Welcome to the website of bioLogical control solutions (BCS), a consulting company working with greenhouse growers to help them better manage crop pests and diseases. At BCS, we are committed to the long-term sustainability of pest management programs; sustainable in terms of efficacy, as well as environmentally and economically.

 

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a concept of managing pests that makes use of all appropriate control strategies. Originally developed in the 1950s to address the problems of pesticide resistance, it is now used throughout the world. The diversity of control methods used in IPM, reduces the potential for pesticide resistance to develop, reduces potential environmental impact of pesticides and allows for more effective pest management. In greenhouse and protected cultivation, IPM has consistently allowed growers to produce high quality crops under intensive production systems.

 

IPM makes use of strategies such as cultural controls (e.g. sanitation, varietal resistance, environmental management for disease control); physical controls (e.g. mass trapping of flying insect pests, insect exclusion screening, quarantine); biological control options such as predatory mites and parasitic wasps; and pesticides as appropriate. IPM is held together by a comprehensive pest monitoring program to inform control decisions of insect, mite and disease pests in the crop.