ILLINOIS GENERAL STANDARDS PESTICIDE EXAM WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

Pest any insect, mite, rodent, weed, disease etc that is injurious to the health of humans, animals, plants, or the environment Goal of IPM keep pests below economic and aesthetic injury level, avoid adverse effects on humans, wildlife, environment economic injury level breakeven point at which cost of pest control equals revenue loss caused by pest economic threshold level number of pests per plant or amount of damage to plant at which control measures should begin aesthetic injury level 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 monitoring pest pop and plant conditions cultural control improve crop health mechanical control physical pest elimination biological control living organisms reduce pests chemical control chemical agents reduce pests preventative control prevent entry and spread pesticide failure wrong type, wrong pest stage, wrong area, pest resistance insects exoskeleton, 3 pairs jointed legs, 3 body region insect body regions head, thorax, abdomen incomplete development 3 life stages - eggs, nymph, adult