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Lowa Ornamental and Turfgrass Pest
Management Category 3 OT Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Solved
CH1 Define integrated pest management - ✔✔IPM is a system that uses
all available and suitable pest control tactics to reduce pest population to
tolerable levels while minimizing adverse environmental side affects
CH1 Explain how aesthetic thresholds affect IPM tactics - ✔✔IPM
establishes aesthetic thresholds based on tolerance, personal comfort,
taste, plant appearance, and specific site and environmental conditions.
CH1 Explain how IPM can reduce the use of pesticides - ✔✔IPM
reduces hazards by reducing overall pesticide use, using least hazardous
pesticides when there is a demonstrated need, and taking special
protective measures to reduce pesticide exposure living organisms and the
environment.
CH1 List the six control strategies used in IPM - ✔✔1. Cultural
2. Mechanical
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3. Host Resistance
4. Biological
5. Regulatory
6. Chemical Practices
Define pesticide - ✔✔substances or mixture thereof intended for
preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, or regulate plant
growth.
Contact pesticide - ✔✔pesticide that controls a pest when it comes into
direct contact with the pesticide
Systemic pesticide - ✔✔A pesticide that is absorbed and transported
around a plant in the sap
Preemergence Herbicide - ✔✔a herbicide applied before weed or crop
germination
Postemergence Herbicide - ✔✔a herbicide applied after weeds are
actively growing
Plant diseases application timing - ✔✔Efficacy of many fungicides that
susceptible tissues be protected before any infection begins or at first
appearance of symptoms
Lowa Ornamental and Turfgrass Pest
Management Category 3 OT Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Solved
CH1 Define integrated pest management - ✔✔IPM is a system that uses
all available and suitable pest control tactics to reduce pest population to
tolerable levels while minimizing adverse environmental side affects
CH1 Explain how aesthetic thresholds affect IPM tactics - ✔✔IPM
establishes aesthetic thresholds based on tolerance, personal comfort,
taste, plant appearance, and specific site and environmental conditions.
CH1 Explain how IPM can reduce the use of pesticides - ✔✔IPM
reduces hazards by reducing overall pesticide use, using least hazardous
pesticides when there is a demonstrated need, and taking special
protective measures to reduce pesticide exposure living organisms and the
environment.
CH1 List the six control strategies used in IPM - ✔✔1. Cultural
2. Mechanical
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3. Host Resistance
4. Biological
5. Regulatory
6. Chemical Practices
Define pesticide - ✔✔substances or mixture thereof intended for
preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, or regulate plant
growth.
Contact pesticide - ✔✔pesticide that controls a pest when it comes into
direct contact with the pesticide
Systemic pesticide - ✔✔A pesticide that is absorbed and transported
around a plant in the sap
Preemergence Herbicide - ✔✔a herbicide applied before weed or crop
germination
Postemergence Herbicide - ✔✔a herbicide applied after weeds are
actively growing
Plant diseases application timing - ✔✔Efficacy of many fungicides that
susceptible tissues be protected before any infection begins or at first
appearance of symptoms
