Integrated Pest Management (IPM) consists of five core components. Which option lists them correctly?

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Integrated Pest Management is about combining multiple, targeted strategies to control pests while reducing environmental impact. The correct description lists five elements: accurate pest identification so you know exactly what you’re dealing with; monitoring and thresholds to decide when action is needed; prevention to keep pests from establishing; biological and cultural controls using natural enemies and cultural practices to suppress pests; and selective pesticide use as a careful, last-resort option that minimizes harm to non-target organisms. The other options fall short because they either omit the combined biological and cultural controls, emphasize broad-spectrum or pesticide-only approaches, or reduce the concept to thresholds or economic terms without the full set of components.