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Choose IPM: Managing Wasps
May 2025
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Managing wasps with Integrated Pest Management
Wasps commonly build nests on structures, visit trash cans, and may sting people if disturbed. In the spring, queens are looking to establish new populations so trapping them now will prevent them from becoming a problem. DPR's School IPM Program has resources on safe and effective sustainable pest management practices to manage wasps.
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Identifying wasps for prevention
Paper wasps and yellow jacket wasps have different characteristics. To view our factsheet on Wasp Integrated Pest Management, click the "View Factsheet" button below.
Video of how to set wasp traps
Wasp traps are best set in early spring to reduce the number of wasps searching for nesting sites. Watch our video to learn more about how to set a wasp trap and other IPM strategies to help control wasps.
What is IPM?
Integrated pest management, or IPM, is a sustainable pest management strategy you can use everyday. IPM focuses on a variety of pest prevention and non-toxic or least-toxic pest management techniques to effectively solve pest problems. IPM strategies use practices that exclude pests so they can’t cause problems and use pesticides only as a last resort. By using integrated pest management practices, it’s possible to effectively, safely, and more sustainably manage pests at your school or child care center while protecting staff, children, and the environment.
What is SPM?
Sustainable Pest Management (SPM) is a holistic, whole-system approach applicable in agricultural and other managed ecosystems and urban and rural communities that builds on the concept of integrated pest management (IPM) to include the wider context of the three sustainability pillars: Human Health & Social Equality, Environmental Protections, and Economic Vitality.
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Questions? Contact Us:
Please contact the Department of Pesticide Regulation’s School IPM Program by emailing school-ipm@cdpr.ca.gov. For additional information about the School IPM Program please visit DPR’s website.
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Who We Are
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation protects human health and the environment by fostering safer and sustainable pest management practices and operating a robust regulatory system to monitor and manage the sale and use of pesticides across the state. DPR’s work includes registering all pesticides sold or used in California, conducting scientific evaluation of pesticides to assess and mitigate potential harm to human health or the environment, investing in innovative research to encourage the development and adoption of integrated pest management tools and practices, monitoring for pesticides in the air and water, conducting outreach to ensure pesticide workers, farmworkers and local communities have access to safety information, and enforcing pesticide regulations in coordination with 55 County Agricultural Commissioners and their 500 field inspectors.
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