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Category A and E Pesticide Test Practice
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Selective herbicide ✔✔Control certain types of plants, especially with other plant
Pesticide Misuse ✔✔-Not using a pesticide according to label directions
- using a pesticide not registered for sale or use in MN
- applying without a license
- applying in a endangering way to animals/ppl/environment
MDA ✔✔MN Department of Agriculture
FIFRA ✔✔Federal insecticide, fungicide, and rodenticide act.
Restricted Use Pesticides (RUPs) ✔✔Pesticide formulation designed and approved by the FIFRA
Non-Restricted Use Pesticides (Non-RUPs) ✔✔All pesticides other than RUPs including general use and unclassified pesticides, organic pesticides, etc
Structural Pest Control Applicator (SPCA) ✔✔These applicators apply pesticide 'for hire' in, on or around their customers buildings and other structures.
Re-certification ✔✔There are two ways to recertify.
1 - attend an MDA approved category specific recertification workshop.
2 - re-test by taking the category certification exams and pay retest fees.
Reciprocity ✔✔Allow someone residing in licensed in another state to obtain a pesticide applicator license in MN without being required to take MN initial certification exams or completing MN recertification requirements.
Endangered Species ✔✔A plant or animal in danger of extinction.
Examples-
MN Dwarf Trout Lily
Piping Plover
Topeka Shiner
Karner Blue Butterfly
Higgins Eye Pearly Mussel
Pesticide Management Plan ✔✔A plan of protection for groundwater and surface water.
Best Management Practices (BMPs) ✔✔These are practical, research-based ways for users of pesticides to prevent or minimize contamination.
Application Setbacks ✔✔The distance of untreated land between a pesticide treated area in the areas that need protection from the pesticides.
Filter Strips and Vegetation Buffers ✔✔Untreated grass strips next to streams, ponds, and other sensitive areas that can trap much of the pesticide running off treated sites.
Depth to Groundwater ✔✔The distance from the soil surface down to the water table.
Backflow ✔✔When the water source filling the pesticide application equipment has a water pressure drop unexpectedly in the supply line, electricity is shut down or a pump fails and the pesticide runs back into the water source, contaminating it.
Reduced Pressure Principal Device ✔✔Two independent check valves in the water supply line, with an automatic pressure differential valve located between the two valves.
Pressurized Vacuum Breaker ✔✔Vees stop backflow in the waterline is under continuous water pressure and the waterline pressure is lost.
Atmospheric Vacuum Breaker ✔✔These let air from the atmosphere into the waterline to break the backflow siphon at the event of pressure loss in the waterline.
Chemigation ✔✔Application of pesticides and fertilizers through irrigation systems
Pesticide Waste ✔✔Includes both pesticides that you cannot use as originally intended, old pesticides that may no longer be effective or pesticides you no longer need or want.
Waste Pesticides ✔✔Pesticides that are no longer usable or wanted.
Examples-
The government has banned the use of the pesticide. The pesticide has been stored too long and lost effectiveness or changed in other ways so it no longer works.
STARR ✔✔Secure - Key people/children/pet/animals away from site and wear PPE
Telephone - if there is a threat to public safety call 911 and or fire department if needed. Then call safety duty officer to report
Abate - Control the source of contamination and contain the contamination so it does not spread any further
Recover - collect the released chemical and any contaminated soil or other materials
Remediate - dispose of recovered chemical in contaminated soil and materials
Agricultural Chemical Response and Reimbursement Account (ACRRA) ✔✔A fund that provides partial reimbursement for cleanup cost for agricultural chemical incidents
Adjuvant ✔✔An additive to a pesticide that enhances pesticide effectiveness.
Aquatic life ✔✔Organisms that spend all or part of their life on surface waters.
Direct pesticide application ✔✔A precise application to a specific area or site so only weeds are sprayed during a band application to crops.
Indirect pesticide applications ✔✔Unintentional or intentional treatment of pests through spraying or placement of a pesticide on a plant rather than on the pest.
Leaching ✔✔The downward movement of pesticides and nutrients through the soil.
Non-target species ✔✔Organisms not intended to be managed
Runoff ✔✔The movement of water and associated Materials over the top of the soil or impervious surfaces.
Toxicity ✔✔The extent to which a chemical or substance is poisonous.
Transformation ✔✔Change in a pesticides chemical structure
Transportation ✔✔The movement of a pesticide away from its intended site of action.
Pollinator protection statements ✔✔EPA required statements on pesticide labels which provide information on use of the product in a manner that reduces impacts on pollinators.
Adventitious roots ✔✔Roots that grow in unusual places, such as on the stem of a plant
Aesthetic threshold ✔✔The pest population density level when pest management measures must be applied to prevent reaching unacceptable levels of aesthetic damage to a plant or landscape.
Alleopathy ✔✔Inhibition of growth of a plant species caused by chemicals produced by another plant species.
Annual ✔✔A plant that completes its lifecycle in one year.
Bactericide ✔✔A chemical that destroys bacteria except for those at the endospore stage
Biotic ✔✔A living factor in the ecosystem
Biennial ✔✔A plant that requires two growing seasons to complete its life cycle.
Calibration ✔✔The practice of verifying and adjusting fertilizer or pesticide application equipment to accurately apply a predetermined or calculated amount of product per area unit.
Chorophyll ✔✔Principal pigment of plants and other photosynthetic organisms.
Contact herbicides ✔✔These kill or stunt only the parts that are treated with chemicals. They are most affective against annual weeds
Control list ✔✔Consists pf prohibited noxious weeds for which efforts must be made to prevent the spread, matureation,and dispersal of any propagating parts
Controlled droplet ✔✔Rotary spray nozzles that have a spinning cup with small groups that spiral up of the inner wall. The droplet size varies with cup diameter, speed and flow rates.
Cultural practices ✔✔Methods of controlling a plant and the environment that plant grows in, such as tilling, fertilization, mowing, pruning, and watering.
Cuticle ✔✔Waxy layer on the outer protective layer of the leaf.
Location effects ✔✔Influence of site conditions, such as exposure, soil type, and moisture, on plants
Mode of action ✔✔The way in which a pesticide exerts a toxic effect on the target plant, annual, or micro organism
Non-selective herbicide ✔✔Chemicals that can kill or damage all plants when applied at adequate rates
Perennial ✔✔Plants that survive from year-to-year
Postemergence Herbicide ✔✔A chemical applied to plants and used to control weeds after they have sprouted
Preemeegence herbicide ✔✔A chemical applied to the soil and used to control weeds prior to their germination.
Pressure sprayer ✔✔The pesticide solution is forced through the spray system at a specific pressure and sprayer speed. The sprayer may have one or several nozzles. Jobs can be handled by low or high pressure sprayers which can be hand carried compressed air or knacksap sprayers
Rhizomes ✔✔An underground stem that spreads to produce new above ground shoots
Soil injection ✔✔The placement of a pesticide below the surface of the soil
Spraygun ✔✔Handheld devices attached to a hose and taking a quick did with the trigger the regulate the application of the liquid from inside the tank
Sprayer overlap ✔✔Intentional application on top of a previous application to account for reduced volume of material applied at the edges of fertilize Asian or herbicide application and to ensure adequate coverage
Systematic herbicides ✔✔There absorbed by the roots or through the foliage and then are translocated to other parts of the plant. Systematic herbicides will work on annual and perennial weeds, but are often used to control perennial weeds
Band Application ✔✔The placement of fertilizers in about 2 in. to one side of and slightly below the seed.
Area of a Rectangle ✔✔L x W = A
Area of a Square ✔✔L x L = A
Area of a Circle ✔✔(3.14 x r)squared = A
Area of a Triangle ✔✔(B x H)/2 = A
Angiosperm ✔✔A flowering plant which forms seeds inside a protective chamber called an ovary.
Gymnosperm ✔✔A plant that has seeds unprotected by an ovary or fruit. They include the conifers, cycads, and ginkgo.
Herbaceous Plants ✔✔Plants that have a smooth and nonwoody stem
Translocation ✔✔The process in which a segment of a chromosome breaks off and attaches to another chromosome.
Microclimate ✔✔The climate in a small area that differs from the climate around it
Cotyledons ✔✔Embryonic leaves of a plant
Ethylene ✔✔A gaseous plant hormone that promotes fruit ripening and opposes auxins in its actions
Plant Node ✔✔Where the plant has the leaves
Plant Internode ✔✔Inbetween nodes
Meristems ✔✔Zones of actively dividing plant cells
Monocots ✔✔Flowering plant whose embryos have one cotyledon
Dicots ✔✔Flowering plant whose embryos have 2 cotyledons.
Carl Linneaus ✔✔Created a two word system for classifying organisms (Binomial Nomenclature)
Mechanical Control ✔✔Insect pest control which uses a purpose-built mechanical device or hands (and feet).
Biological Control ✔✔Insect pest control which uses other predators to eat away the pests
Thatch ✔✔Layer of desnse roots between actively growing grass and the soil surface
Sawflies ✔✔
Spider mite ✔✔
Aphids ✔✔
Bronze Birch Borer ✔✔
Powdery Mildew ✔✔Spots or patches of white to grayish, talcum-powder-like growth
Fairy Ring ✔✔Mushrooms that grow in a circle
Dutch Elm Disease ✔✔A fungal disease of elm trees that is spread by elm bark beetles
Scab Insects ✔✔
Nematodes ✔✔Small roundworms that live in the soil
GPA ✔✔Gallons per Acre
