Pesticide Safety Education

Front 1

List the three main objectives of integrated pest Management

Back 1

Reduce pesticide damage

Prevent disease that are carry-on caused by pests; and

Minimize the adverse effects of management efforts on human health, property, and the environment.

Front 2

Recognize that IPM focuses as much on the cause of pest problem as on the pest themselves

Back 2

IPM involves removing causes of pest problems rather than just treating the pest.

Front 3

Recognize the role of housekeeping and of customer involvement in effective pest Management

Back 3

Lasting success is possible only if you understand and correct the reason leading to the infestation. There is no single, simple remedy to solve pest problems in a lasting way. Several approaches are usually more effective than only one, provide you coordinate them so that they are combined or synergistic effect

Front 4

Describe how you can use landscaping to discourage pests from congregating around a building's foundation.

Back 4

Shortgrass, neatly trim shrubs not in contact with structure, pave access ways, and proper drainage reduce or eliminate shelter areas for pests. Also remove any Vines from exterior walls. Rodents and arthropods can be further discourage by surrounding the building foundation with a 18-to 24 inch strip of 1/2 inch pebble rock in a trench 6 to 12 inches deep.

Front 5

Explain why outdoor lighting can draw pest and what can be done to prevent this.

Back 5

If a light is near the entrance, you can make it less attractive to insects by substituting sodium vapor lights for mercury vapor are by using dicrom yellow lights instead of incandescent flood lights or

standard light bulbs.

Front 6

Recognize that excluding pest from a site is more important than focusing on how to deal with pest after they infest a site.

Back 6

One of the first elements of a successful IPM program is identifying ways pest enter a structure and making modifications to prevent access. In any structure, it is far better to prevent entry of pest rather than to wait until pest have entered and possibly establish themselves before taking action.

Front 7

Provide examples of exclusion techniques that you or the customer can use to prevent volunteer pests from entering a building.

Back 7

Modifying and maintaining the structure to eliminate harborage and prevent pest entry is essential. Doors need to be tight fitting and self-closing. Repairs or replace torn screens on outside doors and windows. Metal frames around windows and doors are preferred over wood structures to prevent rodents from gnawing into a structure. Air curtains can also be installed to keep flying insects from entering open doors.

Front 8

Provide features of doors and windows that will help prevent pest problems

Back 8

Metal frames around windows and doors are preferred over Wood construction

Front 9

Describe how captive pest are brought into a building

Back 9

On pallets, food packages, and corrugated cardboard cartons.

Front 10

State the purpose of sanitation

Back 10

Its purpose is to reduce or even eliminate the food, water, harborage, and breeding sites required by the pest.

Front 11

List the steps you can take to keep garbage from becoming the source of pest problems.

Back 11

Remove waste food, clean up spillage and trash immediately, and keep the garbage storage area clean and the lids tight fitting.

Unless these containers can be stored where pest cannot get access to them, suggest not putting garbage into containers until the day of pickup.

used metal containers to prevent rodents from chewing through. Plastic lids or dumpsters are easily penetrated by raccoons and squirrels. Customers need to check trash bags for leaks before hauling them out to a dumpster any leaking garbage or liquid will create a trail for pasta follow from dumpster right into the building

Front 12

Explain how clean food handling equipment impacts pest

Back 12

Clean food equipment immediately after use. Eliminate this food source and place stress on the pest population by starving them.

Front 13

List and describe the five basic rules for properly storing items so as to prevent pest problems

Back 13

Inspect incoming materials. Though we have already discussed this practice with respect to excluding captive pest, it is a key component to proper storage.

Secure food items. Take care to maintain the integrity of food packaging. Store open food packages in resealable containers.

Off the floor. Keeping items off the floor provide several advantages. It reduces the risk of water damage from condensation on concrete floors, for example that can attract pests.

Away from walls. in a commercial building, materials should be stored at least 18 in away from the wall on a pallet, rack, or shelf.

FIFO.this method of stock rotation helps reduce harborage and dry food and non-food supply in storage.

Front 14

Identify the three things you are looking for when conducting a site inspection.

Back 14

Signs of pest and pest damage,

Presence of pest basic life needs food ,water, harborage and breeding sites.

Routes of pests access to those life needs

Front 15

Give general ideal of how, when, and where to look for pest problems during inspection and what information you should record

Back 15

keep pests behavior in mind as you are inspecting. Rodents and cockroaches been very little time out in open away from walls and cover you need to look in cracks and crevices, behind and under appliances, and a plumbing lines.record the number of pest trap, location, and species the body position of an insect on a sticky trap.

Front 16

List of four types of information that pest monitoring will provide.

Back 16

Locate areas of pest activity;

Identify pest species;

Estimate pest population size; and

Identify causative conditions such as food, water, shelter, modes of entry, and human behavior

Front 17

Describe the four basic monitoring methods

Back 17

Manual sampling manual sampling calls for collecting a known sample volume from a substance suspected to contain pest

Trapping. Trapping is most widely used monitoring technique. In some pest situations it can also be the primary method of control

Mechanical traps. Mechanical traps are used primarily for rodents

Insect lore traps

Front 18

Describe the different types of traps you can use, including how they work and when they can be useful

Back 18

Sticky traps. Flypaper is often used to monitor insects in confined spaces.

mechanical tracks. Mechanical traps are used primarily for rodents

is circle or tracks insect traps can be used several purposes in San Francisco can be used to detect low-level populations locate problem areas of harbridge monitor population change.

Front 19

Describe the different types of traps you can use, including how they work.

Back 19

Sticky traps: glueboard are place in runways where they capture rodents and crawling insects for identification and counting.

Mechanical traps:Mechanical traps are used primarily for rodents. Examples include springs your traps which catch and kill a single individual.

Insect lure traps:insect traps can be of many designs, but many make use of attractants on lures. Insects are attracted to chemicals and physical cues and their environment this includes pheromones food chemicals, and light

Light traps:adult flies and moths are frequent targets for light traps. Adult fleas are also captured in light tracks.

Front 20

Discuss the placement, maintenance, and catch assessment of pheromone traps

Back 20

Traps are needed in areas with a previous history of infestation.

Place traps in receiving and storage areas.

create a grid pattern of an entire room or facility,i.e. storage at 25 to 50 ft intervals.

Placement outside the area of concern serves as an early warning sentry.

Do not put them near doors or Windows to avoid luring insects into the facility.

Do not place them over expose food or ingredients.

Front 21

Define thresholds and what factors help determine what the threshold will be.

Back 21

Thresholds are levels that mark the highest acceptable point a pest population can reach without risk of significant damage.

the threshold for an action against past may be determined by economic, medical, or esthetics considerations.