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Quiz: IPM
Ans: pest control strategy that uses a combination of techniques to reduce
pest pops to economically acceptable levels. Focuses on the long-
term prevention or suppression of pest problems. uses cultural,
biological, physical, and mechanical methods in site specific
combiations. Pesticides only used when careful field moniotring, based
on economic threshold levels, indicates they are needed. Main aim is
to control only the harmful pest without affecting beneficial and non-
target organsism, human health, and the environment.
Quiz: The IPM Process
Ans: offers the pssibility of improving the efficacy of pest control programs
while reducing some of the negative effects. reduce energy and
pesticide use
Quiz: 1.Proper pest identification and field scouting is the first two
most important steps
Ans: -correct pest identity
-pest biology and life cycles
-most susceptible stage in the life of the pest
-how the pest grows under specific conditions
-how the pest survives and lives
-how the pest spreads
-what are the effects of environmental factos on the pest
-Insects and disease, what are the damage symptoms
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,-what are the natural enemies
Quiz: 2. Field scouting is a systematic sampling of the pest
populations and recording the pest
Ans: -weeds - number per given area (density) and pattern in the field
-Insects - stage or size, symptoms and level of damage on the crop and
symptoms and level of damage
-Disease-severity, symptoms and level of damage
Quiz: IPM Tactics
Ans: Prevention and control stategies
1) encouraging natural enemies of the pest
2) monitoring pest populations and other relevant factors
3) using resistant crops before pest numbers increase and cause economic
damage.
Control stategies may involve many control combinations.
Quiz: The Decision-Making Process
Ans: control action guidlines help decide whether managment actions are
needed to avoid losses from pest damage.
Quiz: Economic or aesthetic injury levels
Ans: establish the amount of pest damage that occurs from given pest
densities.
Quiz: Treatment /action threshold
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, Ans: indicate when managment actions are needed to avoid losses.
Quiz: Keeping Detailed Field Records
Ans: is a must in IPM programs
-any relevent cropping or re-vegetaon histores--variety, seeding date,
fertilization, seed treatment, tilage system
-timing and date of any pest control methods, environmenetal conditions
before, at, and after treatment
-past, present, and future re-veg practices
-any relative yield results
Quiz: Evaluating your results
Ans: regular evaluation program will help determine the susccess of pest
management srateies. what worked and what didnt
Quiz: BLM
Ans: One of the Bureau of Land Managment's highest propority is to promote
ecosystem health.
Quiz: Noxious weed
Ans: any plant designated by a Federal, State or county government as
injurious to public health, agriculture, recreation, wildlife, or property.
Quiz: Weed - Competitive, persistent and destructive
Of all plants (250,000 species) only 3% or 8000 thought to behave as
weeds
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