Pests + Insecticides Flashcards
Complete Metamorphosis
Egg - larva - pupa - adult
Incomplete metamorphosis
Egg - nymph - adult
Sometimes adult to nymph
Aphid predators
Lady bird (not mealey)
Hoverfly
Parasitic wasp
Parasitic fungus
Lacewing
5 chemical insecticide groups with example
Organophosphate - Nemathorin
Carbamate - Aphox
Pyrethrproid - Hallmark
Neonicotinoids - Insyst/Gazelle
Diamide - Minecto One + Verimark
Insecticide modes of action
ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS- organophosphates + carbamates
SODIUM CHANNEL MODULATORS - pyrethroid
SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS - indoxacarb (rumo/steward)
ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST - neonicotinoids
CHORDOTONAL ORGAN MODULATORS - teppeki
ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR ACTIVATORS - tracer
RYANODINE RECEPTOR MODULATORS - diamides
LIPID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS - movento
BIOLOGICAL - flipper, dipel
FERRIC PHOSPHATE - slugs
Insecticide resistance
Myzus: MACE (carbamates) Kdr (Pyrethroids)
Pyrethroid resistance: flea beetle, pollen beetle, pea bean weevil, DBM, whitefly, onion thrip
Cabbage root fly control
3 gens a year starting in mid April
Eggs laid on soil at first gen
Mesh
Drench (Tracer/Verimark)
Foliar (Tracer/Minecto One - not if drenched with Verimark)
Aphids on brassicas
Mealey + myzus (end of april)
First month 5% tolerance after 0
Suction, sticky traps + crop walking
Natural predators
Verimark 1st 2-4 weeks
Movento x2 (short season brassicas)
Long season follow with teppeki, gazelle, minecto one (if no Verimark drench)
Biological - flipper + eradicoat max (contact)
Caterpillars brassicas
DBM, Silver Y, small white
Pheromone trap + crop walking
Verimark/tracer drenches
Minecto One, Rumo, Dipel, Pyrethroid (watch for resistance)
Pollen beetle brassicas
On cauli + broc
Minecto One, Rumo, Pyrethroid (resistance)
Flea beetle brassicas
Drilled crops
Verimark, minecto one
Whitefly/thrips/swede midge brassicas
Movento (whitefly)
Minecto one (thrips)
Gazelle (swede midge)
Slug control
Stronger varieties
Ferric phosphate
Nemslug
Potato Cyst Nematode
Pallida (white cysts) Rostochiensis (yellow cysts)
Pallida slower decline between crops, longer hatch period, fewer resistant varieties
PCN soil test + control
49 cores per ha at 25cm in autumn
Rotation - populations decrease by 20% per year
Tolerant varieties - piper (rost) royal (pal)
Biofumigants e.g. Brown mustard
Trap crops e.g. thorny nightshade
Nematicides: 1-20 eggs/g soil, Nemathorin (17 week HI), Velum prime, nemguard