Home Vegetable Garden Insect Pest Control
Name : Home Vegetable Garden Insect Pest Control.
Category : Home and Garden
Files Source: www.pods.dasnr.okstate.edu
File Added : August 3, 2010
Size : 3,45 MB
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This online pdf files about what is an insect pest?, monitoring pest insects in the home garden, identify the insect, identify the damage, key pests, controlling pests, cultural control, biological control, pesticides, application of pesticides, and other.
Content summary :
“For purposes of this Fact Sheet, we classify insects and mites as pests based on their ability to damage vegetable plants and reduce your harvest from the home garden. Many insects, and all spiders, found in home vegetable gardens are beneficial and control of these insects is not recommended. Insects and mites can move into your garden and then rapidly increase in numbers. You should examine plants in and around the garden throughout the season at least twice weekly. Use magnification to aid in identifying insects and mites. Examine a few plants of each cultivar thoroughly, searching under leaves, inside developing fruit, along stems and at the plant crown. Note feeding damage signs such as insect excrement, holes in leaves or fruit and/or twisted or deformed leaves. Make notes indicating the number or extent of damage from week to week to aid in determining whether insects and/or damage is increasing. Color photos of the most common insect pests and descriptions of others are included in this fact sheet. You should be able to develop a general classification of the pest based on this information. Once you have identified the pest, you should classify the type and amount of damage it is causing. Damage is classified by how the pests feed.
Chewing damage – Insects with ‘cutting’ mouthparts tear off plant tissue and chew it. Examples include beetles, caterpillars and grasshoppers that feed on fruit or leaves and often leave holes in the plant tissue or foliage. These insects defecate on plants and soil leaving, excrement that may be brown, black or green in color and resemble small flecks or balls.
Piercing, sucking damage – Insects and mites with piercing mouthparts insert their mouthparts into the plant tissue and ‘suck’ liquids from the plants. Examples include squash bugs, aphids, stink bugs, thrips and mites. Many of the insects that feed in this manner defecate a sticky liquid (honeydew) that often builds up on leaves or fruit, leaving a shiny residue that may support the growth of a black or gray sooty mold. Damaged foliage often will turn yellow and eventually brown in color or become malformed in shape……” Download for more information!!
