Ques 1:- What is the first thing you should do when you detect the presence of a pest?

o Select a control tactic

o Notify the Department of Agriculture
o Identify the organism and gain information about its biology
o Determine the economic threshold for control
Ques 2:- Suppression of a pest is:
o Keeping a pest from becoming a problem.
o Reducing pest numbers or damage to an acceptable level.
o Destroying an entire pest population.
o None of the above

Ques 3:-How can pest identification help you develop a good pest control strategy?

Ques 4:- What is pest monitoring?

 Watching your pesticide application kill the pest.
 Record keeping of the pesticide used.
 Checking or scouting for pests in an area to determine what pests are present,
how many and how much damage they are causing. Also called 'scouting'.
 Identifying the pest’s predators.

Ques 5:- Why is pest monitoring so important to pest management?

Ques 6:- What is IPM?

Ques 7:- Where is IPM involve...

 Monitoring, identifying pests, determining threshold levels

 Evaluating pest management strategies
 Selecting pest management strategies, evaluating the results, and making
adjustments
  Selecting the most effective pest management strategy that will do the least
harm to people, non-target organism and the environment.
 All of the above

Ques 8:- A pesticide was applied, but it did not control the pest. Which of the following is
NOT a reason for why the pesticide application might have failed to control the pest.
 A pesticide may fail to manage some pests because the pests have developed
resistance to the product.
 The pesticide was applied in the correct dosage
 Pesticide was not properly mixed
 Pest was not identified correctly
 Pesticide was applied to tops of leaves and the pest is located on the underside
of the leaves