Integrated Pest Management

Integrated Pest Managment

What are the 5 major categories of Pests?

• Insects and related pests

• Weeds

• Rodents and other animals

• Diseases

What are the 3 body parts that insects have?

• Head

• Thorax

• Abdomen

What makes a true insect?

• Head, Thorax, Abdomen

• 3 Pairs of legs

• 0-2 Pairs of wings

What insects are an example of incomplete metamorphosis?

Grasshoppers, Assassin Bug

What does incomplete metamorphosis consist of?

Egg, Nymph, Adult stages

What insects go through complete metamorphosis?

Tomato Horn Worm, Spotted Cucumber Beetle

What does complete metamorphosis consist of?

Egg, Larva, Pupa, Adult stages

What insects go through no metamorphosis?

Silverfish, Springtails

What does no metamorphosis consist of?

Egg, Juvenile, Adult

What are the different chewing habits of pests?

• Chewing

• Piercing-sucking

• Siphoning

• Sponging

____________ are worm like soilborne invertabres.

Nematodes

Nematodes cause what in plants?

Root knot and cysts

T/F: Weeds do NOT harbor disease.

False, they do

Abiotic diseases aka

environmental

Biotic diseases aka

Pathogenic

Biotic diseases consist of

• Bacteria

• Fungi

• Viruses

Cultural IPM includes

• Crop rotation

• Irrigation

• Fertilization

• Sanitation

Biological IPM includes

• Bacteria

• Allelopathy

• Beneficial insects

Chemical IPM includes

• Pesticides

Genetic IPM includes

• Plant breeding

• Genetically Modified Organism

Mechanical IPM includes

• Plowing

• Mulching

• Mowing

• Pruning

• Tillage

• Handpicking

• Temperature

The smallest number of of insects that will cause yield losses equal to insect management cost is

Economic Injury Level

The pest density at which management action should be taken to prevent an increasing pest population from reaching the economic injury level is

Economic Threshold