Illinois Pesticide Applicator Test questions with verified || || || || || || ||
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Federal insecticide, fungicide, and rodenticide act (FIFRA) - ✔✔Approved in 1947. It
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provides a framework for pesticide registrations an is the pesticide users assurance that the
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product, if used correctly will provide some helpful service without endangering the user,
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other persons, or the environment
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Economic Injury Level - ✔✔break- even point at which the cost of pest control equals the
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revenue loss caused by a pest. || || || || ||
Aesthetic Injury Level - ✔✔number of pests that might cause enough damage to the
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appearance of a plant to warrant the cost of control || || || || || || || || ||
Scouting - ✔✔Regularly monitoring pest populations and plant or crop conditions. Could
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be the owner, maintenance technician, or grower.
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What is the Goal of IPM? - ✔✔To optimize, NOT maximize pest control
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Pest - ✔✔any insect, mite, rodent, nematode, fungus, weed, or other organism that is
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injurious to humans or their structures, or to plants, or animals of interest to humans.
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5 Control Methods - ✔✔Cultural Control, Mechanical Control, Biological Control,
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Preventative Control, Chemical control || || ||
Cultural control - ✔✔improves plant health so that they plants are able to compete better
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against pests. EX: soil preparation, fertility, proper planting, plant selection, crop rotation,
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mulching, mowing ||
, Mechanical control - ✔✔Physically eliminates the pest. EX: Cultivating, pruning, hoeing,
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weed pulling, mowing, hand picking
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Biological control - ✔✔Uses living organisms to reduce pest populations to economically
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acceptable levels. EX: predators, parasites, pest diseases
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preventative control - ✔✔Helps prevent the entry and spread of pests. EX: quarantines,
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inspections, certified seed || ||
chemical control - ✔✔Herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, repellents, fumigants
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Pesticide - ✔✔any chemical used to destroy, prevent, or control any form of like declared to
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be a pest
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Two general types of ingredients - ✔✔Active, Inert
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Active ingredient - ✔✔part of the formulation that is effective against the targeted pest
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Inert ingredient - ✔✔does not have a direct effect on the pest
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Adjuvants - ✔✔chemical that modifies a pesticide's physical properties and/ or enhances its
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performance
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emulsions - ✔✔mixtures in which one liquid is suspended as tiny drops in another liquid.
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detailed answers ||
Federal insecticide, fungicide, and rodenticide act (FIFRA) - ✔✔Approved in 1947. It
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provides a framework for pesticide registrations an is the pesticide users assurance that the
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product, if used correctly will provide some helpful service without endangering the user,
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other persons, or the environment
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Economic Injury Level - ✔✔break- even point at which the cost of pest control equals the
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revenue loss caused by a pest. || || || || ||
Aesthetic Injury Level - ✔✔number of pests that might cause enough damage to the
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appearance of a plant to warrant the cost of control || || || || || || || || ||
Scouting - ✔✔Regularly monitoring pest populations and plant or crop conditions. Could
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be the owner, maintenance technician, or grower.
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What is the Goal of IPM? - ✔✔To optimize, NOT maximize pest control
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Pest - ✔✔any insect, mite, rodent, nematode, fungus, weed, or other organism that is
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injurious to humans or their structures, or to plants, or animals of interest to humans.
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5 Control Methods - ✔✔Cultural Control, Mechanical Control, Biological Control,
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Preventative Control, Chemical control || || ||
Cultural control - ✔✔improves plant health so that they plants are able to compete better
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against pests. EX: soil preparation, fertility, proper planting, plant selection, crop rotation,
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mulching, mowing ||
, Mechanical control - ✔✔Physically eliminates the pest. EX: Cultivating, pruning, hoeing,
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weed pulling, mowing, hand picking
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Biological control - ✔✔Uses living organisms to reduce pest populations to economically
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acceptable levels. EX: predators, parasites, pest diseases
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preventative control - ✔✔Helps prevent the entry and spread of pests. EX: quarantines,
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inspections, certified seed || ||
chemical control - ✔✔Herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, repellents, fumigants
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Pesticide - ✔✔any chemical used to destroy, prevent, or control any form of like declared to
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be a pest
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Two general types of ingredients - ✔✔Active, Inert
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Active ingredient - ✔✔part of the formulation that is effective against the targeted pest
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Inert ingredient - ✔✔does not have a direct effect on the pest
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Adjuvants - ✔✔chemical that modifies a pesticide's physical properties and/ or enhances its
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performance
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emulsions - ✔✔mixtures in which one liquid is suspended as tiny drops in another liquid.
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