| Question | Answer |
| Pest Surveillance | The watch kept on a pest for the purpose of decision making |
| Insect pest survey | A detailed collection of insect population information at a particular time in a given area |
| Sampling Unit | A proportion of the habitable space from which insect counts are taken |
| A Sample (in surveying for insect pests) | A group of sampling units |
| Sampling Universe | The habitat in which the population occurs |
| Sampling Technique | The method used to collect information from a single sampling unit |
| Sampling Program | The procedure that employs the sampling technique to obtain a sample and make a density estimate |
| List three insect activities detected and documented by pest surveillance | Crop invasion d. Feeding
b. Long-range migration e. Reproduction
c. Local movement |
| List three ways to determine insect sampling units | Insects per unit surface area
b. Sweep nets are used making contact with only a portion of the plant being swept
c. Insect light traps |
| Sampling Programs direct how a sample is to be taken, and include four parameters. Name two | Insect stage to sample c. Spatial pattern to obtain sampling units
b. Sampling-unit number d. Timing of samples |
| The two types of sampling programs are | Extensive programs
b. Intensive programs |
| When using in situ counts, for any sampling technique one must also assess two other things: | The state of the plant
b. Density of the sampling units present |
| The two basic requirements of insect trapping for sampling are | The insects must move
b. The trap must hold the captured insects |
| The design of an insect sampling program involves at least four basic dimensions: | a. Insect stage to sample
b. Number of sampling units to take
c. Time to sample
d. Pattern of sampling |
| a. Insect stage to sample
b. Number of sampling units to take
c. Time to sample
d. Pattern of sampling | Light
b. A shape attractive to insects |
| Soil is often sampled for insects by one of the following methods (list four) | Berlese funnels
b. Sieving
c. Washing
d. Floatation |
