ABSTRACT
As a concept, integrated pest management (IPM) was named and defined starting in the late 1950s and the 1960s. As a practice, it existed before the development of modern pesticides, but its emergence as a “new” concept resulted from a period of overuse of pesticides, leading to growing recognition of their drawbacks and limitations. The problems were most acute with insecticides, and entomologists led the way in the development of “IPM.”
