MN PESTICIDE APPLICATOR PRACTICE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FULL STUDY
PACKAGE
●● aesthetic injury level
Answer: The number of pests that cause enough damage to the
appearance of a plant to warrant the cost of control.
●● scouting
Answer: The owner, grower, maintenance technician, or a hired
individual who regularly monitors pest populations and plant or crop
conditions.
●● Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Answer: An approach to plant protection that is recommended for
efficient pest control with minimal environmental impact
●● cultural control
Answer: improves crop health in order to make the crop better able to
compete against pests.
examples: mulches-to control weeds, smother crops-to control weeds
growing in oats, grass or ground cover, crop rotation,
selecting resistant plants, soil preparation
,●● mechanical control
Answer: physically eliminates the pest
-handpulling, hoeing, rotary hoeing, cultivating, mowing and aquatic
weed harvesting, pruning
●● biological control
Answer: uses living organisms to reduce pest populations to
economically acceptable levels
-predators, parasites, pest diseases
●● Preventive control
Answer: helps prevent the entry and spread of pests
-quarantines, inspections, certified seed, cleaning equipment, controlling
before seed production, nutrient control
●● chemical control
Answer: Use of pesticides or herbicides to manage an unwanted
organism(s)
-herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, repellents, fumigants
●● pests
, Answer: insects and other animals, weeds, and diseases that may
negatively impact a human goal
●● Proleg
Answer: False leg; any appendage that serves the purpose of a leg, as
with the abdominal "legs" of caterpillars and sawflies.
●● incomplete development/simple metamorphosis
Answer: Insects with 3 life stages
-egg, nymph, adult
●● complete development
Answer: Insects with 4 life stages
-egg, larva, pupa, adult
●● Auricles
Answer: earlike extensions from the base of the leaf base blade around
the shoot
●● rhizome
Answer: creeping underground stem
●● stolon
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FULL STUDY
PACKAGE
●● aesthetic injury level
Answer: The number of pests that cause enough damage to the
appearance of a plant to warrant the cost of control.
●● scouting
Answer: The owner, grower, maintenance technician, or a hired
individual who regularly monitors pest populations and plant or crop
conditions.
●● Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Answer: An approach to plant protection that is recommended for
efficient pest control with minimal environmental impact
●● cultural control
Answer: improves crop health in order to make the crop better able to
compete against pests.
examples: mulches-to control weeds, smother crops-to control weeds
growing in oats, grass or ground cover, crop rotation,
selecting resistant plants, soil preparation
,●● mechanical control
Answer: physically eliminates the pest
-handpulling, hoeing, rotary hoeing, cultivating, mowing and aquatic
weed harvesting, pruning
●● biological control
Answer: uses living organisms to reduce pest populations to
economically acceptable levels
-predators, parasites, pest diseases
●● Preventive control
Answer: helps prevent the entry and spread of pests
-quarantines, inspections, certified seed, cleaning equipment, controlling
before seed production, nutrient control
●● chemical control
Answer: Use of pesticides or herbicides to manage an unwanted
organism(s)
-herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, repellents, fumigants
●● pests
, Answer: insects and other animals, weeds, and diseases that may
negatively impact a human goal
●● Proleg
Answer: False leg; any appendage that serves the purpose of a leg, as
with the abdominal "legs" of caterpillars and sawflies.
●● incomplete development/simple metamorphosis
Answer: Insects with 3 life stages
-egg, nymph, adult
●● complete development
Answer: Insects with 4 life stages
-egg, larva, pupa, adult
●● Auricles
Answer: earlike extensions from the base of the leaf base blade around
the shoot
●● rhizome
Answer: creeping underground stem
●● stolon
