BMP Integrated Pest Management Vocab

Question 1

Abiotic

Answer 1

Non-living

Question 2

Action Threshold

Answer 2

Pest population or plant damage level that requires action to prevent irreversible or unacceptable physiological and or aesthetic harm

Question 3

Allelopathy

Answer 3

Chemical effect or inhibition of growth or development of plants that is induced by allelochemicals

Question 4

Biological control

Answer 4

Approach for managing pests using predators, parasites (parasitoids), or pathogens to suppress pest populations

Question 5

Biorational Pesticide

Answer 5

Pesticide formulated from naturally occurring plant extracts, microbes, or microbial by products that poses very low risk to non target organisms.

Pesticides that has limited environmental persistence and poses very low risk to non target organisms

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Biotic

Answer 6

Pertaining to non-human living organisms

Question 7

Broad Spectrum pesticide

Answer 7

Pesticide that kills a large number of unrelated species

Question 8

Chemical Control

Answer 8

Approach for managing pests using pesticides

Question 9

Contact Pesticide

Answer 9

Material that causes pest injury or death on contact or by contact with treated surfaces

Question 10

Cover Spraying

Answer 10

Improper approach to pest management in which all landscape plants are treated with broad spectrum pesticides with no regard to pest identity or plant injury potential.

Question 11

Cultural Control

Answer 11

Approach for managing pests using either physical manipulation of the landscape or mechanical devices that alter pest activity, reproduction or survival

Question 12

Diagnosis

Answer 12

Process of identifying the causative agent(s) of a plant disorder by analyzing signs, symptoms, site conditions, patterns, climate, cultural history, and other factors

Question 13

Frass

Answer 13

Fecal material and/or wood shavings produced by insects

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Honeydew

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Sugar rich excretion of sucking insects including aphids, soft scales, mealy bugs, white flies that supports the growth of a black fungus called sooty mold

Question 15

Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

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A sustainable approach to managing pests by combining biological, cultural, physical, and chemical tactics, in a way that minimizes health, environmental, and economic risks. Choice of tactics is based on effectiveness, environmental impact, site characteristics, safety, ergonomics, and client expectations and preferences.

Question 16

Key Pest

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Organism that is frequently encountered in landscapes and predictably causes injury to plants

Question 17

Key Plant

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1 a plant that frequently experiences unacceptable pest damage.

2 a plant of value to the client

Question 18

Monitoring

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A systematic inspection of the managed landscapes conducted at regular intervals to determine the types of pests, their numbers, the amount of damage caused by pests, the presence of beneficial organisms, and the effectiveness of treatments.

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Narrow-Spectrum Pesticide

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Pesticide that kills a single species or limited number of closely related species

Question 20

Natural Enemy

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Predator, parasitoid, or pathogen that targets an organism

Question 21

Pest

Answer 21

Living organism, including vertebrate, insect, mite, fungus, bacteria, virus, nematode, or undesirable plant, that interferes with or threatens plant health, aesthetics, or causes inconvenience

Question 22

Pest eradication

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An approach to pest management that entails total removal of a species from a particular area

Question 23

Pest Prevention

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An approach to pest management that encourages favorable plant development conditions and discourages favorable pest development conditions.

Question 24

Pest Resistance

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1 in plants, the ability to resist pest infestation or infection

2 in pests, the genetically acquired ability of an organism to survive a pesticide application at doses that once killed most individuals of the same species.

Question 25

Pest Resurgence

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Increase in a primary pest population following a reduction in the population of its natural enemies due to broad-spectrum pesticide application

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Pest Suppression

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An approach to pest management that reduces the pest population and associated plant injury to a tolerable level

Question 27

Pesticide

Answer 27

Any chemical used to manage or kill unwanted organisms such as weeds, insects, or fungi

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Phenology Calendar

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A calendar that correlates pest activity or development with readily observable, seasonal events such as plant budding, flowering, or fruiting.

Question 29

Phytotoxicity

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The ability of a chemical treatment to cause plant injury

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Plant Health Care (PHC)

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Comprehensive program to manage the health, structure, and appearance of plants in the landscape

Question 31

Sanitation

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Cultural practice of removing dead, infested, or diseased plant parts to prevent or manage pest problems

Question 32

Sign

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Physical evidence of a casual agent (e.g. insect eggs, borer hole, frass) (contrast with symptom)

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Secondary pest outbreak

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Increase in a secondary pest population following a reduction in the population of its natural enemies due to broad-spect pesticide application.

Question 34

Symptom

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Non specific response of a plant, such as leaf discoloration, or tissue distortion, caused by biotic or abiotic factors that alter normal growth and development (contrast with sign)

Question 35

Systemic Pesticide

Answer 35

Pesticide that is distributed throughout the plant by the vascular system following application to the foliage, stem, or soil