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Pest Control

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Term
Definition
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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