Pest Control
This is the term used for the level of loss that pest damage is greater than the cost applied to use IPM practices.
What is economic threshold level?
This is the only insect to pollinate red clover.
What is the bumblebee?
The name given to anything used to control pests
What is a pesticide?
This bug is known to transmit Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
What is the tick?
This is the type of herbicide that only kills targeted plants.
What is selective herbicide?
This is the term for the chemical application that's applied after the plant surfaces above the ground level.
What is postemergence?
This bug is beneficial by feeding on other crop pests has 12 black spots and feeds on aphids.
What is the convergent lady beetle?
The name given to control rodents
What is rodenticide?
This pest is a grass feeder, found feeding on the leaves and stems of plants during the day, found in the late summer.
What is the grasshopper?
This is a plant that completes its life cycle in two growing seasons.
What is a biennial?
This is the pest control method that destroys ALL hosts and/or pests.
What is eradication?
This guy is found near water, hard to catch, feeds on other pests, and can fly up to 35 mph.
What is the dragonfly?
The name given to control insects.
What is insecticide?
This pest feeds on livestock, other animals (especially pets) and sometimes humans and has large hind legs which allow it to jump from one species to another.
What is the flea?
This term means living without oxygen.
What is abiotic?
This is the term used for complete isolation of a plant from a pest or disease.
What is quarantine?
This guy is the official mascot of IPM.
What is the scout cat?
The name given to control nematodes.
What is nematicide?
This pest has a painful bite and is identified by its 15 pairs of legs and fangs.
What is the centipede?
These are plant hormones that stimulate cell division.
What are cytokinins?
This control method requires physical/human means of stopping the pest.
What is mechanical control?
This pest feeds on other crop pests and is twice the size of his black ant cousin.
What is the carpenter ant?
The name given to control weeds.
What is herbicide?
This pest sucks nectar from plants and feeds off the sweat of humans.
What is the swallowtail butterfly?
These are microscopic roundworms that feed on plant roots.
What are nematodes?