How much do we know?

Take out a piece of paper… # Number from 1-25

1. What is this?

2. What is it?

3. What is going on Here?

4. What is the bug on the top of the picture?

5. What is that faster moving red one?

6. What are these?

7. What type of scale

8. If we’re not sure of the pest, what do we know from he picture

9. What is happening here?

10. What is arrow pointing to?

11. What kind of damage is it? Typical of what pest?

12. What type of pest is it?

13. What are these 3 things… 1. 3. 2.

14. Name that host specific pest

15. What is that cute beetle?

16. Identify this beetle

17. Identify good guy

Answers Part #1 1. Cottony cushion scale 2. Lady bug larva 3. Exit holes (aphid mummies) 4. Encarsia wasp 5. Predatory mite 6. Green lace wing eggs 7. Soft scale 8. They’ve been attacked by a parasitoid 9. Encarsia wasp getting ready to lay egg 10. Mealy bug 11. Stippling – Thrip (because of silver color) 12. Armored scale 13. Aphid, Aphid mummy, Ant 14. Crape myrtle aphid 15. Mealy bug destroyer (adult) 16. Twice stabbed lady beetle 17. Aphitis wasp laying egg in a scale

Flip your paper over, Number 21 – 34. Lets see how good we are… In 21 – 40 we want to: Answer the question And where appropriate: - Good guy or bad guy - life stage

21. Identify

22. Identify this bug

23. A. B. Which one produces honey dew? Which ones shell can be popped off?

24. Identify

25. Identify

26. What type of insect?

27. Identify insect

28. You see this on a Jacaranda tree. What is it most likely

29. You see this on a pine tree. It seems to have longer legs than most of its type. What is it?

30. B. A. A and B are the same insect… what is B specifically

31. What is this “wolf in sheep’s clothing”

32. A. B. One of these eggs belong to the brown lace wing. A or B?

33. Hibiscus leaf Name that pest

34. C. A. B. D. E. Which one is the convergent lady beetle?

Answers 21- 34 21. Big-eyed bug (adult, good guy) 22. Western damsel bug (good guy, nymph) 23. A, B. 24. Tachnid fly (good guy, adult) 25. Brown lace wing (adult, good guy) 26. Giant white fly (eggs, pest) Surfid fly (adult, good guy) Bean aphid (adult, bad) Conifer aphid (adult, bad) Brown lace wing larval hatching out from egg Mealy bug destroyer (larval stage, good guy) A. A. (good) Giant white fly (4th instar stage, bad) D. (adult good guy)

IPM- Integrated Pest Management IPM is based on scientific research IPM focuses on long-term prevention of pests or their damage by managing the ecosystem In IPM, monitoring and correct pest identification help you decide whether management is needed IPM programs combine management approaches for greater effectiveness

IPM Monitoring Identification Action Thresholds Prevention Control IIPM IPM Action Thresholds Prevention Control

Controls Biological control Biological control is the use of natural enemies—predators, parasites, pathogens, and competitors—to control pests and their damage. Invertebrates, plant pathogens, nematodes, weeds, and vertebrates have many natural enemies. Cultural controls Cultural controls are practices that reduce pest establishment, reproduction, dispersal, and survival. For example, changing irrigation practices can reduce pest problems, since too much water can increase root disease and weeds. UCIPM

Controls Mechanical and physical controls Chemical control Mechanical and physical controls kill a pest directly or make the environment unsuitable for it. Traps for rodents are examples of mechanical control. Physical controls include mulches for weed management, steam sterilization of the soil for disease management, or barriers such as screens to keep birds or insects out. Chemical control Chemical control is the use of pesticides. In IPM, pesticides are used only when needed and in combination with other approaches for more effective, long-term control. Also, pesticides are selected and applied in a way that minimizes their possible harm to people and the environment. With IPM you'll use the most selective pesticide that will do the job and be the safest for other organisms and for air, soil, and water quality; use pesticides in bait stations rather than sprays; or spot-spray a few weeds instead of an entire area. Legal controls Legal controls have to do with governmental mandates in the form of quarantines. Quarantines can be international, state wide or regional

Control Types of control in a back yard. List some things we might do to control pest in a residential back yard and what type of control that is