Weeds Flashcards

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1
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Hairy bittercress

A

Cardimine hirsuta

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2
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Groundsel

A

Senecio vulgaris

Ephemeral
Birds eat seeds
Caterpillars of moths and butterflies
Rusts

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3
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Spotted dead nettle

A

Lamium masculatum

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4
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Couch grass

A

Elymus repens

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5
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Common ragwort

A

Senecio jacobaea

Cinnabar moth

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6
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Dandelion

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Taraxacum

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7
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Bindweed

A

Calystegia sepium

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8
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Broad leafed dock

A

Rumex obtusifolius

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9
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Chickweed

A

Stellaria media
Ephemeral
Attracts white fly

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10
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Stinging nettle

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Urtica dioica

Red admiral, peacock, small tortoiseshell

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11
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Japanese knotweed

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Raynoutria japonica

Wildlife and countryside act 1981

Environmental protection Act 1990

Antisocial behaviour, crime and policing act 2014

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12
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The weeds act 1959

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Senecio jacobaea
Cirsium arvense
Rumex crispus
Rumex obtusifolius

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13
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Acid and alkaline

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Sheep’s sorrel
Old man’s beard

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14
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Cultural

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Quarantine
Crop rotation

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15
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Biological insecticides

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Two spotted ladybird - aphids
Aphidius spp - parasitic wasp for wasps
BT - bacillus thuringiensis - bacterium which kills caterpillars

Encarsia formosa

Solanum sisymbriifolium

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16
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Chemical insecticides

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Phrethroids (2weeks)
Neonicotinoids -lily beetle, vine weevil

17
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Ground elder

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Aegopodium podagraria