Illinois General Standards Pesticide Exam (100% CORRECT ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION)

Pest - CORRECT ANSWER any insect, mite, rodent, weed, disease etc that is injurious to the health of humans, animals, plants, or the environment Goal of IPM - CORRECT ANSWER keep pests below economic and aesthetic injury level, avoid adverse effects on humans, wildlife, environment economic injury level - CORRECT ANSWER breakeven point at which cost of pest control equals revenue loss caused by pest economic threshold level - CORRECT ANSWER number of pests per plant or amount of damage to plant at which control measures should begin aesthetic injury level - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER monitoring pest pop and plant conditions cultural control - CORRECT ANSWER improve crop health mechanical control - CORRECT ANSWER physical pest elimination biological control - CORRECT ANSWER living organisms reduce pests chemical control - CORRECT ANSWER chemical agents reduce pests preventative control - CORRECT ANSWER prevent entry and spread pesticide failure - CORRECT ANSWER wrong type, wrong pest stage, wrong area, pest resistance insects - CORRECT ANSWER exoskeleton, 3 pairs jointed legs, 3 body region insect body regions - CORRECT ANSWER head, thorax, abdomen incomplete development - CORRECT ANSWER 3 life stages - eggs, nymph, adult complete development - CORRECT ANSWER 4 life stages - egg, larvae, pupae, adult mites - CORRECT ANSWER spider-like, 4 pairs of legs spiders - CORRECT ANSWER 4 pairs of legs, 2 body regions crustaceans - CORRECT ANSWER 7 pairs of legs ex) pillbugs birds - CORRECT ANSWER all protected except non-native ex) starlings, house sparrows mammals - CORRECT ANSWER protected except rats, mice, ground squirrels noninfectious disease - CORRECT ANSWER cannot be transferred pest to pest or plant to plant, often result of unfavorable conditions infectious disease - CORRECT ANSWER multiply within host, transferable chlorosis - CORRECT ANSWER yellowing of leaves Mosiac - CORRECT ANSWER green and yellow patching gall - CORRECT ANSWER abnormal swelling infectious disease development elements - CORRECT ANSWER susceptible host, plant pathogen, environment, time weeds - CORRECT ANSWER any plant growing where is is unwanted noxious - CORRECT ANSWER declared by law, must be controlled ragweed, marijuana, thistle, john songrass - CORRECT ANSWER noxious weeds exotic - CORRECT ANSWER unlawful to sell, buy, plant honeysuckle, buckthorn - CORRECT ANSWER exotic weeds 3 types of weeds - CORRECT ANSWER grasses, grass-like, broadleaf grass/grass-like - CORRECT ANSWER parallel veins broadleaf weeds - CORRECT ANSWER net-veined, less elongated annual weeds - CORRECT ANSWER life cycle 1 year biennial weeds - CORRECT ANSWER 2 year life cycle perennial weeds - CORRECT 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? - CORRECT ANSWER a biennial weed pesticide - CORRECT ANSWER Any chemical used to destroy, prevent or control any form of life declared as a pest active ingredient - CORRECT ANSWER The chemical effective against the pest inert ingredients - CORRECT ANSWER don't directly harm pests, increase effectiveness of active ingredient dry formulations - CORRECT ANSWER SP, WP, P, DF, WDG, G, P, PS, D soluble powder - CORRECT ANSWER SP SP - CORRECT ANSWER mixed with water, form solution Wettable powders - CORRECT ANSWER WP WP - CORRECT ANSWER mixed with water, form suspension abrasive to pumps and nozzles, inhalation hazard - CORRECT ANSWER WP issues dry flowables - CORRECT ANSWER DF DF - CORRECT ANSWER AI is granule, forms suspension water-dispersible granules - CORRECT ANSWER WDG WDG - CORRECT ANSWER granules form suspension with water granules - CORRECT ANSWER G G - CORRECT ANSWER AI coated to make coarse particles, applied directly dusts - CORRECT ANSWER D D - CORRECT ANSWER low % of AI on fine carrier drift and inhalation hazard - CORRECT ANSWER D issues wet formulations - CORRECT ANSWER Emulsifiable concentrates Emulsions Microencapsulated Liquids or Flowables Solutions Ultra-low-volume concentrates (ULV) Emulsifiable concentrate - CORRECT ANSWER EC EC - CORRECT ANSWER Active ingredient is mixed with 1 or more solvents & emulsifier that allows mixing with water dermal hazard - CORRECT ANSWER EC issues Microencapsulated - CORRECT ANSWER ME ME - CORRECT ANSWER Active ingredient is surrounded by a plastic capsule or coating that is suspended in a liquid-resulting in a time-released product hazard to bees - CORRECT ANSWER ME issues solutions - CORRECT ANSWER