Right-of-Way Pest Management
(Category 6)
Why should you monitor your control strategies? What information should be recorded?
- ✔️✔️Controls should be recorded and evaluated so that adjustments can be made
when necessary.
Records should include: control measures, and the starting date for each. Rate for any
pesticides that were applied. Identification of equipment and crew. Environmental
conditions. Evaluation of effectiveness. Problems encountered or complaints reported.
Any damage claims.
List the four categories of control methods and briefly explain each. - ✔️✔️-Biological:
Focuses on enhancing the effects of natural enemies of pests.
-Cultural: Creates. optimal growing conditions for the pests you want to preserve, or
unfavorable conditions for the pests.
Mechanical: May be mechanical or manual removal (cutting, etc.) ]
Chemical: Use herbicides and or Pesticides
how does shading work as a cultural control? where is it often used? - ✔️✔️Works to
block sunlight from unwanted plants to keep them from growing. Often used in aquatic
ecosystems to control weeds by shading them with black plastic, adding dye to the
water, or other methods of blocking sunlight.
How have public attitudes changed about vegetation and its control in right-of-ways? -
✔️✔️Now only certain plant species are considered undesirable- as in the past ALL
woody vegetation was considered undesirable. So now, others are usually left on the
right-of-way for other benefits.
________ is the use of available tactics or strategies to manage pests so that
acceptable control can be achieved. - ✔️✔️IPM (Integrated Pest Management)
why must weeds and woody plants be managed on rights-of-way? - ✔️✔️For safety,
access to facilities, decrease maintenance costs, reliability of service, and for other
benefits like aesthetics, wildlife, and environmental protection
True or False: The first component of an effective pest management program is pest
identification - ✔️✔️True
, When identifying a pest, what other information should be collected about the pest? -
✔️✔️Pest life cycles, physiology, reproductive potential, and the past control results
List several examples of different sites that might have site specific requirements -
✔️✔️-Urban, suburban, or rural areas
-Dry upland or lowland and wetland areas
-Popular tourist, scenic areas, or recreational areas
-Wildlife habitat such as. critical nesting habitat or winter feeding grounds
Why is it important to protect wetlands? - ✔️✔️-Because they are declining
-They are valuable ecosystems
-They protect wildlife
-They minimize bank and shoreline erosion
-They Improve water quality
-They Provide recreational activities
-They act as water storage during flooding
List four stages of weed development and briefly describe each. - ✔️✔️Seedling -
small, vulnerable plantlets
Vegetative - rapid growth producing stems, roots, and foliage, uptake of water and
nutrients is rapid
Seed production - energy directed toward production of seed, uptake of water and
nutrient is slow and directed towards flower, fruit, and seed structure
Maturity - little or no energy production or movement of water and nutrients
List the three plant types and briefly describe each. - ✔️✔️Annuals - grow from seed,
mature, and produce seed in one year or less
Biennials - plants with two-year life cycle
Perennials - plants that live more than two years and may live indefinitely
Monocot vs. dicot plant - ✔️✔️Monocot - only have one leaf
Dicot - have two leaves when they emerge from the seed
True or false: Grasses may be annual or perennial. - ✔️✔️True
How does a sedge differ from a grass? - ✔️✔️Sedges have triangular stems and three
rows of leaves, while grasses only have one leaf.
(Category 6)
Why should you monitor your control strategies? What information should be recorded?
- ✔️✔️Controls should be recorded and evaluated so that adjustments can be made
when necessary.
Records should include: control measures, and the starting date for each. Rate for any
pesticides that were applied. Identification of equipment and crew. Environmental
conditions. Evaluation of effectiveness. Problems encountered or complaints reported.
Any damage claims.
List the four categories of control methods and briefly explain each. - ✔️✔️-Biological:
Focuses on enhancing the effects of natural enemies of pests.
-Cultural: Creates. optimal growing conditions for the pests you want to preserve, or
unfavorable conditions for the pests.
Mechanical: May be mechanical or manual removal (cutting, etc.) ]
Chemical: Use herbicides and or Pesticides
how does shading work as a cultural control? where is it often used? - ✔️✔️Works to
block sunlight from unwanted plants to keep them from growing. Often used in aquatic
ecosystems to control weeds by shading them with black plastic, adding dye to the
water, or other methods of blocking sunlight.
How have public attitudes changed about vegetation and its control in right-of-ways? -
✔️✔️Now only certain plant species are considered undesirable- as in the past ALL
woody vegetation was considered undesirable. So now, others are usually left on the
right-of-way for other benefits.
________ is the use of available tactics or strategies to manage pests so that
acceptable control can be achieved. - ✔️✔️IPM (Integrated Pest Management)
why must weeds and woody plants be managed on rights-of-way? - ✔️✔️For safety,
access to facilities, decrease maintenance costs, reliability of service, and for other
benefits like aesthetics, wildlife, and environmental protection
True or False: The first component of an effective pest management program is pest
identification - ✔️✔️True
, When identifying a pest, what other information should be collected about the pest? -
✔️✔️Pest life cycles, physiology, reproductive potential, and the past control results
List several examples of different sites that might have site specific requirements -
✔️✔️-Urban, suburban, or rural areas
-Dry upland or lowland and wetland areas
-Popular tourist, scenic areas, or recreational areas
-Wildlife habitat such as. critical nesting habitat or winter feeding grounds
Why is it important to protect wetlands? - ✔️✔️-Because they are declining
-They are valuable ecosystems
-They protect wildlife
-They minimize bank and shoreline erosion
-They Improve water quality
-They Provide recreational activities
-They act as water storage during flooding
List four stages of weed development and briefly describe each. - ✔️✔️Seedling -
small, vulnerable plantlets
Vegetative - rapid growth producing stems, roots, and foliage, uptake of water and
nutrients is rapid
Seed production - energy directed toward production of seed, uptake of water and
nutrient is slow and directed towards flower, fruit, and seed structure
Maturity - little or no energy production or movement of water and nutrients
List the three plant types and briefly describe each. - ✔️✔️Annuals - grow from seed,
mature, and produce seed in one year or less
Biennials - plants with two-year life cycle
Perennials - plants that live more than two years and may live indefinitely
Monocot vs. dicot plant - ✔️✔️Monocot - only have one leaf
Dicot - have two leaves when they emerge from the seed
True or false: Grasses may be annual or perennial. - ✔️✔️True
How does a sedge differ from a grass? - ✔️✔️Sedges have triangular stems and three
rows of leaves, while grasses only have one leaf.
