ILLINOIS GENERAL STANDARDS PESTICIDE EXAM Correctly Answered 2024/2025

ILLINOIS GENERAL STANDARDS PESTICIDE EXAM Correctly Answered 2024 Pest - Answer -any insect, mite, rodent, weed, disease etc that is injurious to the health of humans, animals, plants, or the environment Goal of IPM - Answer -keep pests below economic and aesthetic injury level, avoid adverse effects on humans, wildlife, environment economic injury level - Answer -breakeven point at which cost of pest control equals revenue loss caused by pest economic threshold level - Answer -number of pests per plant or amount of damage to plant at which control measures should begin aesthetic injury level - Answer -number of pests that might cause enough damage to the appearance of a plant to warrant cost of control - might vary key to successful IPM - Answer -monitoring pest pop and plant conditions cultural control - Answer -improve crop health mechanical control - Answer -physical pest elimination biological control - Answer -living organisms reduce pests chemical control - Answer -chemical agents reduce pests preventative control - Answer -prevent entry and spread pesticide failure - Answer -wrong type, wrong pest stage, wrong area, pest resistance insects - Answer -exoskeleton, 3 pairs jointed legs, 3 body region insect body regions - Answer -head, thorax, abdomen incomplete development - Answer -3 life stages - eggs, nymph, adult complete development - Answer -4 life stages - egg, larvae, pupae, adult mites - Answer -spider-like, 4 pairs of legs spiders - Answer -4 pairs of legs, 2 body regionscrustaceans - Answer -7 pairs of legs ex) pillbugs birds - Answer -all protected except non-native ex) starlings, house sparrows mammals - Answer -protected except rats, mice, ground squirrels noninfectious disease - Answer -cannot be transferred pest to pest or plant to plant, often result of unfavorable conditions infectious disease - Answer -multiply within host, transferable chlorosis - Answer -yellowing of leaves Mosiac - Answer -green and yellow patching gall - Answer -abnormal swelling infectious disease development elements - Answer -susceptible host, plant pathogen, environment, time weeds - Answer -any plant growing where is is unwanted noxious - Answer -declared by law, must be controlled ragweed, marijuana, thistle, john songrass - Answer -noxious weeds exotic - Answer -unlawful to sell, buy, plant honeysuckle, buckthorn - Answer -exotic weeds 3 types of weeds - Answer -grasses, grass-like, broadleaf grass/grass-like - Answer -parallel veins broadleaf weeds - Answer -net-veined, less elongated annual weeds - Answer -life cycle 1 year biennial weeds - Answer -2 year life cycle perennial weeds - Answer -2+ year lifespan What type of weed germinates in the spring, develops a root system and low growing cluster of leaves called a rosette? - Answer -a biennial weed pesticide - Answer -Any chemical used to destroy, prevent or control any form of life declared as a pest active ingredient - Answer -The chemical effective against the pest inert ingredients - Answer -don't directly harm pests, increase effectiveness of active ingredientdry formulations - Answer -SP, WP, P, DF, WDG, G, P, PS, D soluble powder - Answer -SP SP - Answer -mixed with water, form solution Wettable powders - Answer -WP