Right of Way and Natural Areas

Define the word “Pest“

Why are not all organisms considered pests?

List the Major Categories of Pests.

Outline the benefits of correctly identifying pests.

Give examples of possible downsides to not correctly identifying pests.

Specify the main goal of pest management.

Outline the points to consider before choosing to manage pests.

Explain why specific pests may or may not be named on a pesticide label.

List some of the key ideas and goals of Integrated Pest Management:

Define the terms “right of way” and “natural area”

Explain what determines whether a given plant is a weed.

List the two main goals of weed management:

Distinguish grasses from broadleaf plants and herbaceous from woody plants.

Describe the life cycles of annual, biennial, and perennial plants and how they reproduce.

Outline what is needed to kill annual, biennial, and perennial weeds and when it is easiest to do so.

Pesticide

Ways pesticides can be grouped

Mode of Action

Characteristics of Pesticides

How do these characteristics effect pest management and potential environmental problems?

Types of Pesticide names on a product label

What an herbicide needs to do to kill weeds.

Contact Herbicide

Systemic Herbicide

How Herbicides get into weeds

Timing of Herbicide application to weeds life cycle

Effects of soil texture and organic matter content on soil herbicides.

How to keep soil herbicides from moving off target

Formulation

Functions of active and other ingredients

Information about formulations on the label

Considerations when choosing formulations

Summarize advantages and disadvantages of the types of formulation

Health concerns with formulations

Function of adjuvants and how they differ

Most prominent federal pesticide law and the agency overseeing it

Registration of Pesticides

Classified restricted use and who can use them

State and Federal Law differences

Private applicator vs commercial applicator (for hire and not for hire)

Certification and licensing requirements for commercial applicators.

Who must keep records and for how long

Information that must be part of a record

Precautions near water

Rules involving transportation

How to know when you need to follow transport rules