Illinois Pesticide Applicator: IPM correctly answered 2024/2025

Illinois Pesticide Applicator: IPM What are the goals of Integrated Pest Management? - correct answer Provide economical pest control and Protect the environment How can you tell whether a pest such as a weed, disease, rodent, or insect has caused injury? - correct answer Scouting once per week and estimated injury What factors influence economic injury level estimation? - correct answer Economic and aesthetic thresholds Why is it important that you identify the pest and know its life cycle when scounting? - correct answer Needed to identify whether the pest is in a life stage that is causing damage to plants and level of difficulty to control What types of control measures are used in IPM? - correct answer cultural, mechanical, biological, chemical, preventive Cultural Control - correct answer involves growing the plant to be healthy through factors such as soil fertility, mulching, and crop rotation Mechanical Control - correct answer physically eliminating pests by pruning, cultivating, and mowing Biological Control - correct answer utilizes living organisms to control pests including predators, parasites, and diseases Chemical Control - correct answer Use of pesticides or herbicides to manage an unwanted organism(s) What is pesticide resistance? - correct answer Adjustment made by pests to withstand toxic effects of pesticides.