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Okanagan-Kootenay
STERILE INSECT RELEASE PROGRAM
A Successful Area-Wide Integrated Pest
Management (IPM)Program
20 Years of Codling Moth Control
July 2013
Contact: Cara Nelson, General Manager Okanagan-Kootenay Sterile Insect Release Program
Kelowna, BC CANADA
www.oksir.org
CODLING MOTH DISTRIBUTION
CODLING MOTH LIFE CYCLE
• Mandate
• Governance and Funding
• Program Services
• Measuring Success
• Success Factors
• Challenges and Opportunities
• Summary
A SUCCESSFUL AREA-WIDE IPM PROGRAM
• Program Mandate
• Program Services
• Governance and Funding
• Measuring Success
• Success Factors
• Challenges and Opportunities
• Summary
Topics to be presented:
To keep codling moth below economic
levels through delivery of an efficient,
effective and sustainable area-wide pest
management program.
PROGRAM MANDATE
3,696 hectares
of pome fruit
• Mandatory Area-wide Control Application
weekly sterile moth release or
mating disruption
• Surveillance pheromone traps, fruit damage,
banding, visual inspection
• Enforcement inspection, fruit stripping, tree removal
• Education publications, newsletter articles,
website, field visits, meetings
PROGRAM SERVICES
PROGRAM SERVICES
• Board of Directors 5 local elected officials and 3 growers
• Operations Advisory Committee technical and regulatory advisors
• Funded through Municipal Taxation property tax assessment – all properties
grower parcel tax on planted acreage
• Annual Program Budget $3,1 million CDN
GOVERNANCE and FUNDING
$1.71 million
$1.18 million
$0.27 million
Property Value Tax
Parcel Tax
Other
COST RECOVERY - 2013
PROGRAM COST
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Parcel Tax Property Value Tax
Parcel Tax =
$139.26/acre of
planted trees
PROGRAM COST
COST ALLOCATION
Program Budget held 0% increase 2010-2013
Based on 2010 TAXES
Municipality Home Value (Land) SIR Tax (2010)
Penticton $150,000 $7.00
West Kelowna $225,000 $10.50
Kelowna $250,000 $11.50
Vernon $175,000 $8.50
Coldstream $200,000 $9.75
Salmon Arm $125,000 $6.00
PROGRAM COST
COST IMPACT
MEASURING SUCCESS
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1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 20082009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Zone 1
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/Tra
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eek
Annual Average CM/Trap/Week
All Zones, 1998 - 2012
Sterile moth release start:
Zone 1 = 1994
Zone 2 & 3 = 2002
Annual Median CM/Trap/Week among Infested Orchards
All Zones, 2000 - 2012
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MEASURING SUCCESS
MEASURING SUCCESS
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Percent Acreage <0.2% Codling Moth Fruit Damage,
2005 - 2011
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Annual Total Kg or L of Codling Moth Control Products Sold/Acre in the OKSIR Program Area, 1991-2011
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Data supplied by the BC Ministry of Environment from annual vendor license renewals. Compiled by Hugh Philip, Pag, OKSIR Consulting IPM Specialist - May 2013
MEASURING SUCCESS
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Estimated Average Number of Sprays Applied/Orchard/Year in OKSIR Program Area Based on Annual Sales of
Codling Moth Control Products, 1991-2012 N
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(Data supplied by the BC Ministry of Environment from annual vendor license renewals)
MEASURING SUCCESS
SUCCESS FACTORS
Strong Organization
• Consistency in delivery of services for area-
wide management
Application of mandatory control
Authority to access all properties
Surveillance system
Authority to enforce control
SUCCESS FACTORS
Co-operation • Collaborative education activities with industry
to promote codling moth best management
practices
• Collaborative research and technical advice to
improve program services
Commitment • Growers and industry organizations support
• Ongoing local government and citizen support
• Dedicated and committed Program staff
• Philosophical differences among growers
• Maintaining adequate funding levels
local government support
decreasing pomme fruit hectares
• Increasing value to stakeholders(clients)
• Threat of new pests (e.g. apple maggot,
brown marmorated stink bug)
CHALLENGES
• More cost effective control methods
• Addition of other pests
• Recognition as Area of Low Pest Prevalence
• Other funding sources
OPPORTUNITIES
• Establishment of an effective structure for
delivery of area-wide pest management
• Suppression of codling moth to sub-economic
levels = reduced reliance on pesticides
• Improved opportunities for biological control
• Dedicated enforcement for growers
• Documentation of pest prevalence
• Improved earlier detection and response to new
invasive alien species
SUMMARY
A Successful Area-Wide IPM Program
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Okanagan-Kootenay Sterile Insect Release Program Kelowna, BC, CANADA
www.oksir.org
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