Integrated pest management in Conilon coffee.

Conilon coffee pests present behaviors regulated by factors intrinsic to the environment, such as climate, microclimate, food availability and presence of natural enemies. The alteration ofthese regulatory factors leads to the equilibrium instability and causes abrupt changes ofthe populations present in the ecosystem. Agricultural environments replace natural diversity by a small number of plants grown inextensive areas, which characterizes monocultures.They seek scale production and productivity through the intensive use of technology and external inputs such as pesticides, inorganic fertilizers, irrigation, and high yield genetic material...