Illinois General Standards Pesticide Exam 100% Correct!!

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 preventative control - ANSWER prevent entry and spread pesticide failure - ANSWER wrong type, wrong pest stage, wrong area, pest resistance insects - ANSWER exoskeleton, 3 pairs jointed legs, 3 body region insect body regions - ANSWER head, thorax, abdomen incomplete development - ANSWER 3 life stages - eggs, nymph, adult complete development - ANSWER 4 life stages - egg, larvae, pupae, adult mites - ANSWER spider-like, 4 pairs of legs spiders - ANSWER 4 pairs of legs, 2 body regions crustaceans - ANSWER 7 pairs of legs ex) pillbugs birds - ANSWER all protected except non-native ex) starlings, house sparrows mammals - ANSWER protected except rats, mice, ground squirrels noninfectious disease - ANSWER cannot be transferred pest to pest or plant to plant, often result of unfavorable conditions infectious disease - ANSWER multiply within host, transferable chlorosis - ANSWER yellowing of leaves Mosiac - ANSWER green and yellow patching gall - ANSWER abnormal swelling infectious disease development elements - ANSWER susceptible host, plant pathogen, environment, time weeds - ANSWER any plant growing where is is