In summary, the key points for an integrated pest management approach are:

• Design and prevention as a starting point, supported by staff training.
• Pest Proofing, meaning physical and mechanical measures to prevent pests from entering and settling.
• Pest Monitoring, to identify and classify control points (CPs) and manage significant hazards.
• Pest Control, to be implemented when risk thresholds are exceeded, through:
  • Preventive measures, such as the use of beneficial insects (biological control).
  • Curative measures, through physical methods or biocides to eliminate pests

The corrective actions implemented by the service provider—consistent with the Risk Analysis—consisted of volumetric saturation using an insecticide synergized with piperonyl butoxide each time the threshold was exceeded.

In the absence of significant improvements, the pest control intervention was carried out with the technical support of the Colkim team, which proposed a change in strategy.

The following year, in the event of threshold exceedances, a treatment with a toxic gas based on sulfuryl fluoride was introduced as a corrective action to be included in the pest management plan, in addition to the use of mating disruption and the release of beneficial insects.

The collected data showed that the infesting population was completely eliminated, without any additional chemical treatments during the year, with only a minimal increase in infestation levels—consistently well below the risk threshold—thanks to the use of preventive biological control methods.