Pests control (Multiple Choices)

Purpose of a pest management program (IPM program):

Maintain pest populations below economic loss

Which of the following factors is IPM's main focus?

Natural lethal factors for pests

Which of the following factors does IPM pay attention to?

the use of insect-resistant varieties

To deal with developing pest resistance, what should be done?

Establish a reasonable crop rotation

What can be done to prevent an increase in the density of pests?

All of the above

Polyculture helps

all of the above

Phyto/phagous insects are

generally considered to be those that feed on green plants.

Benefit insects?

All of the above

Trap crops can be combined with other traps such as

all of the above traps

Which of the following methods help reduce the use of chemical pesticides: (1) Trap cropping; (2) Crop rotation; (3) Biological control; (4) Sterile Insect Technique; (5) Insect-Resistant Crops; (6) Polyculture.

(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6).

Substances used in insect communication are:

pheromone.

What kind of trap cropping is used for relatively mobile or widely dispersed insect pests?

Strip interplant

The planting of alfalfa rows around strawberry rows to keep harmful insects out is known as the technique of:

trap cropping

What kind of trap cropping is used for insect pests of limited mobile or clumped distribution?

Perimeter

Trap crops can be combined with other traps such as:

all of the above traps

Parasitic and insectivorous species will help reduce the use of ........ in crop and livestock production.

chemical pesticides

The factors that play important roles in protecting the ecosystem from pests and helping to balance the ecology, which are

natural enemies and keystone species.

The parasitic bacterium Wolbachia can be used to reduce insect populations because the bacterium

D) A and C

The technique of creating sterile males will NOT be effective for controlling an insect species when it has which of the following characteristics?

The number of individuals in the population is too large.

What are the most important changes that lead to pest outbreaks in ecosystems?

The development of resistance to many pests and the emergence of new pests.

Cultural Controls include:

Sanitation, Trap cropping, Polyculture, Strip cropping, Crop rotation, Time of planting.

In insect control, certain plant essential oils can be used for

all of the above

The technique of creating sterile males will NOT be effective for controlling an insect species when it has which of the following characteristics?

Both males and females mate several times with different individuals.