Pesticide Applicator Certification Michigan with Complete Solutions

Pesticide Applicator Certification Michigan with Complete Solutions Pesticide Applicator Certification Michigan with Complete Solutions Pesticide Applicator Certification Michigan with Complete Solutions Define integrated pest management - ANSWER-IPM is a planned pest control program that combines control program that combines control strategies to keep the pest population below economically damaging levels and to avoid adverse effects to humans, wildlife, and the environment. List three control strategies and give an example for each - ANSWER-Cultural Control- Host plant resistance, maintaining healthy plants, changing the timing of harvest or planting, cultivation, field management, water management Biological Control- pathogens, parasitoids, predators Chemical Control- insecticide, herbicide, fungicide Define economic threshold - ANSWER-The number of pests that requires a control action to prevent the pest population fromm increasing and causing economic damage. A high value crop will usually have a high economic threshold - ANSWER-False Field scouting is important because it helps determine pest: - ANSWER-Presence, Location, Life Stage When scouting a field, you should sample only from: - ANSWER-Randomly picked locations throughout the field List three ways that cultural controls work - ANSWER-1. Preventing the pest from colonizing the crop or commodity 2. Creating adverse conditions that reduce survival of the pest, and 3. reducing the impact of injury by the pest Which of the following is an example of a biological control? - ANSWER-Parasitoid Host plant resistance is a form of? - ANSWER-Cultural control