Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) - ANSWER-Who is the primary agency regulating pesticides in Texas?
IPM (Integrated Pest Management) - ANSWER-Comprehensive approach that uses biological, cultural, physical, and chemical controls in a careful, environmentally sound manner.
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Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) - ANSWER-Who is the primary agency regulating pesticides in Texas?
IPM (Integrated Pest Management) - ANSWER-Comprehensive approach that uses biological, cultural, physical, and chemical controls in a careful, environmentally sound manner.
Landscape Problems - ANSWER-Biotic, abiotic, and natural factors
Biological control - ANSWER-Involves manipulating the natural enemies of pets
Cultural control - ANSWER-Involve in taking care of the plants, such as site selection and watering practices.
Mechanical control - ANSWER-Involves the use of equipment or manual operations to keep out or disrupt the life cycle of pests.
Host plant resistance - ANSWER-Some plants can tolerate damage from certain pests or are unsuitable for pest development.
Chemical control - ANSWER-Involves the use of pesticides to destroy pests, control their activity, or prevent them from causing damage.
Plant selection - ANSWER-Choose all landscape plants according to their water requirements, shade tolerance, and susceptibility to pests.
Preventive applications - ANSWER-Involves applying a pesticide before the problem appears.
Reactive, or curative, treatments - ANSWER-Occur after you notice the pest or its damage.
100 - ANSWER-Mix and load pesticides at least ____ feet from wells, lakes, streams, rivers, and storm drains.
Drift - ANSWER-The unintended movement of pesticides through the air during or after application to an area other than the intended target.
Runoff - ANSWER-Movement of pesticides across the treated surface, such as a lawn. Pesticide adjuvants - ANSWER-Are products designed to make pesticides more effective.
16 - ANSWER-How many elements do plants need?
Temperature, moisture, and sunlight - ANSWER-What greatly influences the amount of time required for a pesticide to degrade after application?
systemic insecticides - ANSWER-are absorbed by plant roots or foliage and than translocated throughout the plants. best against piercing sucking insects
Hot and Dry - ANSWER-During what kind of weather are damaging infestations of spider mites most likely to occur?
Fall webworm - ANSWER-What insect builds webs near the ends of branches, where caterpillars consume foliage?
Aphids, mites, and small wasps - ANSWER-The feeding of what insect/s cause plant galls?
Hot and Dry - ANSWER-In what kind of weather do chinch bugs damage turf?
4-5 - ANSWER-How many white grubs per square foot may cause economic damage?
Fungi - ANSWER-What causes the majority of severe plant diseases?
Lichens - ANSWER-small plants that consist of algae and fungi
Take-all root rot - ANSWER-Fungal disease that causes weak, brown, dead patches in turf grass.
Weed - ANSWER-A plant out of place.
Broadleaf weeds - ANSWER-Dicots, produce two true seed leaves
Southern Cinch Bug - ANSWER-The most economically damaging insect pests of St. Augustine grass in Texas during the summer.
Cinch Bugs - ANSWER-Prefer hot, dry weather and open, sunny areas.
Fall Armyworm - ANSWER-Causes the most damage to lawns
Red imported fire ants - ANSWER-Cost Americans $6 billion a year and are a serious pest of lawns and golf courses Texas.
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