Invertebrates
Ecology
Control Methods
Pesticides
Random
100
This group of creatures has three distinct body regions
What is insects?
100
The scientific study of organisms and the environment
What is ecology?
100
The use of pesticides to kill or control pest problems.
What is chemical control?
100
This process involves the company that creates a pesticide to legally market it in the United States.
What is pesticide registration?
100
The size of an acre in square feet
43,560
200
This group has eight legs
What are arachnids?
200
Specific organisms such as a single lady beetle that make up a larger population.
What are individuals?
200
Changing planting dates to avoid a pest problem.
What is cultural control?
200
This is the name of the end product of how the pesticide is sold, in its container.
What is a formulation?
200
The width of a lettuce bed (center to center)
42 inches
300
Butterflies have this appendage to drink nectar.
What is siphoning mouth part?
300
A group of individuals of the same species that occupy a certain space and have unique characteristics.
What is a population?
300
Uses machinery, tools, traps, and other means to prevent or control pests.
What is physical control?
300
This adjuvant product is used to ensure that the product spreads evenly over the leaves of the plant.
What is a spreader or wetting agent?
300
This state has its own pesticide regulation component (and also the highest taxes in the nation)
What is California?
400
What mouthpart causes this damage?
What is chewing/crushing mouth part?
400
A community of all organisms and nonliving components.
What is an ecosystem?
400
The point where pesticide applications are warranted to control pest problems in crops
What is the economic threshold?
400
These two methods can be used to clean pesticide containers after the product has been added to the spray tank.
What are pressure and triple rinse methods?
400
The three Cs of spill management
What is control, contain, clean?
500
What mouth part causes this damage?
What is piercing sucking mouth part?
500
A population that is adapted to live locally in a certain habitat.
What is an ecoytype?
500
This control method has the drawbacks of being expensive, slow acting, and rarely relieves the problem on its own.
What is biological control?
500
This amount of time is used to indicate when it is safe to enter the field after pesticide has been applied
What is restricted entry interval?
500
This creature is a caterpillar, but certain farmers and agriculture professors also call it another name.
What is a worm?