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