Vector And Pest Management

 

What is Vector?

• Vector is an organisms, typically a biting insect or tick that transmits a disease or parasites from one animal or plant to another.

• Examples of vector are such as mosquitoes, cockroaches, flies, fleas and ticks are vector of disease.

What is Pest

• A destructive insect or other animal that attacks crops,food, livestock, etc

• Example of pest is rodent, cockroaches, mildew, algae, plant insects. Cockroaches, house ants, termites.

- There have several types of pest, it is such as rodents, flies, cockroaches, termites, fleas,      bedbugs, beetles, birds, bacteria, fungi, nematodes, lice, ticks, weed, and weevil larvae.

What is difference between vector and pest?

 ~Vector  

   - is an organism that carries a pathogen with it.

   - an example would be malaria-carrying mosquitos.

 ~Pest
   - are in themselves the problems and usually refer to insect or animals that destroy crops.

What is Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

 :: Integrated Pest Management, or IPM is a process you can use to solve problems while minimize risks  to people and the environment. IPM can be used to manage all kinds of pests in urban, agricultural, and wild land or natures areas.

 ::  Three basic steps
     i) inspections
     ii) identifications
     iii) treatment

Control Method

There are four general methods to manage insects, disease and weed problems.

i) Physical or mechanical method.

  - kill a pest directly or make the environment unsuitable for it.

  - fly screensor trapping.

ii) Cultural method.

   - practises that reduce pest establishment, reproduction, dispersal, and survival.

   - changing irritation practices can reduce pest problems , since too much water can increase root disease and weeds.

iii) Biological method. 

   - predators, parasites, pathogens, and competitors to control pests and their damage.

iv) Chemical method. 

   - is the used of pesticides

Why used Integrated pest Management?

1. Prevent the spread of disease 
2. To prevent wastage of food
3. To prevent damage
4. To comply with the law

              - Pesticides Act 1974 ( Pest Control Operator ) Rules 2004 

              - Plant Quarantines Act 1976

              - Plant Quarantines Regulation 1981