Field Crop Pest Management 2009–2010
Section 1, Pest Management
Tables
- Table 2.1-1. Comparison between activities of an ideal IPM program and a routine spray program.
- Table 2.1-2. Key times for corn insect activity.
- Table 2.1-3. Key times for alfalfa insect activity.
- Table 2.1-4. Key times for soybean insect activity.
- Table 2.1-5. Key small-grain insects.
- Table 2.1-6. Field characteristics that increase the likelihood of certain pests in corn.
- Table 2.1-7. Yield reduction from various weed species in corn and soybeans.
- Table 2.1-8. Some herbicide classes, products, and resistant weeds identified in the United States.
- Table 2.1-9. Important herbicide groups for corn, soybean, small grain, forages, and some vegetable crops.
- Table 2.1-10. Common premix herbicides for agronomic crops in Pennsylvania.
Figures
- Figure 2.1-1. Percentage of alfalfa fields with above-threshold weevil infestation in Maryland, 1983 to 1989, and Pennsylvania, 1986 to 1989.
- Figure 2.1-2. Percentage of fields with threshold levels of alfalfa weevil across locations in New York in 1988.
- Figure 2.1-3. Relationship between the economic injury level and the economic threshold with changing economic and biological conditions.
Pest Management
- Activities involved in an IPM program
- Weed management
- Weed control
- Weed Species Shifts
- Herbicide Resistance Management
- Insect Management
- Pesticides and their application
- Using pesticides safely
- Pesticide toxicity
- General Guidelines for Pesticide Safety
- Acute toxicity and acute affects
- Signal words
- Chronic toxicity and chronic affects
- Symptoms of pesticide poisoning
- Responding to pesticide poisoning symptoms
- First aid for pesticide poisoning
- General first aid instructions
- Specific first aid instructions
- Safe storage of pesticides
- Safe disposal of pesticides
- Current status of restricted-use pesticides in Pennsylvania
- Worker Protection Standard for agricultural pesticides
