Pests + Insecticides Flashcards

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Complete Metamorphosis

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Egg - larva - pupa - adult

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2
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Incomplete metamorphosis

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Egg - nymph - adult
Sometimes adult to nymph

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3
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Aphid predators

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Lady bird (not mealey)
Hoverfly
Parasitic wasp
Parasitic fungus
Lacewing

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4
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5 chemical insecticide groups with example

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Organophosphate - Nemathorin
Carbamate - Aphox
Pyrethrproid - Hallmark
Neonicotinoids - Insyst/Gazelle
Diamide - Minecto One + Verimark

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5
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Insecticide modes of action

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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

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6
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Insecticide resistance

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Myzus: MACE (carbamates) Kdr (Pyrethroids)
Pyrethroid resistance: flea beetle, pollen beetle, pea bean weevil, DBM, whitefly, onion thrip

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7
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Cabbage root fly control

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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)

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8
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Aphids on brassicas

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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)

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9
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Caterpillars brassicas

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DBM, Silver Y, small white
Pheromone trap + crop walking
Verimark/tracer drenches
Minecto One, Rumo, Dipel, Pyrethroid (watch for resistance)

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10
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Pollen beetle brassicas

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On cauli + broc
Minecto One, Rumo, Pyrethroid (resistance)

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11
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Flea beetle brassicas

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Drilled crops
Verimark, minecto one

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12
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Whitefly/thrips/swede midge brassicas

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Movento (whitefly)
Minecto one (thrips)
Gazelle (swede midge)

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13
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Slug control

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Stronger varieties
Ferric phosphate
Nemslug

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14
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Potato Cyst Nematode

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Pallida (white cysts) Rostochiensis (yellow cysts)
Pallida slower decline between crops, longer hatch period, fewer resistant varieties

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15
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PCN soil test + control

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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

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16
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Aphids potatoes

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Myzus, potato
Leaf roll virus, virus Y
Traps + crop walking
Insyst (not after 31/7)
Teppeki (not on ware)
Movento (not during flowering)
On seed apply from emergence to haulm death
On ware threshold 5-10/compound leaf

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Wireworm

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After grass up to 4 years, edge of field
Bait traps, site selection, lift early, nemathorin some control (incorporated pre planting)

18
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FLN

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Transmit TRV
Light land
Nemathorin/Velum prime
Spraing resistance varieties

19
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Stem Nematode + FLN
onions + leeks

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In soil for 10 years
Soil test
Rotation, site selection, use sets, good hygiene
Nemguard in furrow

20
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Thrips onions + leeks

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Dry, July/August (cereal harvest)
Sticky trap, crop walking
Irrigation, predators
Resistant to pyrethroids + tracer
Eradicoat, flipper, minecto one (onions), movento (onions)

21
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Onion Bean seed fly

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Eggs on soil, burries into bulb
Force EA on bulb onions

22
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Cutworm

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May-July
Irrigate
Decis (Alliums) Hallmark (Carrots) according to traps (for turnip moth)

23
Q

FLN carrots + parsnips

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Fanging + root damage
Previous history, cultivations
Velum prime
Nemguard

24
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Carrot fly

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Eggs on soil
2 gens often 3 from mid april
High risk = close to other carrot o celery fields, small sheltered fields
Avoid planting close to same crop, avoid planting headlands, early lifting, online forecast + sticky trip
Hallmark + minecto one adults
Decis/coragen EAMU

25
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Carrot willow aphid

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Carrot Motley Dwarf, Parsnip Yellow Fleck
Spray when found - Movento, Gazelle, Teppeki

26
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Aphids Lettuce

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Nasanovia, Myzus, Black Bean
Contaminant + Virus e.g. mosaic virus
Forecasting
Movento, Gazelle, Teppeki (applied in nursary 49 day HI), Flipper
Root aphid - resistant varieties

27
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Silver Y

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Traps
Pyrethroids, Minecto One, Steward, Tracer, Dipel

28
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Pea bean weevil + Thrips peas

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Pyrethroid e.g. Hallmark

29
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Pea Aphid

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Aphox, Teppeki

30
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Pea Moth + Silver Y Peas

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Traps
Pyrethroids
Silver Y can look like a pea

31
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3 aphicides

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Movento (lipids)
Gazelle (neonic)
Teppeki (disorientates)

32
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3 nerve acting insecticida

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Tracer
Teppeki
Steward