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

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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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Sterile moth release start:

Zone 1 = 1994

Zone 2 & 3 = 2002

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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