Pest Management

Question 1

What is a Pest

Answer 1

A pest is an undesirable organism that injures humans, desirable plants and animals, manufactured products, or natural substances.

Question 2

Abiotic factors

Answer 2

Natural control measures within the environment that injure or destroy plants and animals, including pests.

Question 3

Types of Abiotic Factors

Answer 3

Climatic factors ( wind, temperature, sunshine, and rain) air or water pollution and topographic features (rivers, lakes and mountains) that can affect pest movements.

Question 4

What are the Applies Controls

Answer 4

Biological, Chemical, Cultural, Genetic, Mechanical/Physical, and Regulatory.

Question 5

Biological Control is

Answer 5

The use of natural enemies (predators, parasites, pathogens, and competitors) to control pests and their damage.

Question 6

What is Chemical Control

Answer 6

Pest management method that involves using naturally derived and /or synthetic chemicals to manage pests.

Question 7

Pesticide

Answer 7

Any material that is applied to plants, soil, water, harvested crops, structures, clothing to attract, repel, or regulate or interrupt the growth and mating of pastes or to regulate plant growth.

Question 8

Mode of Action

Answer 8

How they kill the pest.

Question 9

Site of Action

Answer 9

Specific biological system affected within the pest.

Question 10

Selective pesticide

Answer 10

Are toxic to some pests but have little or no effect on others.

Question 11

Systemic pesticides

Answer 11

Absorbed and transported within a plant or animal.

Question 12

Contact pesticides

Answer 12

Directly touch the pest or a site the pest frequents.

Question 13

Persistence

Answer 13

How long they remain active to control pests

Question 14

Cultural Control

Answer 14

Practices that reduce pest establishment, reproduction, dispersal, and survival.

Question 15

Genetic Control

Answer 15

Plants and animals bred or selected to resist specific pest problems.

Question 16

Mechanical/Physical Control

Answer 16

Kills a pest directly or makes its environment unsuitable.

Question 17

Two types of regulatory Control

Answer 17

Quarantine & Eradication

Question 18

IPM is what?

Answer 18

Integrated Pest Management

Question 19

IPM

Answer 19

A balanced, tactical approach to pest control.

Question 20

Components of IPM

Answer 20

1. Identify the pest & understand its biology
2. Monitor target pest
3. Develop the pest management goal
4. Implement the integrated pest management program

Question 21

Types of Pests

Answer 21

1. Key
2. Secondary
3. Occasional

Question 22

Key pest

Answer 22

Cause major damage

Question 23

Secondary pests

Answer 23

Become a problem when key pests is controlled or absent

Question 24

Occasional Pest

Answer 24

Become trouble only in a while due to their life cycles

Question 25

What is Economic threshold (ET)

Answer 25

The pest population density (number of pests per unit area) at which control measures are needed to prevent the pest from reaching the economic injury level.

Question 26

What is Economic injury lever (EIL)

Answer 26

Pest population density that causes losses equal to the cost of control measures.

Question 27

To justify using a control measures, what must ET be below

Answer 27

Economic injury level (EIL)

Question 28

Action threshold for pest may be ____________?

Answer 28

zero

Question 29

Pest management Goal

Answer 29

Keep pest damage at economically or aesthetically acceptable levels.

Question 30

Three effective IPM management goal

Answer 30

1. Prevention
2. Suppression
3. Eradication

Question 31

Stage 4 of IPM

Answer 31

Implement the integrated pest management program.

Question 32

Stage 5 of IPM

Answer 32

Record and evaluate results

Question 33

Why pesticide applications fail

Answer 33

1. Dosage
2. Correct use
3. Application timing
4. Application equipment
5. Environmental conditions
6. Pesticide degradation
7. Pesticide Resistance