WASHINGTON PESTICIDE UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Integrated Pest Management - ✔✔the use of all available tactics or strategies to
manage pests
✔✔What are the 5 IPM steps - ✔✔1. Identify the pest 2. define the management system
3. develop the pest management strategy
4. develop reliable monitoring techniques 5. Use economic thresholds
✔✔Severe Pests - ✔✔Always present at populations above the economic injury
threshold in the absence of control
✔✔Occasional or secondary pests - ✔✔can cause damage above economic injury
levels only at certain times
✔✔potential pests - ✔✔cause no apparent economic damage under normal
circumstances
✔✔migratory pests - ✔✔may cause serious damage on a periodic basis
✔✔Economic threshold - ✔✔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 - ✔✔the pest population density that cause losses equal to
the cost of control measures
✔✔Mechanical controls - ✔✔devices that prevent the spread or reduce the infestation
of pests, primarily insects and vertebrae animals
✔✔Physical controls - ✔✔include manipulation of water, humidity, or temperature; the
use of electric shock, light, or other radiant energy
✔✔Cultural Controls - ✔✔the manipulation of the environment to avert serious pest
damage
✔✔Genetic controls - ✔✔involves the use of plants and animals that are resistant to
attack by pests
✔✔Biological controls - ✔✔involves the introduction, encouragement, and artificial
increase of plants and animals that are parasites or predators of a pest species
, ✔✔Chemical controls - ✔✔involves the use of naturally derived or synthetic chemicals
that kill, attract, repel or otherwise control the growth of pest plants, animals and
microorganisms
✔✔Avicides - ✔✔to control pest birds
✔✔bactericides - ✔✔to control bacteria
✔✔fungicides - ✔✔to control fungi
✔✔herbicides - ✔✔to control weeds, shrubs and trees
✔✔insecticides - ✔✔to control insects and insect relatives
✔✔miticides - ✔✔to control mites
✔✔acaricides - ✔✔to control mites
✔✔molluscicides - ✔✔to control snails and slugs
✔✔nematicides - ✔✔to control nematodes
✔✔piscicides - ✔✔to control pest fish
✔✔rodenticides - ✔✔to control rodents
✔✔defoliants - ✔✔chemicals that cause leaves or foliage to drop from a plant
✔✔desiccants - ✔✔chemicals that promote drying or loss of moisture in plant tissues
✔✔growth regulators - ✔✔substances (other than fertilizers or food) that alter the
growth or development of a plant or animal
✔✔adjuvants - ✔✔substance added to pesticide formulations and tank mixtures to
increase safety and effectiveness
✔✔systemic pesticides - ✔✔foliar or root-absorbed and then translocated within the
treated plant
✔✔contact pesticides - ✔✔pest must contact a treated area to be affected
✔✔stomach toxins - ✔✔must be ingested to be affective
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Integrated Pest Management - ✔✔the use of all available tactics or strategies to
manage pests
✔✔What are the 5 IPM steps - ✔✔1. Identify the pest 2. define the management system
3. develop the pest management strategy
4. develop reliable monitoring techniques 5. Use economic thresholds
✔✔Severe Pests - ✔✔Always present at populations above the economic injury
threshold in the absence of control
✔✔Occasional or secondary pests - ✔✔can cause damage above economic injury
levels only at certain times
✔✔potential pests - ✔✔cause no apparent economic damage under normal
circumstances
✔✔migratory pests - ✔✔may cause serious damage on a periodic basis
✔✔Economic threshold - ✔✔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 - ✔✔the pest population density that cause losses equal to
the cost of control measures
✔✔Mechanical controls - ✔✔devices that prevent the spread or reduce the infestation
of pests, primarily insects and vertebrae animals
✔✔Physical controls - ✔✔include manipulation of water, humidity, or temperature; the
use of electric shock, light, or other radiant energy
✔✔Cultural Controls - ✔✔the manipulation of the environment to avert serious pest
damage
✔✔Genetic controls - ✔✔involves the use of plants and animals that are resistant to
attack by pests
✔✔Biological controls - ✔✔involves the introduction, encouragement, and artificial
increase of plants and animals that are parasites or predators of a pest species
, ✔✔Chemical controls - ✔✔involves the use of naturally derived or synthetic chemicals
that kill, attract, repel or otherwise control the growth of pest plants, animals and
microorganisms
✔✔Avicides - ✔✔to control pest birds
✔✔bactericides - ✔✔to control bacteria
✔✔fungicides - ✔✔to control fungi
✔✔herbicides - ✔✔to control weeds, shrubs and trees
✔✔insecticides - ✔✔to control insects and insect relatives
✔✔miticides - ✔✔to control mites
✔✔acaricides - ✔✔to control mites
✔✔molluscicides - ✔✔to control snails and slugs
✔✔nematicides - ✔✔to control nematodes
✔✔piscicides - ✔✔to control pest fish
✔✔rodenticides - ✔✔to control rodents
✔✔defoliants - ✔✔chemicals that cause leaves or foliage to drop from a plant
✔✔desiccants - ✔✔chemicals that promote drying or loss of moisture in plant tissues
✔✔growth regulators - ✔✔substances (other than fertilizers or food) that alter the
growth or development of a plant or animal
✔✔adjuvants - ✔✔substance added to pesticide formulations and tank mixtures to
increase safety and effectiveness
✔✔systemic pesticides - ✔✔foliar or root-absorbed and then translocated within the
treated plant
✔✔contact pesticides - ✔✔pest must contact a treated area to be affected
✔✔stomach toxins - ✔✔must be ingested to be affective
