PESTICIDE ACTIVITIES
Select two of the following activities. Record the information on a word document and share that document with me.
1. Find a plant with a health problem in a landscape or garden. Using your local resources, try to determine the problem. Consider insects and diseases, as well as cultural and environmental problems.
2. Find a plant with obvious insect damage. If you find the insect causing the plant damage, try to identify the insect. If you can’t find the insect on the damaged plant, examine the plant carefully and try to identify the insect by the kind of plant damage inflicted.
3. Visit a nursery or garden center and observe pesticide product labels. Try to find examples of all three signal words. Side from pesticides, what other chemical products can you find that have signal words on their labels or containers?
4. Using a nearby landscape or garden, monitor the environmental conditions of the site. Based on your data, determine the best time of day to apply a pesticide at the site. Weather conditions may change rapidly, so be sure to check the weather forecast before making a decision.
5. Assume you have a large holding tank of pesticide rinse water. Find our where you can dispose of the pesticide rinsate and how much it will cost (including transportation to the toxic-waste disposal site). Now compare this cost to the costs of operating an on-site chemical degradation tank. Remember to spread the cost of purchasing the chemical degradation tank over a period of at least ten years.
Select two of the following activities. Record the information on a word document and share that document with me.
1. Find a plant with a health problem in a landscape or garden. Using your local resources, try to determine the problem. Consider insects and diseases, as well as cultural and environmental problems.
2. Find a plant with obvious insect damage. If you find the insect causing the plant damage, try to identify the insect. If you can’t find the insect on the damaged plant, examine the plant carefully and try to identify the insect by the kind of plant damage inflicted.
3. Visit a nursery or garden center and observe pesticide product labels. Try to find examples of all three signal words. Side from pesticides, what other chemical products can you find that have signal words on their labels or containers?
4. Using a nearby landscape or garden, monitor the environmental conditions of the site. Based on your data, determine the best time of day to apply a pesticide at the site. Weather conditions may change rapidly, so be sure to check the weather forecast before making a decision.
5. Assume you have a large holding tank of pesticide rinse water. Find our where you can dispose of the pesticide rinsate and how much it will cost (including transportation to the toxic-waste disposal site). Now compare this cost to the costs of operating an on-site chemical degradation tank. Remember to spread the cost of purchasing the chemical degradation tank over a period of at least ten years.