An Integrated Pest Management is formulated as a threshold policy. It is shown that when this strategy is applied to a food web consisting of generalist, specialist predators and endemic and pest prey, the dynamics can be stable and useful from the pest control point of view, despite the dynamical complexities inherent to the application of biocontrol only. In addition, pesticide toxicity depen...

This paper describes the architecture of the Integrated Pest Management Expert System (IPMES) project that is being developed by the University of Otago and HortResearch. The project develops and applies new learning techniques to building intelligent systems. The overall intention of this project is to develop an adaptive decision support system for pest management based on information integra...