Illnois, Pesticides Applicator General standards Exam 2023 (100% Correct Answers With complete solution)

IPM - CORRECT ANSWER Integrated Pest Management; Goals are provide economical pest control/protect the environment Not The Goal Of IPM - CORRECT ANSWER Elimination of all pests Economic threshold/action threshold - CORRECT ANSWER Number of pests per plant of amount of damage to plant at which control measures should begin economic injury level - CORRECT ANSWER breakeven point which the cost of pest control equals the revenue loss caused by pest aesthetic injury level - CORRECT ANSWER number of pests that might cause enough damage to the appearance of a plant to warrant the cost of control scouting - CORRECT ANSWER key to a successful IPM program cultural control - CORRECT ANSWER improves plant health so that plants are able to compete better against pests; soil preparation, fertility, proper planting, plant selection, crop rotation mechanical control - CORRECT ANSWER physically eliminates the weed; hoeing, weed pulling, mowing, hand picking biological control - CORRECT ANSWER uses living organisms to reduce pest populations; predators, parasites, pest disease preventative control - CORRECT ANSWER helps prevent entry and spread of pests; quarantines inspections, certified seed, cleaning equipment chemical control - CORRECT ANSWER herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, repellents, fumigants insect head - CORRECT ANSWER contains sensory organs, mouth parts and brain insect thorax - CORRECT ANSWER provides locomotion, legs and wings insect abdomen - CORRECT ANSWER digestive, excretory, circulatory, respiratory, and reproductive organs prolegs - CORRECT ANSWER additional legs; caterpillars/sawfly larvae incomplete development/simple metamorphosis - CORRECT ANSWER egg, nymph, adult; stink bug, grasshopper, leafhopper complete development - CORRECT ANSWER egg, larva, pupa, adult; Japanese beetle, honey bee, mosquito noninfectious diseases - CORRECT ANSWER result of unfavorable growing conditions; cannot be transmitted from plant to plant infection diseases - CORRECT ANSWER caused by various pathogens; multiply and transmitted from plant to plant fungi - CORRECT ANSWER spores spread by rain, wind, insects, seeds; leaf spots/root rots bacteria - CORRECT ANSWER microscopic single celled organisms. Cannot move by themselves; only enter through wounds or small openings; crown gall, soft rot nematodes - CORRECT ANSWER microscopic roundworms that reproduce by eggs; spread by anything that moves infected plants parts or infested soil viruses - CORRECT ANSWER submicroscopic pieces of DNA/RNA; spread by insects/seed; mosaic/mottles phytoplasmas - CORRECT ANSWER bacteria-like organisms that lack cell walls; casual agents of "yellows" and "witches"