Notebook

You are expected to keep a notebook of your work that you may have to present to your instructor at the completion of the course. The notebook should contain all homework assignments and any other information relevant to the course. Writing in the notebook should be done neatly by hand and drawings should be used whenever possible to illustrate your work. Notebooks will be graded according to completeness, neatness and general overall quality. Your notebook will reflect the amount of time and care you have put into this course.

1. Read Chapters 9 and 10, Control of Insect Outbreaks and Pest management Decisions, of your textbook Forest Insects: Principles and Practice of Population Management and make notes and drawings in your notebook.
2. Do the problems specified below and send your answers to your instructor.
3. Go through Session 6 on the Internet and make notes in your notebook.

Problem

Describe the tactics being used by the US Forest Service to contain and suppress the gypsy moth. You will need to read and summarize information from the Gypsy Moth Homepage and Gypsy Moth News.

Questions

Questions similar to those below may appear on the first examination. You can practice your knowledge of this session by answering these questions and checking the answers against the information in the reading or Internet.

1. Under what conditions is containment an effective pest control strategy?
2. When is containment not an effective strategy?
3. Under what conditions is suppression an effective pest control strategy?
4. When is suppression not an effective strategy?
5. What is the economic damage level?
6. Why is it important to aim for optimal rather than maximum kill during suppression operations?
7. What determines the success or failure of a suppression operation against an eruptive population?
8. What is a persistent pesticide?
9. What is a selective pesticide?
10. What is meant by the biomagnification of a pesticide residue?
11. What is the residual effect of a pesticide?
12. What is meant by pesticide registration?
13. What is a systemic pesticide?
14. What is a broad-spectrum pesticide?
15. What is the LD50 of a pesticide?
16. What is meant by pest population resurgence, or rebound?
17. What causes secondary pest outbreaks?
18. Explain how insects become resistant to pesticides.
19. What are organochlorine pesticides?
20. How do organochlorine pesticides kill insects?
21. What are organophosphate pesticides?
22. How do organophosphate pesticides kill insects?
23. What are the good things about organophosphate pesticides?
24. What are the bad things about organophosphate pesticides?
25. What are carbamate pesticides?
26. What are botanical pesticides?
27. Name two botanical pesticides.
28. What are growth regulators?
29. What is a pesticide formulation composed of?
30. What methods are used to apply pesticides to forests?
31. What is Bt?
32. What are the advantages of microbial pesticides?
33. What is a pheromone?
34. What is a kairomone?
35. What is an allomone?
36. What is an anti-aggregation pheromone?
37. Give an example of the use of an anti-aggregation pheromone in pest suppression.
38. Give an example of the use of pheromones for mass trapping pests.
39. How can pheromones be used to disrupt mating behavior?
40. How can pheromones be used to contain pest outbreaks?
41. What is the sterile male technique?
42. When would one use the sterile male technique?
43. What are the 4 basic questions a forest manager should ask about insect pests on his/her lands?
44. What factors reduce the salvage value of insect-killed trees?
45. How does the growth of trees respond to insect defoliation?
46. What is a decision support system?
47. What is integrated pest management?

E-mail your instructor to let him know that you have finished this session: berryman@mail.wsu.edu

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