Pest Management Terms

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Across
  1. 2. Period between pesticide application and crop harvest
  2. 4. Pesticide toxic to target pest
  3. 9. Leaf formed within seed and present at germination
  4. 11. Metamorphosis where larvae are distinctly different from adults
  5. 13. Disorder caused by factors other than pathogens
  6. 15. Organism derives its food from body of another organism
  7. 16. Plant with two cotyledons
  8. 19. Chemical that changes way a plant grows
  9. 21. Pesticide that only affects pests in areas where it has contacted
  10. 24. Pest able to survive effects of pesticide
  11. 25. Potential for a pesticide to cause harm after multiple exposures
  12. 26. Plant that completes life cycle in two years
  13. 27. Act of keeping pests away from crops
  14. 29. Way a pesticide kills a pest
  15. 32. Pesticide which dries pests out
  16. 33. Organism that is a a pollinator or a predater or parasite of pests
  17. 35. Mixing device mechanically transfers pesticide from container to mix tank
  18. 37. Plant that has one cotyledon
  19. 39. Immature form of insect
  20. 40. Animal having no spine or internal skeleton
  21. 42. Plant that completes life cycle in single year
Down
  1. 1. Secretion of organism to affect behavior of members of same species
  2. 2. Substances injurious to plants
  3. 3. Using natural enemies to control pests
  4. 4. Capable of moving throughout organism's vascular system
  5. 5. Point which pest is numerous enough that management action is necessary
  6. 6. Process where liquid or solid changes into vapor
  7. 7. Plant that can live three or more years
  8. 8. Pesticide that either is gas or becomes gas after applied
  9. 10. Trailing, aboveground stem or shoot
  10. 12. Change in form takes place during development
  11. 14. Management practices to prevent or decrease pests
  12. 17. Management strategy that focuses on long-term prevention
  13. 18. Pest that is intended to be destroyed
  14. 20. Horizontal, underground stem
  15. 22. Pesticide able to move throughout plant
  16. 23. Period pesticide application and when people can re-enter
  17. 28. High hazard pesticide only applied by certified applicator
  18. 30. Metamorphosis where nymphs commonly resemble the adults
  19. 31. Disease-causing organism
  20. 33. Flowering vascular dicot plant
  21. 34. Unhealthy condition caused by a pathogen
  22. 36. Organism that provides sustenance for parasite or pathogen
  23. 38. Insecticide prevents reproducing adult phase
  24. 41. Substance added to pesticide to improve pesticide handling, performance, or safety