Talk:Green pest management

Merge with integrated pest management?

Looks like there's been some clean up going on at some related articles (improvements indeed too). However, wouldn't this be better presented on the IPM page with even just a sentence or two saying that "green pest management" is a nickname for IPM in organic settings? The two articles are largely redundant right now, so it seems like a single sentence stating the slight difference would be all that's needed with maybe a brief mention of background behind organic approved insecticides. That being said, I'm a little bit iffy on how or whether we should be mentioning "green" pest management. Normally those of us who work and do research in this topic call it integrated pest management regardless of whether we're working with conventional or organic farmers. I can't say I've ever seen the term legitimately used at research meetings or extensions events, nor have I run into organic farmers using the term. That's all from my own background that we can't use as a source here (but where my concern is coming from), so do we have any information on where this term is getting notable use? If we don't have that, it seems like it would be even simpler to just specify over at IPM that organic growers using IPM use their organic-approved insecticides instead and leave it at that without mentioning "green" or otherwise. Kingofaces43 (talk) 18:04, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

YES. I wasn't aware of that article and its better yet. do you want to do it? Jytdog (talk) 18:12, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Sure thing. I think I'll leave the whole "green" pest management term out of the merged content for now, and someone can add it in later if it ever is demonstrated to be distinctly used apart from IPM. The IPM page is on my to-do list too because it isn't the greatest for readability right now, but that's a task for another day. Kingofaces43 (talk) 18:17, 3 August 2014 (UTC)