Ohio Pesticide Applicator – CORE Test Questions And Answers

Ohio Pesticide Applicator – CORE Test Questions And Answers continuous pests require regular control sporadic/migratory pests occasionally require control potential pests require control depending on circumstance supression reducing past numbers of damage to an acceptable level prevention keeping a pest from becoming a problem eradication destroying an entire pest population threshold levels usually set at a level where econ loss is greater than controlling pests pest monitoring how many pests? what kind? Time? environmental conditions? -usually done by trapping natural controls climate, enemies, geographic barriers, food and water supply, shelter host resistance chemical is the host repel the pest, the host has higher fitness biological control using parasites/pathogens/predators to control pests