Teaching Organic Farming and Gardening

Managing Arthropod Pests

Unit 1.8 | 9

4. Physical control methods

a) Row covers

b) Solarization

c) Vacuums

d) Traps

e) Flooding

f) Tillage

g) Field sanitation

h) Netting

i) Hand picking

j) Reflective mulches

k) Petroleum oil barriers

5. Pheromones

a) Pheromones defined

b) Trapping out

c) Mating disruption

Instructor’s Lecture 1 Outline