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Inspect the plants daily.
Place yellow and blue sticky cards, indicator plants or potato slices out.
Look for activity. |
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Identifiy the pest.
If possible determine the current life stage.
If you don't know ASK someone.
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Decide what actions to take.
Biological, Cultural and/or Chemical. |
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Take action!
Implement the control methods. |
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Re-inspect the plants.
Did the control methods work?
Does another method need to be implemented? |
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Write down:
what you found,
what controls were used
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what happened. |
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Learn about new control methods.
Stay up to date on local pest problems. |
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