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Pest Control
Term | Definition |
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Disease | infective agent that results in decreased health in living things. |
Fungi | members of a major group of lower plant life that lack chlorophyll and obtain nourishment from either live or decaying organic matter. |
Disease Triangle | the term applied to the relationship of the host, pathogen, and the environmental in disease development. |
Pest Population Equilibrium | a condition that occur when the number of pests stabilizes or remains steady. |
Mosaic | a virus disease of plants in which a leaf shows a symptom of light- and dark-green mottling of the foliage. |
Arachnid | a living creature such as a spider or mite that is distinguished from insects by having light legs. |
Pheromone | a chemical secreted by an organism to cause a specific reaction by another organism of the same species. |
Economic Threshold Level | the level of pest damage to justify the cost of a control measure. |
Vector | a living organism that transmit a disease. |
Insect | a six-legged animal with three body segments. |
Defoliate | to strip a plant of its leaves. |
Weed | a plant that is not wanted. |
Pathogen | organism that produce disease. |
Annual Weed | a weed that completes its life cycle within 1 year. |
Biennial Weed | a weed that will live for 2 years. |
Perennial Weed | a weed that lives for more than 2 years. |
Entomophagous | insects that feed on other insects. |
Plant Disease | any abnormal plant growth. |
Casual Agent | an organism that produces a disease. |
Abiotic Disease | a disease caused by factors other than pathogens. |
Bacteria | one-celled, microscopic organisms. |
Virus | pathogenic entity consisting of nucleic acid and a protein sheath. |
Nematode | a type of tiny roundworm that causes damage to specific kinds of plants. |
Key Pest | a pest that occur on a regular basis for a given crop. |
Biological Control | pest control that uses natural control agents. |
Cultural Control | pest control that adapts farming practices to better control pests. |
Clean Culture | any practice that removes breeding or over wintering sites of a pest. |
Trap Crop | a susceptible crop planted to attract a pest into a localized area. |
Pesticides Resistance | the ability of a pest to tolerate a lethal level of a pesticide. |
Chemical Control | the uses of pesticides for pest control |