Chemical Control
IPM emphasizes that pesticides should normally be considered a last resort in the process of pest management. Problems with pest or pathogen resistance frequently occur with heavy pesticide use. Using all available pest management techniques through IPM can help reduce such problems and keep this tool available to growers.
- Agricultural Pesticides: Management Improvements Needed to Further Promote Integrated Pest Management, General Accounting Office, GAO-01-815, 17 August 2001 (2.1MB PDF)
- Biopesticides and Biorationals
- ChemSearch
- Compatibility of Chemicals with Natural Enemies
- Compendium of Pesticide Common Names, Alan Wood
- EPA criteria for reduced-risk pesticides
- EPA Phaseout of methyl bromide
- EPA Food Quality Protection Act
- Federal Pesticide Laws and Regulations
- FQPA: The Food Quality Protection Act
- Greenbook.net
- IPM Practitioner 2002 Directory of Least Toxic Pest Control Products
- IR-4 Program
- NASS Agricultural Chemical Use Database
- National Pesticide Use Database, 2002/2006 (201KB PDF)
- National Pesticide Information Retrieval System
- Online Pesticide CEUs
- Outdoor Residential Misting Systems (including mosquito misting systems) - EPA
- PAN Pesticides Database
- Pesticide Labels
- Pesticide Database, Pesticide Action Network - UK
- Pesticide Fact Sheets from UF Pesticide Information Office
- PDP program, pesticide residue data
- Regulation of Pesticide Use - EDIS, UF/IFAS
- Resistance Management
- Sources of Pesticide Information
- Spray Drift of Pesticides - EPA
- Tips on Working Safely with Pesticides in North Carolina - CropLife America Foundation
- USDA Crop Profiles
- USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Database of pesticide rates and limits for export crops
