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How can pest identification help you develop a good pest control strategy?
- 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Identification of the pest allows you to determine basic
information about the pest, including its life cycle and the time that it is most
susceptible to being controlled.
Define "intergrated pest managment" (IPM) and list several posible control
tactics that may be used in an IPM strategy. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Integrated
pest management is the combining of appropeiate pest and their damage
to an acceptable level. Pest control tactics may include: host resistance,
biological control, cultural control, mechanical control, sanitiation, and
chemical (pesticide) control.
You applied a pesticide, but it did not control the pest. Name three resons
why yopur control effort might hasve failed. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The failure of
the pesticide to control the pest might have been caused by pest
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, resistance, choosing the wrong pesticide, misidentifying the pest, applying
the wrong amount, or applying thye pesticide incorrectly.
What can you do to keep the pests you are trying to control from becoming
resistant to the pesticides you use? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Pest resistance can
be reduced by using integrated pest management and rotating the types of
pesticides used.
Name four of the six available methods to control pests when natural
controls are not sufficient. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The six pest control methods
include: host resistance, biological control, cultural control, mechanical
control, sanitation, and chemical control.
Name the four factors that affect pesticide ise outdoors. - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Pestiucide use outdoors is affected by soil factors, surface moisture,
humidity and temperature, and wind.
What is the best control method for controlling plant diseases? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔At present, prevention is the only plant disease control
measure. Once a palnt is infected, few control methods are effective,
including pesticides.
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