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Rights-Of-Way Pest Management Guaranteed Success Integrated Pest Management ️ The use of all available tactics or strategies to manage pests so that acceptable control can be achieved. Why must weeds and woody plants be managed on right of way? ️ Safety, access to facilities, decr...

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Integrated Pest Management

✔️ The use of all available tactics or strategies to manage pests so that acceptable control can be
achieved.



Why must weeds and woody plants be managed on right of way?

✔️ Safety, access to facilities, decrease in maintenance costs, wildlife.



The first component of an effective pest management program is pest identification.

✔️ True.



When identifying the pest, what other information should be collected about the pest?

✔️ Pest life cycles, physiology, reproductive potential, and past control results.



List several examples of different sites that might have site-specific requirements.

✔️ Urban, suburban, rural areas, dry upland, wetlands, popular tourist areas, scenic areas, recreation
areas.



Why should you monitor your control strategies? What information should be recorded?

✔️ Adjustments can be made when necessary. Records should include the rate for any pesticides
applied and identification of equipment.



List four categories of control methods.

✔️ Biological, cultural, mechanical, chemical control.



How does shading work as a cultural control? Where is it often used?

✔️ Floats of black plastic on water, adding dye to water; used in aquatic weed control.

, How have public attitudes changed about vegetation and its control in rights-of-way?

✔️ A more selective approach is being used in terms of what plants are considered bad.



Why is it important to protect wetlands?

✔️ Wildlife habitat, minimize bank and shoreline erosion along rivers and lakes.



Four stages of weed development and briefly describe each.

✔️ Seedling, vegetative, seed production, maturity.



List three plant types and briefly describe each.

✔️ Annuals (complete their life cycle in one year), biennials (require two years to complete their life
cycle), perennials (live for multiple years).



What is the difference between a monocot and dicot plant?

✔️ Monocots have only one leaf on seedlings and veins run parallel; they have a fibrous root system.

Dicots have two leaves as they emerge from the seed with net-like venation; they have a taproot.



Grasses may be annual or perennial.

✔️ True.



How does a sedge differ from a grass?

✔️ Sedges have triangular stems. “Sedges have edges!”



All actively growing broadleaf plants have __________ at the end of each stem and in each leaf axil.

✔️ Exposed growing points (terminal bud) and (auxiliary buds).



Trees are annual plants?

✔️ False.

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