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Pest protection is a key concern for both agricultural and horticultural growers. In 2000 field growncrops accounted for 5,286 hectares of land cover, which equates to 47.5 million euro in revenue forgrowers (Board Bia, 2000) . For such a high monetary value area, they must be protected to preventfinancial losses. The horticulture sector
has an estimated annual value of €380
million(2011).Protected and field grown crops have an equal potential of being attacked by pests.Some of the main pests to be studied in this review are slugs, snails, black vein weevil, aphids andlarger pests like rabbits and the Greater Sandhill crane of America.Pest management is a consistently evolving area where new techniques are required to adequatelydeal with problematic pests. Due to the over-use of pesticides insects can become resistant to theireffect which results in the need for new chemicals (Dhawan, 2009). This is an area, which requiresmuch research and testing, to find successful chemical controls. Many new practises have evolvedfrom methods, which worked in the past. Often studying the chemicals in new ways helps to findmore effective ways of using them.In modern society there has be a move towards environmentally friendly practises as people havebecome aware of the impact chemicals have on the environment (A. K. Dhawan 2009). This has led tothe wide adoption of Integrated Pest Management (IPM). IMP is
defines it as “
a process consisting of the balanced use of cultural, biological, and chemical procedures that are environmentallycompatible, economically feasible, and socially acceptable to reduce pest populations to tolerable
(Extension 2012) This process has been adopted in both developed and underdevelopedcountries.The objectives of this review are to critically evaluate common pest management methods with aneye for its involvement as part of an IPM strategy.