest Management", PDF (132 kb) - A Purdue University survey.
- Purdue University IPM Technical Resource Center - Provides information and resources for IPM in schools and childcare facilities.
- National School IPM Information Source - A comprehensive web site developed by the University of Florida. Many resources, including information for school administrators, free downloadable presentations, teaching curricula, and links.
- "Response to Pre-Notification of Pesticide Application in a Public School System" PDF (133 kb) - Study article in Journal of Pesticide Safety Education (2000, Volume 2).
- Southwest School IPM Technical Resource Center - A comprehensive resource for implementing IPM in schools and child care facilities throughout the U.S., but especially Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.
- U.S. EPA - IPM in Schools - Home page for the US Environmental Protection Agency’s school IPM programs.
- IPM for Schools: A How-to Manual Comprehensive school IPM manual developed by the Bio-Integral Resource Center (BIRC) for the U.S. EPA Region 9.
- Wisconsin’s School Integrated Pest Management Manual - Produced by Wisconsin’s pilot school IPM program.
- New York School IPM Workbook, PDF (1 mb) - Published by Cornell Cooperative Extension Community IPM Program, Cornell University.
- Minnesota School IPM Publications - Home page for the IPM program of the Minnesota Agricultural Development Division. Includes survey results on school IPM and a series of fact sheets on common school pests.
- Illinois School IPM - This document contains a great deal that is specific to Illinois state requirements but also has useful information on IPM policy- making and other general information.
- Florida School IPM - A comprehensive Web site developed by the University of Florida. Many resources, including information for school administrators, free downloadable presentations, teaching curricula and links.
- Pennsylvania School IPM - Pennsylvania State University-based Web site for the state’s School IPM program.
- Monroe Co., Indiana pilot program - A school district in Indiana that has been using IPM techniques since 1996.
- Alabama School IPM Website - Auburn university-based Web site for the state’s School IPM program.
- City of San Francisco IPM Program - San Francisco adopted an ordinance requiring IPM practices in 1996, and has an extensive IPM program. This site includes lists of approved pesticide products, a copy of the ordinance, a training manual, and fact sheets on specific urban pests.
- National Integrated Pest Management Network - This is a federal- state extension partnership dedicated to making the latest and most accurate pest management information available online.
- Citizens Guide to Pest Control and Pesticide Safety, PDF (4.2 mb) - An online publication from the U.S. EPA.
- Ventura UCCE IPM Home Page - An IPM Web site presented by University of California Cooperative Extension of Ventura County.
- Radcliffe’s IPM World Textbook - The University of Minnesota’s electronic textbook of integrated pest management, featuring contributed chapters by internationally recognized experts.
- Database of IPM Resources - An information retrieval and referral system and a compendium of customized directories of worldwide IPM information resources accessible through the Internet.
- IPM Institute of North America, Inc. - Links and resources for School IPM.
- U.S. EPA Cleaning Products Pilot Project, PDF (388 kb) - A sortable list of cleaning products with attributes such as presence of fragrance or dye, potential for skin irritation, air pollution potential, and use of recycled packaging noted.
- Healthy School Environments Assessment Tool, Version 2 (HealthySEATv2) - Manage all of your school environmental health and safety issues with this fully integrated, flexible, and free software tool from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
- Iowa State entomology index - A directory and search engine of insect-related resources on the Internet.
- UCIPM Key to Identifying Common Household Ants. This resource includes the ant species that are most likely to be a nuisance around California homes and structures, with a step-by-step key, illustrations, photos, and species summaries. From the Univ. of California Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program (UCIPM).
- UCIPM Weed Photo Gallery [external web site]. The UC IPM Weed Photo Gallery includes many, but not all, weed species commonly found in California farms and landscapes, organized by common name.
- UCIPM How to Manage Pests - Check the excellent photos on this site to help identify your pest. Specific to California.
- Virginia Tech Insect Identification Laboratory - Here you will find a simple, nontechnical key to major insect groups, and more.
- West Virginia University pest identification links - A collection of web sites specializing in insect identification.
- UCIPM Pest Notes Up-to-date, authoritative fact sheets on a variety of structural and landscape pests from the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program (UCIPM).
- Fact sheets from Central Contra Costa Sanitary District - Another excellent set of pest fact sheets specific to California conditions.
- Ohio State University PlantFacts - Contains a fact sheet database, with guides for answering plant-related questions from 46 different universities and government institutions across the United States and Canada.
- U.S. EPA IPM in Schools: A How-To Manual - This school IPM guidebook contains chapters on managing specific pest problems.
- UCKAC Plant Protection Quarterly - Up-to-date IPM information published by the University of California Kearney Agricultural Center, aimed at farm advisors and other extension personnel. Mostly agricultural, but some urban pests are covered.
- Look up pesticide label information - On this DPR page you can look up specific pesticide products by product name, manufacturer, U.S. EPA registration number, or PC code (used by U.S. EPA to identify particular chemical ingredients). You can then click to view images of U.S. EPA product labels. The labels are sometimes difficult to read (depending on your web browser), and many labels are not yet available.
- Compendium of Pesticide Common Names - Find active ingredients associated with pesticide common names. This electronic compendium is intended to provide details of the status of all pesticide common names, together with their systematic chemical names, molecular formulae and Chemical Abstracts Registry Numbers.
- WSU Pesticide Information Center - Pesticide labels and other links to pesticide information.
- An Introduction to Insecticides A summary of common insecticides, written by Professor Emeritus George Ware of University of Arizona. Somewhat technical.
- U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Pesticide Pipeline - NPMT is a collection of three separate but similar pesticide databases that provides information on new and upcoming products and product uses being considered by EPA.
- Read the Label First - An interactive how-to guide on reading a pesticide label, from the U.S. EPA.
- DPR pesticide databases - Look up pesticide products by active ingredient, product name, and other criteria, then select “full report” for a brief summary of toxicity information. Only California-registered products.
- EXTOXNET global search - Look up many (not all) pesticide active ingredients, and check toxicology information. ”Pesticide Information Profiles“ can be searched or browsed. Produced by a consortium of universities.
- Cornell-Pesticide Active Ingredient Profiles - These pesticide profiles include the Extoxnet Pesticide Information Profiles as well as information taken from other sources, such as the U.S. EPA and the Federal Register. Pesticides are organized by type of pesticide and active ingredient.
- Pesticides and Material Safety Data Sheets, PDF (1.6 mb) - Purdue University.
- How to Read a Material Safety Data Sheet, PDF (138 kb) - University of Maryland Cooperative Extension leaflet.
- List of inert pesticide ingredients - Up-to-date, alphabetized lists of chemicals falling into the four U.S. EPA categories of inert ingredients.
- U.S. EPA Pesticide Data Sources - Shows sources of U.S. EPA and other pesticide data. Some databases not user-friendly.
- Proposition 65 list - The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 requires that the Governor or California revise and republish at least once per year the list of chemicals known to the State to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity. The link is near the bottom of the page. Courtesy of California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazards Assessment.
- TOXNET Home - A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Comprehensive but not always user-friendly.
- OEHHA Toxicity Criteria Database - Use this page to look up No Significant Risk Levels (NSRLs) and Maximum Allowable Daily Levels (MADLs) for specific chemicals, courtesy of California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazards Assessment.
- Chemical Health and Safety Web Resources - Sources of information on pesticides and other chemicals.
- National Pesticide Information Center - A comprehensive Web site featuring a full range of regulatory, technical, and other links related to pesticides and pesticide safety.
- U.S. EPA Fact Sheet on Pesticides and Their Impact on Children, PDF (157 kb) - Key facts about the risks associated with pesticides
- The Federal Register (1994 to present) - Searchable database of United States documents, including rules, notices and executive orders.
- Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA) - Web site containing the text of FQPA and other pertinent information relating to this law.
- FIFRA text - The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), contained in Title 7, Chapter 6 of the U.S. Code. FIFRA mandates that the U.S. EPA regulate the use and sale of pesticides to protect human health and preserve the environment.
- Official California Legislative Information - Bill Information - Search engine to look up history and status of California legislation.
- Welcome to the California Code of Regulations - Searchable database of California regulations.
- Code of Federal Regulations - Searchable database for the US Code of Federal Regulations.
- U.S. EPA - Office of Children’s Health Protection - Resources on children’s health issues, including pest management.
- U.S. EPA Office of Pesticide Programs - Homepage for the U.S. EPA OPP.
- U.S. EPA Toxicity Reference Database - Search for toxicity information on hundreds of chemicals.
- U.S. EPA Indoor Air Quality - Mold Remediation in Schools and Commercial Buildings
- U.S. EPA Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) tools for Schools Action Kit - IAQ resources including an IPM checklist
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