Looking for documentation on managing pests?
Check out the Common Pests page for action plans for specific pests.
Selected Publications
Getting Started with IPM in Child-serving Facilities
IPM Manual for Schools
Complete School IPM Logbook
Why aren’t all Tennessee Schools Using IPM?
IPM for Healthy Schools – Tennessee Land, Life and Science Magazine.
Example Policy Statement for Schools
How to Develop Bids for Pest Control Services
Bed Bugs: What Schools Need to Know
- Sample Letter: Bed Bugs Found – Parent Notification
- Chinches de Cama Encontrados en la Escuela: Carta de Notificación a los Padres
- (Spanish tranlation credit: Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes, UT EPP; Roberto Brenes, UT FWF)
- Sample Letter: Bed Bug Plan – Parent Notification
- Plan de Chinches de Cama: Carta de Notificación para Padres
- (Spanish translation credit: Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes, UT EPP; and
- Drs. Armando Ulloa and Abelardo Moncayo, TDH)
Affordable Bed Bug Management? Suggestions for those unable to afford professional pest management services.
Managing Fire Ants in and around Tennessee’s Schools (UT Extension publication PB1788)
Available Fire Ant Products for Tennessee’s Schools (UT Extension publication W649)
Tennessee School IPM Advisory Board Meeting
Survey Results
- School Survey Results 2021
- School Survey Results 2017
- School Survey Results 2015
- School Survey Results 2013
- School Survey Results 2011
- School Survey Results 2002
- School Survey Results 1997
- Survey Questionnaire 1997
Program Summary
- Demonstrations and Partnering Increase School IPM Adoption Poster, ESA, 2011
- UT IPM Program records decreased volume of indoor pyrethroud applications in TN demonstration schools, Poster, ESA, 2013
- School IPM Demonstration Poster, ESA, 2009