Journal of Integrated Pest Management (2014) 5, C1-C9

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C.R. Philips, M.A. Rogers and T.P. Kuhar (2014)
Understanding farmscapes and their potential for improving IPM programs
Journal of Integrated Pest Management 5 (3), C1-C9
Abstract: New pest management programs must strive to achieve sustained, improved crop production and profitable agriculture, while simultaneously conserving natural resources and protecting the environment. Redesigning farms to take advantage of natural biological control can improve the sustainability of integrated pest management programs. A technique common in this approach to pest management is farmscaping, which refers to the arrangement or configuration of plants that promote biological pest management by attracting and sustaining beneficial organisms. Farmscaping is an ecologically based, whole-farm approach to enhancing the efficacy and local abundance of arthropod natural enemies through modification of the environment. However, by adding these resources back to simplified agriculture systems, they provide numerous other ecosystem services such as erosion control, reduced runoff, esthetic benefits, increased revenue, nutrient management, pollination services, soil health, as well as improved pest suppression. Herein, we discuss the strategy of farmscaping, review the theory of how it can improve pest management, and discuss the practicalities and risks involved in incorporating farmscapes into integrated pest management programs.
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Database assignments for author(s): Thomas P. Kuhar, Mary A. Rogers

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
environment - cropping system/rotation
biocontrol - natural enemies

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Leptinotarsa decemlineata
	Pieris rapae