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