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Pest correct answers a plant or animal detrimental to man; seen as insects, disease causing organisms, weeds, molluscs, fish, birds, and a variety of mammals from rats to bears as competitors for our livestock and crops. earliest use of chemical pesticide correct answers 2500 B.C.; used sulfur to control insects and mites Bordeaux mixture correct answers mixture of CuSO4 and lime used to prevent downy mildew on grapes; first used in 1892 synthetic pesticides correct answers started being used in the 1940s during WWII; most well known is DDT; have significant success while remaining low cost pesticide downsides correct answers at least 500 species of insects have become resistant to one or more insecticides worldwide, more than 180 weed species and hundreds of plant pathogens are now resistant to pesticide, causes harm to human health and threatens the environment chloronated hydrocarbon insecticides correct answers includes DDT, aldrin, chlordane, dieldrin, and heptachlor; have long residual lives that allow them to persist in the environment as well as the fatty tissue of some animals. Most of these have been taken off the market. DDT specifically was banned in 1972. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) correct answers created in 1970 with a mandate from congress; tasked with implementing by regulation the laws passed by congress to protect the environment and the health of humans and other animals. organophosphate insecticides correct answers more acutely toxic to mammals and more expensive than the chlorinated hydrocarbons but much less persistent in the environment Integrated Pest Management (IPM) correct answers the use of all available tactics or strategies to manage pests. Offers the possibility of improving the efficiency of pest control programs while reducing their negative impacts. 5 steps of IPMs correct answers Identify the pest to be managed, define the management system, develop the pest management strategy, develop reliable monitoring techniques, and use economic thresholds. economic threshold correct answers the level or density of a pest population where control measures need to be applied to prevent the pest from reaching the economic injury level. Economic Injury Level correct answers the pest population density that causes losses equal to the cost of control measures