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Combine the use of several compatible methods into an ____ program, and target the pest at the most susceptible stage for control. ✔✔Integrated pest management program (IPM)
What are the pest management methods? ✔✔Natural Control
Mechanical control
Cultural Control
Physical/ environmental modification
Host resistance or genetic control
Chemical control
Regulatory Methods
What are measures that check or destroy pests without depending on humans for their continuance or success? ✔✔Natural Controls
What includes biological, mechanical, cultural, physical, genetic, chemical, and regulatory methods? ✔✔Applied Controls
What type of control modifies the environment to enhance natural enemies? ✔✔Biological Control
What type of control is to alter the environment, the condition of the host plant or site, or the behavior of the pest to prevent or suppress an infestation. ✔✔Cultural Control
What are 2 examples of Cultural Control ✔✔Cultural Practices and Sanitation
Using barriers to prevent pests from getting into an area is an example of which type of pest management method? ✔✔Mechanical Control
Lowering the humidity of stored grains and other food products to reduce damage from mold is an example of which type of pest management method? ✔✔Physical/ environmental modification
Sealing cracks and crevices and small openings in buildings is an example of which type of mechanical control method? ✔✔Exclusion
How are pesticides commonly grouped? ✔✔To the type of pest they control
What type of pesticide is used to control birds? ✔✔Avicides
What type of pesticide is used to control bacteria ✔✔Bactericides
What type of pesticide control Microorganisms? ✔✔Disinfectants
What type of Pesticide control fungi? ✔✔Fungicides
What type of Pesticide control weeds and other undesirable plants? ✔✔Herbicides
What type of Pesticide control insects and related arthropods? ✔✔Insecticides
What type of Pesticide control mites? ✔✔Miticides
What type of Pesticide control snails and slugs ✔✔Molluscidies
What type of Pesticides control nematodes? ✔✔Nematicides
What type of Pesticides control predatory vertabrates? ✔✔Predacides
What type of Pesticides control pest fish? ✔✔Piscicides
What type of Pesticides repel insects, related invertebrates, birds and mammals ✔✔Repellents
What type of Pesticides control rodents? ✔✔Rodenticides
What type of Pesticides cause leaves or foliage to drop from plants? ✔✔Defoliants
What type of Pesticides promote drying or loss of moisture from plants? ✔✔Desiccants
What type of Pesticides are substances (other than fertilizers or food) that alter the growth or development of a plant or animal? ✔✔Growth Regulators
What is a pest management strategy that utilizes a wide range of pest control methods or tactics? ✔✔Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
What are the 5 major steps all of the IPM components can be grouped into? ✔✔1. Identify the pest and understand its biology
- Monitor the pest to be managed
- Develop the Pest Management Goal
- Implement the Integrated Pest Managment Program (IPM)
- Record and Evaluate Results
What is the first step in any pest managment program? ✔✔Identify the pest
What pests may cause major damage on a regular basis unless they are controlled ✔✔Key Pests
What pests become troublesome only once in a while because of their life cycles or environmental influences, or as a result of human activiites? ✔✔Occasionl Pests
What pests become problems when a key pest is controlled or elimated? ✔✔Secondary Pests
What is a pest level at which some type of pest management action must be taken? ✔✔Action thresholds
What pest control methods are used to reduce pest population levels? ✔✔Suppression
What steps should be taken before implementing an IPM program ✔✔Identify the pest, Set up monitoring program, know the pest level that triggers control, know what control methods are available, evaluate the benefits and risks of each method
_____ can be defined as the ability of an insect, fungus, weed, rodent or other pest to tolerate a pesticide that once controlled it ✔✔Pesticide resistance
Using new compounds with different modes of action will lessen the likelihood of _____ developing in a population ✔✔resistance
Use new or alterned pesticides, change pesticide use patterns and treat only when necessary are what kind of management? ✔✔Resistance Management
What are the two types of pesticide applicators under FIFRA? ✔✔Private and commercial applicator
Who is defined as a certified applicator who uses or supervises the use of any restricted-use pesticide for the purpose of producing an agricultural commodity on his/her own property or property he/she rents or leases? ✔✔Private applicator
Who are individuals who use or supervise the use of any restricted-use pesticide for any purpose on any property except for those provided for under the definition of a private applicator? ✔✔Commercial Applicator
Only _____ may mix, load, or apply restricted-use pesticides ✔✔Certified applicators or individuals under their direct supervision
True or False. A pesticide may be applied to control a target pest not specified on the label if the pesticide is applied to a crop, animal, or site specifically listed on the label? ✔✔True
True or False A Pesticide may never be applied at a dosage, concentration, or frequency less than the specified on the label? ✔✔False
No pesticide can be registered or offered for sale unless its ______ provides for reasonable safeguards to prevent injury to humans and adverse effects on the environment? ✔✔labeling
The federal registration of pesticides under which section of FIFRA? ✔✔Section 3
Special local needs registrations under which section of FIFRA? ✔✔Section 24
Emergency exemptions under which section of FIFRA ✔✔Section 18
Exemption of minimum-risk pesticides from registration under which section of FIFRA? ✔✔Section 25b
A _____ is any instrument or contrivance (other than firearm) intended for trapping, destroying, repelling, or mitigation any pest? ✔✔device
The _____ examines health and safety data for pesticides active ingredients and determines whether they are eligible for reregistration? ✔✔EPA
What is defined as the amount of the chemical likely to remain in or on food, and other possible sources of exposures to the pesticide? ✔✔toxicity
In general, commercial applicators, wholesalers, dealers, and retailers my be assessed a civil penalty of not more than $_______ for each offence? ✔✔$5,
______ is the main federal law regulating pesticide use? ✔✔FIFRA
What governs the establishment of pesticide tolerances for food and feed products? ✔✔Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA)
The ______, passed in 1996, amended both FIFRA and FFDCA and set a tougher standard for pesticides used on food? ✔✔The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA)
What established a single, health-based standard to be used when assessing the risks of pesticide residues in food or feed? ✔✔The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA)
_____ may be linked to a variety of sexual, developmental, behavioral, and reproductive problems ✔✔Endocrine disruptors
What is a regulation aimed at reducing the risk of pesticides poisonings, injuries, and exposure to agricultural workers and pesticide handlers? ✔✔The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Worker Protection Standard (WPS)
What law makes it illegal to kill, harm, or collect endangered or threatened wildlife or fish, or to remove endangered or threatened plants from areas under federal jurisdiction? ✔✔Endangered Species Act (ESA)
Applicators must be aware of federal record-keeping requirments administered by the ____ for commercial applicators and by the ______ for private applicators? ✔✔EPA, USDA
What is the main method of communication between a pesticide manufacturer and pesticide users? ✔✔Product Label
______ on the other hand, includes the label itself plus all other information referenced on the lable or received from the manufacturer about the product when you buy it. ✔✔Labeling
You may encounter two major types of EPA registrations section 3 ______ registration or Section 24c ________. ✔✔standard, special local need
What type of registrations allow states to expand or limit the uses of certain registered pesticides within their jurisdictions? ✔✔Special local need (SLN)
What address pest problems for which no pesticides are registered? ✔✔Emergency Exemptions
______, allows the sale and use of a certain pesticide product during a specified period of time? ✔✔Section 18 exemption
What are pesticides are except from registration and considered to pose minimum risk to humans and the environment, provided the projucts satisfy certain conditions? ✔✔Minimum-risk Pesticides
Before buying a pesticide you should make sure of what? ✔✔Pesticide is registered for your intended use
The ______ shows up plainly on the front panel of the label and is the one used in advertisements and by company salespeople. It often indicates the type of formulation and the percentage of active ingredient present. ✔✔Trade, brand or product name
What is the chemical or chemicals in a pesticide product responsible for the pesticidal activity. It is the material in a pesticide fromulation that actually destroys a pest or performs a desired function. ✔✔Active Ingredient (a.i.)
What are the other ingredients in a pesticide formulation that are not usually named, but the label must show what percentage of the total contents they make up? ✔✔Inert Ingredients
What is the complex name that identifies the chemical components and structure of the pesticide's active ingredient? ✔✔Chemical name
Because chemical names or active ingredients are usually complex, many are given a shorter _______ name. ✔✔Common
The EPA classifies every pesticide product as either ______ or ________ use. ✔✔Restricted, unclassified/general
EPA Reg No. 3120-280-
What number identifies the distributor? ✔✔ 1492
What must also appear on the pesticide label to identify the facility that produced the product? ✔✔EPA establishment number
Most pesticide lables must include a ______. This important designation gives the user an indication of the relative acute toxicity of the product to humans and animals? ✔✔signal word
What signal word indicate products that are highly toxic by any route of entry into the body. They can cause death in very low doses. ✔✔Danger-Poison
What signal word indicate products that can cause severe eye damage or skin irritation? ✔✔Danger
What signal word indicate that the product is moderately toxic either orally, dermally, or through inhalation, or causes moderate eye and skin irritation? ✔✔Warning
What signal word signals that the product is slightly toxic either orally, dermally, or through inhalation, or causes slight eye and skin irritation? ✔✔Caution
What appears on all pesticide labels that contain additional statements to help applicators decide what precautions to take to protect themselves, their employees, and other persons (or animals) that could be exposed? ✔✔Precautionary statements
What typical label statements include:
Fatal if swallowed.
Poisonous if inhaled.
Extremely hazardous by skin contact-rapidly absorbed through skin
Corrosive-causes eye damage and severe skin burns. ✔✔Danger
What typical label statements include:
Harmful if swallowed
May be harmful if inhaled
May irritate eyes, nose, throat, and skin. ✔✔Caution
What typical lable statements include:
