PPT-General guide to the recognition of plant pests and diseases

Aim of the presentation To provide an overview of the types of pest and disease that cause damage on plants and produce To demonstrate the types of symptoms that each type of pest or disease can cause. What is a pest ?. Facts about cockroaches. Facts about blow fly. Facts about possums. Facts about rabbits . . What is a pest?. A pest is an animal . o. r insect that eats plants and food, ruins farm land and are just plain annoying. Terms. Abiotic. plant disease. —caused by unfavorable . growing conditions.. Biotic plant disease. —caused by plant pathogens. .. Pathogen. - . an infectious, biological agent such as a virus, bacteria or fungus that causes disease to its host.. The Not-So-Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Predators and Pests. What We Will Cover . Mites: Tracheal and . Varroa. Small Hive Beetle. Wax Moths. Ants, Spiders, Earwigs. Wasps, Hornets, Yellow Jackets. Mice. IPM training for . retail store staff members. Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program. Andrew Sutherland. SF Bay Area . Urban IPM Advisor. UCCE and UC IPM. Training outline. Basic biology, ecology, and general management of common pests; review of UC IPM materials. Extension Entomologist Emerita . UC Davis. Invasive/Exotic Pests in the Garden and Landscape. for Garden Center Employees. What’s an exotic invasive pest?. Exotic. —not native to the local ecosystem. Objective 8.02. Discuss diseases and viruses.. Diseases. A disease is a plant disorder caused by an infectious pathogen or agent. Diseases. There are 3 conditions necessary for diseases in plants. host plant. By Miharu Furuta. Introduction. M. any. people use rice daily, without knowing the difficult process of growing it. . The . rice plant is an annual . plant that . produces an edible seed, . called rice. in the Greenhouse. The Greenhouse: . A Plant Pest “Factory” . Most GH plants are susceptible to one or more diseases and pests. Humidity tends to be high in the greenhouse. Greenhouse temperatures tend to favor one or more pathogens. FOREST AND TREE PESTS AND DISEASES MANAGMENT IN AFRICA By The Inter-African Phytosanitary Council of African Union (AU-IAPSC) OUTLINE INTRODUCTION OCCURRENCE, DISTRIBUTION AND MANAGEMENT OF FOREST PESTS IN AFRICA Executive Directorship. Organismo Internacional Regional de Sanidad Agropecuaria. Dirección Ejecutiva. Report to the 27. th. Technical Consultation among. Regional Plant Protection Organizations. Memphis, Tennessee, USA - November 2015 . Kathy Murray. Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. Ticks and Mosquitoes. Grade to eliminate standing water. Eliminate water-collecting containers . Mow grass, brush-out shrubby areas. Insects. Sap suckers. Chewers and tunnellers. Mites. Nematodes. Insect pests – sap suckers. Photos: . Top: woolly aphid on apple, mealybugs. Bottom: whitefly scales, scale insects. Different types of sap-sucker. Malcolm Borg. D. Director, IAS- Centre for Agriculture, Aquatics & Animal Sciences (MCAST) . What are pests? What are diseases?. A disease is an adverse condition in plants caused by micro-organisms such as bacteria, fungi and viruses. . . . CAUSES OF PLANT INJURY. . BIOTIC AGENTS . – These are _________ organisms. . that can ___________ plants.. Ex. Insects, _________, fungus,. . bacteria, and _________ .