Ipm Quiz 3 - Plant Conservatory

Front 1

Scale insect

Back 1

Pest of ornamental grass, reduce seeding with heavy infestation, originally from greenhouse where sugar cane was grown, use systematic neonicotinoid applied to pots

Front 2

Whiteflies

Back 2

Tap phloem of plant and suck fluids, monitor using blue/yellow sticky traps

Front 3

Spider mites

Back 3

Suck fluids from plants, produce silk, use predatory mites as biocontrol or apply pesticides

Front 4

Thrips

Back 4

Consume flowers and pollen, attracted to yellow/white flowers, monitor using yellow sticky traps, marigolds as trap crop, control with parasitoid nematode/Cucumeris mite

Front 5

Mealybug

Back 5

Citrus mealybug and longtail mealybug, suck fluids from plants, control with predatory beetle

Front 6

Nematode parasitoids

Back 6

Control thrips, apply in watering system, develop inside thrips and burst out of body, sold as "Nemesis"

Front 7

Predatory mites

Back 7

Californicus mites and persimilis mites control spider mites, Cucumeris mite controls thrips

Front 8

Parasitoid eggs

Back 8

Small packet containing whitefly eggs parasitized by wasps, mature wasps emerge and search for host for their offspring

Front 9

Predatory beetle

Back 9

Look similar to its prey, controls mealybug

Front 10

Marigold as trap crop

Back 10

Clip off marigold flower that shows thrip damage to remove thrips, marigolds good alternate host for biocontrol species, sweet alyssum good alternate host for parasitoids