Chapter 7: Pest Management

Question 1

What is IPM?

Answer 1

Integrated Pest Management. Decision making process that aims to prevent pests from becoming problems, and to determine what actions to take if pests occur.

Question 2

What are the 6 elements in IPM?

Answer 2

-Prevent organisms from becoming a problem
-Identifying pest and beneficial species
-Monitor pest populations, damages and environmental conditions
- Using injury and action thresholds
- treatments that combine methods (Phys, mechanical, behavior, chem, bio)
-Evaluating the effects and efficacy

Question 3

What is Biological Pest Control?

Answer 3

Is an attempt to use natural enemies of those organisms that becomes pest.

Question 4

Difference between Classical biological control and Inundative biological control?

Answer 4

Classical involves introduction of non native organisms. Inundative is introducing natural predators, parasites etc.

Question 5

What is Cultural Control?

Answer 5

Manipulating the environment which makes it less favourable to the pests

Question 6

What are some preventive measures with IPM?

Answer 6

using weed free seed. identifying pest problems early. Eliminating hosts for diseases. Using crop rotations. Time operations to avoid pest activity (seeding/ calving date)

Question 7

What are some physical control measures?

Answer 7

Hand pulling weeds, trapping, mowing, early swathing, tillage, using livestock to graze weeds, rotational grazing to reduce weed problems.

Question 8

Difference between foliar and soil applied herbicide?

Answer 8

Foliar - applied to existing vegetation and acts on leaves and stems. Can be contact or systemic.
Soil - applied to soil to control germinating seeds or growing plants. EX. Avadex, Focus.