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Pesticide Applicator Exam Study Guide. Pest - answerAn undesirable organism that injures humans, desirable plants and animals, manufactured products, or natural substances Pathogens - answerDisease causing organisms Four Main Groups of Pest Organisms - answer1. Weeds 2. Invertebrates 3. Patho...

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Pesticide Applicator Exam Study Guide.

Pest - answer✔An undesirable organism that injures humans, desirable plants and animals,
manufactured products, or natural substances

Pathogens - answer✔Disease causing organisms

Four Main Groups of Pest Organisms - answer✔1. Weeds
2. Invertebrates
3. Pathogens
4. Vertebrates

Weed - answer✔Undesirable plant

Invertebrate Examples - answer✔Insects, mites, ticks, spiders, snails, slugs

Pathogen Examples - answer✔Bacteria, viruses, fungi, nematodes, mycoplasmas, and other
microorganisms

Vertebrate Examples - answer✔Birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, rodents, and other mammals

Importance of Pest Identification - answer✔Applicators can learn about its life cycle, behavior,
characteristic damage, factors that favor its development, susceptible life stages, and known
control methods. Could cause pest control success or failure.

6 Pest Management Methods - answer✔1. Biological
2. Chemical
3. Cultural
4. Genetic
5. Mechanical/Physical
6. Regulatory

Biological Control - answer✔Use of natural enemies to control pests.

Avicide - answer✔Control or repel pest birds

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Bactericide - answer✔Control bacteria

Chemosterilants - answer✔Sterilize insects or pest vertebrates

Defoliants - answer✔Causes leaves to drop from plants

Desiccants - answer✔Promote drying or loss of moisture from plant tissues and insects

Disinfectants - answer✔Control microorganisms

Fungicide - answer✔Control fungi

Growth Regulators - answer✔Alter growth or development of plant or animal

Herbicide - answer✔Control weeds

Insecticide - answer✔Control insects and related arthropods

Miticide - answer✔(Acaricide) Control mites

Molluscicides - answer✔Control snails and slugs

Nematicides - answer✔Control nematodes

Ovicides - answer✔Destroy eggs

Pheromone - answer✔Attract insects

Piscicides - answer✔Control pest fish

Predacides - answer✔Control predatory vertebrates

Repellants - answer✔Repel insects, mites, ticks, pest vertebrates, invertebrates, birds, and
mammals

Rodenticides - answer✔Controls rodents

Selective Pesticide - answer✔Toxic to some pests, but have little or no effect on others

Systemic Pesticide - answer✔Absorbed and translocated within a plant or animal

Contact Pesticide - answer✔Must directly touch the pest or a site the pest frequents

Persistence - answer✔How long a pesticide remains actives to control pest

Residual Pesticides - answer✔Control pests long term (ie weeks, months, or years)

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Cultural Control - answer✔Practices that reduce pest establishment, reproduction, dispersal, and
survival

Examples of Cultural Controls - answer✔Mowing, irrigation, aeration, fertilization, crop
selection, etc.

Genetic Control - answer✔Selected or bred to resists specific pests

Mechanical Control - answer✔Kill a pest directly or make its environmental unsuitable

Examples of Mechanical Control - answer✔Traps, mulches, fences, cloth mesh, etc.

Quarantine - answer✔Pest control process designed to prevent entry of certain pests into pest-
free areas

Eradication - answer✔Elimination of a pest from a designated area

Integrated Pest Management - answer✔Strategy that utilizes a wide range of pest control tactics
to prevent pests from reaching economically or aesthetically damaging levels with the least risk
to the environment

Why Practice IPM (5) - answer✔1. Balanced ecosystem.
2. Pesticides can be ineffective.
3. Can save money.
4. Promotes healthy environment.
5. Maintains good public image.

5 Components of IPM - answer✔1. Identify the pest and understand its biology
2. Monitor the pest to be managed
3. Develop pest management goal
4. Implement program
5. Record and evaluate results

Key Pests - answer✔May cause major damage on regular basis unless they are controlled

Secondary Pest - answer✔Become pests when key pests are controlled or absent

Occasional Pest - answer✔Sporadically become problematic due to life cycles, environmental
influences, or as a result of human activities

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