Terms to Know
What term is defined by "one of the three primary pest control goals that strives to inhibit the onset of a pest outbreak"?
What is prevention?
What crop was ruined by a pest in the 19th century and led to the starvation of nearly a million people?
What is a potato?
Biological control is often directed against pests that are __________________________________.
What is not native to a geographical area?
What is the first step in an IPM plan?
What is pest identification?
Using barriers to prevent pests from getting into an area is an example of which type of pest management method?
What term is defined by "the level where the economic losses caused by pest damage, if the pest population continued to grow, would be greater than the cost of controlling the pest"?
What is an economic threshold?
What were the first pests to cause a major impact on humans in the 14th century?
What are rat fleas?
What device can be used in mechanical control to control weeds?
What are plows, disks, mowers, cultivators, and/or bed conditioners?
What is the second step in the IPM process and what is an example of it being executed?
What is monitoring? What is scouting and/or trapping?
What is the term that identifies a pest that causes major damage on a regular basis?
What is a key pest?
What term is defined by "how the pesticide works- specific system(s) in the pest that are affected by the pesticide"?
What is the mode of action?
What was the disease that killed a third of the population in Europe in the 14th century?
What is the black plague of Europe? Or what is bubonic plague?
What type of control has a goal of altering the environmental conditions of the host plant/site, or the behavior of the pest to prevent an infestation.
What is cultural control?
What would be used to correctly identify a pest?
What are physical characteristics of the pest and/or damage?
What is the process whereby some organisms accumulate chemical residues in higher concentrations than those found in the organisms they consume?
What is biomagnification?
What term is defined by "the coordinated use of pest and environmental information and available pest control methods to prevent unacceptable levels of damage by the most economical means with the least possible hazard to people, property, and the environment"?
What is integrated pest management?
What was sprayed in 1892 as an orchard spray for insect pests?
What is lead arsenate?
What are 2 benefits of chemical control?
What is effectiveness, speed, ease, and/or reasonable costs?
What are the three classifications of pests?
What are key pests, occasional pests, and secondary pests?
Which would increase the likelihood of pesticide resistance?
What is the continual use of the same pesticides from the same chemical family?
What term is defined by "any material that is applied to plants, soil, water, harvested crops, structures, clothing, and furnishings, or animals to kill, attract, repel, or regulate or interrupt the growth and mating of pests or to regulate plant growth"?
What is a pesticide?
What mixture was created in France to deter kids from picking grapes? This mixture is named the "Bordeaux mixture" after the huge fungicide success.
What is lime and copper sulfate?
Name 5 types of chemical control.
What is avicides, bactericides, fumigants, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, miticides, nematicides, ovicides, predacities, repellants, rodenticides, and/or defoliants?
What are the three primary pest control goals?
What is prevention, suppression, and eradication?
Which would be considered a preventative pest management strategy?
What is planting weed-free and disease-free seed?