Pest and Disease Management

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Pest and Disease Management

• Study Guide

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Plant Health Define the following

• Pest
• Disease
• Pathogen
• Infectious disease
• Noninfectious disease

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IPM What are the 5 steps

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Pest -

• List and describe 3 piercing sucking insects
• List and describe 3 insects that the larva damage
  plants

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Diseases

• List and describe 1 bacterial diseases
• List and describe 3 fungal diseases

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Pest Control list and describe the 3 types of
control
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Pesticides Chemical controls

• Insecticide
• Miticide
• Bactericide
• Fungicide
• Herbicide

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Pesticide less toxic

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Pesticide applications - List 3

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Safe use of pesticides 5 most rules

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• 3
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• 5

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Plant Health Define the following

• Pest living organism that can cause injury or
  loss to a plant
• Disease Disturbance to the normal, healthy
  growth of a plant
• Pathogen bacteria, fungi or virus
• Infectious disease disease that can be spread
  to other plants
• Noninfectious disease caused by environmental
  imbalances and cannot be spread to other plants.

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IPM Integrated Pest Management

1. Exclusion
2. Crop Management
3. Sanitation
4. Monitor for pest
5. Pest Management

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Pest -

• List and describe 3 piercing sucking insects
• Aphids pear shaped soft bodied. Green or
  yellowish, live birth
• Mealy bugs slow-moving oval shaped whitish
  insects
• Scale flat, oval often brown may or may not
  have an armored shell.
• List and describe 3 insects that the larva damage
  plants
• Fungus gnat less than 1/8 of an inch long.
  larvae feed on root hairs and tunnel plant stems
• Leaf Miners small stocky flies, larvae tunnel
  through leaf.
• Worms or caterpillars larva of various moth
  species. Biting chewing mouth parts.

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Diseases

• List and describe a bacterial disease
• Erwinia causes rotting of plant tissues
• List and describe 3 fungal diseases
• Botrytis Blight brown rotting and develops
  fussy, gray mold
• Powdery Mildew white dusty coating to leaves
  and flowers.
• Rhizoctonia common under wet, warm conditions
• Pythium - common under wet, cool conditions

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Pest Control list and describe the 3 types of
control

• Sanitation
• Cultural/Physical control
• Biological control
• Chemical

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Pesticides Chemical controls

• Insecticide kills insects
• Miticide kills mites
• Bactericide kills bacteria
• Fungicide kills fungicide
• Herbicide kills plants - Weeds

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Pesticide less toxic

1. Botanical insecticides
2. Horticultural oils
3. growth regulators
4. Insecticidal soaps

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Pesticide applications - List 3

1. Fumigants
2. Granular
3. Spray
4. aerosols
5. dip
6. drench

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Safe use of pesticides 5 most rules

• Use pesticide only when needed.
• Select least toxic pesticide
• Read and follow label
• Wear protective clothing when mixing and applying
  pesticides
• Apply to complete coverage.