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How can tiny mites on junipers and evergreens be found? ✔✔They can be found by tapping the leaves against a white index card several times
What is Phytotoxicity? ✔✔Plant damage caused by pesticides
Resistance from pesticides comes from... ✔✔Using the same pesticide over and over again
Pesticides in the soil... ✔✔Are eventually broken down by bacteria and fungi
When should you apply a pesticide? ✔✔When pests are abundant enough to cause unacceptable damage
In an IPM program you should... ✔✔Produce healthy plants that can resist pests
Which is true? ✔✔Different diseases and insects can cause the same symptoms
Which is false? ✔✔Record keeping takes more time than it is worth
What is Thatch? ✔✔The layer of living and dead plant stems, leaves, and roots that develops between the soil surface and green vegetation
What does proper mowing mean? ✔✔Using sharp blades to make a clean cut
To promote healthy turf and reduce disease... ✔✔Water thoroughly when you first see wilting
When fertilizing... ✔✔Determine fertilizer need through results of a soil test
Which is false? ✔✔Thatch should be a least 2 inches thick to keep soil cool
Cool-season cultivars... ✔✔Can be mixed to minimize disease
Good soil drainage... ✔✔Promotes healthy turfgrass
2.) Billbug damage is easy to diagnose boy gabbing hold of the turf and PULLING OR ROLLING IT BACK
What are some characteristics of Chinch Bugs? ✔✔1.) They feed in clusters and damage first appears as circular patches of yellowing turf that resemble drought injury
What kinds of pests feed on roots? ✔✔1.) White grubs and mole crickets are the most serious root-feeding pests on turf grasses in the southern states
The immature stages of Japanese beetles, Green June beetles, Masked chafers, and Oriental beetles are... ✔✔White grubs
What are some characteristics of Japanese beetles? ✔✔1.) Grubs feed on roots and organic matter at the soil-thatch junction
What are some characteristics of the Masked chafer? ✔✔1.) Turf heavily infested with masked chafers shows drought stress and dead patches that do not recover after irrigation
2.) Infested turf lifts easily
What are some characteristics of Mole Crickets? ✔✔1.) Tawny and southern mole crickets are the most damaging insect pests of warm-season turf grasses in the southern states
How do you detect Mole crickets, Sod Webworms, Armyworms, and other Caterpillars? ✔✔By the soap and water flush by mixing 2 ounces of dishwasher fluid and the insects will be irritated by the dishwashing liquid and rise to the surface
Which method will NOT help monitor cutworms? ✔✔Pitfall trapes
Apply an insecticide... ✔✔When the insect is at its most vulnerable stage
Bacillus thuringiensis... ✔✔Controls caterpillars
The milky spore bacterium... ✔✔Is only effective agains Japanese beetle grubs
To control fire ants... ✔✔Use a combination of broadcast bait treatments
Sod webworms... ✔✔Spin silk webbing near the soil in turf
Perennial weeds... ✔✔Can live indefinitely
Dandelions... ✔✔Have a sturdy taproot
Winter annual broadleaf weeds are... ✔✔Best controlled in mid to late fall and early winter
What are some characteristics of Brown patch? ✔✔1.) Most common disease of tall fescue in the southeast
2.) Causes irregular rings or patches of brown or tan foliage and a grayish "smoke ring" around the margins of the patches may also be evident on close-cut turf in the early morning
What are some characteristics of Large patch? ✔✔1.) Disease of warm-season turf and centipede and St. Augustine are the most susceptible
2.) Develops in the fall and spring when temps are cool and the warm-season grasses are growing slowly
3.) Symptoms usually appear in the spring as the turf is greening up from winter dormancy
4.) Irregular brown, yellow, or orange patches of thin turf are initially 1-2 ft. in diameter
What are some characteristics of Dollar spot? ✔✔1.) Small bleached white spots from 1-2 inches in diameter develop
2.) Bleached white lesions with distinct reddish-brown margins
What are some characteristics or Pythium blight? ✔✔1.) Round to irregular spots from1 inch in diameter on closer mowed turf
Which factor is not a component of the disease pyramid? ✔✔Fungicide
Spring dead spot in bermudagrass... ✔✔Occurs after winter dormancy
What is a major advantage of systemic fungicides for management of turf diseases? ✔✔They translocate to protect newly formed tissue
To reduce gray leaf spot in St. Augustine grass... ✔✔Irrigate early in the morning to give the turf time to dry out completely before evening
Which cultural practice increases the risk of several turf diseases? ✔✔Excessive nitrogen fertilizer
Plants with fibrous root systems near the surface of the ground... ✔✔Should be fertilized sparingly
When pruning large branches... ✔✔Make three cuts to avoid tearing the bark
What are some characteristics of Azalea lace bugs? ✔✔1.) They cause a blotched or spotted appearance of the upper leaf surface
Horticultural oils are especially useful for control of which pests? ✔✔Mites, aphids, and armored scales
When is the best time to use insecticides against soft scale insect? ✔✔During the crawler stage
Which is a piercing-sucking insect? ✔✔Aphid
What is the difference between the webs of eastern tent caterpillars and fall webworms? ✔✔The eastern tent caterpillar makes webs in a tree crotch while the fall webworm makes webs over leaves at the ends of branches
Which is a winter annual? ✔✔Carolina geranium
Which is a Broadleaf biennial? ✔✔Bull thistle
Which is a Broadleaf perennial? ✔✔1.) Woodsorrel
2.) Florida betony
3.) Dock
4.) Poison ivy
Mulches... ✔✔Smother new weed seedlings by keeping out light
Pre-emergence herbicides... ✔✔Persist in the soil for 2 months or more
Post-emergence herbicides ... ✔✔1.) Control most plants after they emerge
2.) Can damage plants when spray contacts green bark
Which weed will spray from rhizomes? ✔✔Bermudagrass
