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Chemical Control
Advantages and Limitations of Control Methods
Mode of Action
Methods of Insecticide Application
100
I teach people about insects
What is Entomology Instructor?
100
Consists of Carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
What is Organic?
100
Results are immediate and noticeable
What is Physical and mechanical?
100
Once an insect come in contact with the poison, it dies.
What is contact?
100
Applied before the crops or weeds emerge
What is pre-emergence?
200
I need to know about insects to treat animals
What is Vet Entomologist?
200
Made from minerals that do not break down easily in the environment
What is inorganic?
200
Extremely dangerous to people
What is chemical?
200
Gases that kill when inhaled or absorbed by the insect
What is fumigants?
200
Applied uniformly to an entire, specific area
What is broadcast?
300
I need to know about insects to keep them out of food
What is a food scientist?
300
Made from plants
What is botanical?
300
Works with the insect's natural enemies and environment
What is Biological?
300
Make the insect unable to reproduce
What is sterilants?
300
Saturating the soil with an insecticide or the oral treatment of an animal with a liquid insecticide
What is drench?
400
I kill insects
What is pesticide applicator or exterminator?
400
Infects insects with diseases
What is bacterial?
400
Not expensive, not intensive labor, and no special machinery or equipment
What is cultural control?
400
Kill a particular type of insect without harming other insects
What is selective insecticide?
400
Applying insecticide to the leaves of plants
What is foliar?
500
I study insects to know who to treat humans
What is medical entomologist?
500
Used to kill one kind of insect
What is bacterial?
500
Only requires a general knowledge of the insect's life and responses to the environment
What is chemical control?
500
These are applied to the animal or plant on which the insects are feeding. Once the insect feeds on the treated host, they die.
What is systemic?
500
Poured along the midline of the back of livestock
What is Pour-on?