Illinois General Standards Pesticide Exam

Pest - Answer- any insect, mite, rodent, weed, disease etc that is injurious to the health of humans, animals, plants, or the environment Goal of IPM - Answer- keep pests below economic and aesthetic injury level, avoid adverse effects on humans, wildlife, environment economic injury level - Answer- breakeven point at which cost of pest control equals revenue loss caused by pest economic threshold level - Answer- number of pests per plant or amount of damage to plant at which control measures should begin aesthetic injury level - 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 - Answer- monitoring pest pop and plant conditions cultural control - Answer- improve crop health mechanical control - Answer- physical pest elimination biological control - Answer- living organisms reduce pests chemical control - Answer- chemical agents reduce pests preventativ