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Pest Management (Dimasalang National High School)

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Pest Management
(Vegetables) NCII
Quarter 1 – Module 1:
Conducting Field Assessment

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Senior High School - Pest Management NCII

Self – Directed Learning Material
Quarter 1 – Module 1: Conducting Field Assessment
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Pest Management
(Vegetables) NCII
Quarter 1 – Module 1:
Conducting Field Assessment

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Introductory Message

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What I Need to Know

This module was written with you in mind. It is here to help you master the skills in
implementing pest management activities in the backyard and commercial vegetable
farms. The scope of this module permits it to be used in many different learning
situations. The language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of students. The
lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the course. But the order in
which you read them can be changed to correspond with the textbook you are now
using.

This module was anchored on the Curriculum Guide in TLE/TVL –Conducting Field
Assessment under the Agricultural and Fishery Arts component.
At the end of this module, you MUST be able to:

● Visit field for assessment according to farm work procedures

● Observe plant appearance and growth for the possible presence of pests and their
natural enemies, other beneficial organisms and, nutritional disorders according
to farm work procedures
● Identify OHS, assess risks and implement suitable preventive measures
according to farm work procedures
● Take note of the environment and other relevant information about assessment
activities following standard procedure

Remember to:
● Submit outputs to your teacher for evaluation and recording in the Achievement
Chart. Outputs shall serve as your portfolio during the Institutional Competency
Evaluation. When you feel confident that you have had sufficient practice, ask
your teacher to evaluate you. The results of your assessment will be recorded in
your Achievement Chart and Progress Chart.

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What I Know

Please read the questions and choose the letter which corresponds to your answer. Write
your answers in your Activity Notebook.

1. What program refers to the sustainable approach to managing pests by

combining biological, cultural, physical, and chemical tools?
a. Pest Tracking
b. Pest Management
c. Disease Assessment
d. Predator Monitoring

2. Which of the following practices is NOT the key to Pest Prevention?

a. healthy plants
b. poor plant care
c. sufficient water supply
d. maintained farm sanitation

3. Which among the process below that refers to the verification of your
treatment?
a. Evaluation
b. Prevention
c. Monitoring
d. Decision Making

4. What organism that is detrimental and damages the crops?

a. Pest
b. Disease
c. Predator
d. Pathogen

5. Which monitoring tool that is highly recommended as it extends the eyes of the
pest manager?
a. Traps
b. Spatula
c. Putty knife
d. Tracking patches

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Introduction to Integrated
Pest Management (IPM)

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a sustainable approach to managing pests

by combining biological, cultural, physical, and chemical tools in a way that minimizes
economic, health, and environmental risks.

Integrated - means that all feasible types of control strategies are considered and
combined as appropriate to solve a pest problem.

Pests - are unwanted organisms that are a nuisance to man or domestic animals,
and can cause injury to humans, animals, plants, and property. Pests reduce yield
and/or quality in plants ranging from field crops, fruits, and vegetables, to lawns, trees,
and golf courses.

Management - is the process of making decisions in a systematic way to keep

pests from reaching intolerable levels. Small populations of pests can often be tolerated;
total eradication is often not necessary, or feasible.

Why Practice IPM?

You might be wondering why you should even consider IPM when pesticides so
often succeed at controlling pests. Here are some reasons for using a broader approach
to pest management than just the use of pesticides.

• Many IPM practices

• Keep a Balanced Ecosystem.

• Reliance on Pesticides can be Problematic.

• IPM Is Not Difficult.

• Maximize Effectiveness of Control Tactics.

• Promote a Healthy Environment.

• Natural Enemies Conserved.

• Maintain a Good Public Image.

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What’s In

LET’S DEFINE!

The following are important terms that are related to the lesson. Use as
many references as you can to define each of these terms. Be sure to put it in the
context of the lesson.

Pest: A pest is any animal or plants detrimental to humans or human concerns.

The term is particularly used for creatures that damage crops, livestock, and forestry or
cause a nuisance to people, especially in their homes.

Farm Sanitation: An important and highly effective farm practice to keep most
diseases and pests under control. It involves removal and/or destruction of sources of
diseases, pest infestation and weeds from the field.

Insect Traps: Insect traps are used to monitor or directly reduce populations of
insects or other arthropods.

Pest Control: Pest control is the regulation or management of a species defined

as a pest, a member of the animal kingdom that impacts adversely on human activities.

Ocular Inspection: Visual Inspection

Recording: The maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings,

by entering data in ledgers or journals, maintaining archives, etc.

Evaluation: The making of a judgment about the amount, number, or value of

something; assessment.

Are you done? Can we now proceed with our lesson? Alright!

This time, let us start on knowing our pest and how can we
be able to check their presence.

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What’s New

What is a pest?

A pest is any animal or plants detrimental to humans or human concerns. The

term is particularly used for creatures that damage crops, livestock, and forestry or
cause a nuisance to people, especially in their homes. Humans have modified the
environment for their purposes and are intolerant of other creatures occupying the same
space when their activities impact adversely on human objectives.

Agricultural and horticultural crops are attacked by a wide variety of pests, the
most important being insects, mites, nematodes, and gastropod molluscs. The damage
they do results both from the direct injury they cause to the plants and from the indirect
consequences of the fungal, bacterial, or viral infections they transmit.

The Presence of a Pest

A farmer’s field is a complex environment. Many factors play a role in what is

happening in the field. Often it is not possible to give general recommendations because
a lot of management practices may have both a positive and a negative side.

Therefore, it is up to the farmer to make observations in his/her field, to analyze

his/her specific situation, and to make an informed decision.

Some components are shown in Figure 1 below for us to be guided and to be able
to identify the methods to be used in controlling it.

Figure 1. Components of IPM

Decision
Prevention Monitoring Treatment Evaluation
Making

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What is It

•Healthy plants have fewer problems. Plant the appropriate vegetables for the
conditions. Water and plant care are essentials too.
•In our garden and farm, don't leave thrashes from farm waste to avoid
Prevention harborage of pest. Farm sanitation shall be practiced.

• LOOK FOR THE PEST

•What: What are the common vegetable pest in the Philippines?
• When: Established time and frequency of monitoring
• Where: The use of monitoring traps is highly recommended for certain
pest. Practically speaking, these devices are a must. They extend the eyes
of the pest manager to places they cannot see and provide ongoing
coverage.
Monitoring • How: Regular occular checking of a crop field, garden, greenhouse or other
areas and early detection of pests function together like an early warning
system for pests, helping to prevent or minimize a pest outbreak. ("Cornell
University Cooperative Extension," n.d.)

• Learn how problems are measured and predicted.

• Assessment is the process of determining the potential for pest
Decision populations to reach an action threshold. What is the pest, learn
about the pest, decide if management is needed to treat the pest.
Making

•Find out what control alternatives are.

Treatment

• Check the effectivity of your treatment by reviewing the records

Evaluation

NOTE: Early and correct identification of pests is a key to determining our best strategy
for further action. Important information is gathered during inspection and
should be consistently recorded in order to gather all pertinent information about
the pest.

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What’s More

TOUR AROUND THE YARD!

The goal of these tasks are:

1. Learn that people can have different opinions about what a pest is
2. Learn that even if an organism is a pest sometimes, it may be beneficial other
times
3. Learn that there are very few species we consider human pests

Background:
We all think we know what a pest is, but actually, it is a very human-centric
term. An ant may be a pest in the kitchen, but outside they are very beneficial.
Multicolored Asian lady beetles drive us crazy coming indoors in the rainy, but all
summer they are out in our gardens eating pest insects. We tend to label something a
pest when it is doing something to bother us.
Pests can refer to insects, weeds, plant diseases, animals. Depending on the class
you can remain focused on just insect pests, or expand the discussion to other things
humans call pests.

Activity:
Have students spend 3-5 minutes exploring a portion of their backyard gardens
or vegetable plots and write a list of 10 things they call pests (it can be insects, plant
diseases, weeds, and animals) in the task sheet.
Have the students share their list with their parents or guardians. Are there some
organisms not considered as a pest?
There may organisms not considered to be a pest. Have the parents or guardians
explain why and write in the task sheet.
There are also organisms considered to be a pest. Have the parents or guardians
explain why and write in the task sheet on why they agreed about.

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Task Sheet

Name: ___________________________________________ Date: _________________

Year and Section: ________________________________

Write down 10 organisms that you consider to be a pest. These can be animals, insects,
plants, or plant diseases that affect you, your home, your yard, or the plants itself.

1. _____________________________________
2. _____________________________________
3. _____________________________________
4. _____________________________________
5. _____________________________________
6. _____________________________________
7. _____________________________________
8. _____________________________________
9. _____________________________________
10. _____________________________________

Question and Answer:

1. What are the organisms not considered as a pest and why?

_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________

2. What are the organisms considered as a pest and why?

_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
RUBRIC FOR RATING:

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What I Have Learned

 Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a sustainable approach to managing

pests by combining biological, cultural, physical, and chemical tools in a
way that minimizes economic, health, and environmental risks.

 A pest is any animal or plants detrimental to humans or human concerns.

The term is particularly used for creatures that damage crops, livestock,
and forestry or cause a nuisance to people, especially in their homes.

 Prevention, Monitoring, Decision Making, Treatment, and Evaluation are

the 5 components of IPM.

 Healthy plants, sufficient water supply, good plant care, and maintained
farm sanitation is a key to Pest Prevention.

 Farm sanitation is an important and highly effective farm practice to keep

most diseases and pests under control. It involves removal and/or
destruction of sources of diseases, pest infestation and weeds from the
field.

 Monitoring of pest by ocular inspection during specific time intervals with

the aid of traps and other monitoring tools.

 The use of monitoring traps is highly recommended for certain

pest. Practically speaking, these devices are a must. They extend the
eyes of the pest manager to places they cannot see and provide ongoing
coverage.

 Early and correct identification of pests is a key to determining our best

strategy for further action.

 Treatment of pest infestation is done by learning how problems are

measured and predicted.

 Treatments/controls of pest can be done in various ways such as cultural,

biological, physical and chemical control.

 Evaluate the treatment by Monitoring.

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What I Can Do

Challenge yourself!

Below are some of the common organisms in the backyard. In column A draw a
smiling face if you have seen this inside your backyards and a sad face if
you have not. In column B, put a check √ if you think it is a pest and an X if it is not.
Write your answers in a 1 whole sheet of paper.

Organism Column Column Organism Column Column

A B A B
1. Japanese 6. Lady Bug
beetles

2. Caterpillar 7. Mealybug

3. Locust nymph 8. Eggplant-Leaf

Eating Bug

4. Thrips 9. Earthworm

5. Garden snail. 10. Black Bean Aphids

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Assessment

Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer on the given questions below.
Write your answers in an intermediate paper.

1. What organism that is detrimental and damages the crops?

a. Pest
b. Disease
c. Predator
d. Pathogen

2. Which monitoring tool that is highly recommended as it extends the eyes

of the pest manager?
a. Traps
b. Spatula
c. Putty knife
d. Tracking patches

3. What program refers to the sustainable approach to managing pests by

combining biological, cultural, physical, and chemical tools?
a. Pest Tracking
b. Pest Management
c. Disease Assessment
d. Predator Monitoring

4. Which among the process below that refers to the verification of your
treatment?
a. Evaluation
b. Prevention
c. Monitoring
d. Decision Making

5. Which of the following practices is NOT the key to Pest Prevention?

a. healthy plants
b. poor plant care
c. sufficient water supply
d. maintained farm sanitation

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6. Which of the following is the best definition of pest?

a. An insect that carries disease.
b. A plant that grows somewhere that it is not wanted.
c. Any insect, plant, rodent, or fungus that causes harm or is
unwanted.
d. Cockroaches, mice, rats, and other animals that we don't want in
our homes.
7. Which of the following would you most want to see in your garden?
a. ladybug
b. aphid
c. whitefly
d. cabbage looper

8. Which statement about pest management strategies in IPM is True?

a. Eradication is never the goal of an IPM program.
b. The goal is to prevent pests from reaching damaging levels.
c. Nonchemical methods are short-term solutions to control pests.
d. None of the above

9. Which would be considered a preventive pest management strategy?

a. Planting weed and disease free seed on an athletic field.
b. Releasing natural enemies to help reduce pest populations.
c. Removing a pest that is a public health concern from an area.
d. None of the above

10. What is a sign that your far has a rodent infestation?

a. Food and products disappearing from the shelves
b. You hear the sound of a tiny television inside the wall
c. Loud chewing and scratching sounds in walls and ceilings
d. Dark brown droppings that is spindle shape - like a grain of rice.

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Additional Activities

Watch Me!
Select a pest from your listing in Activity “TOUR AROUND THE YARD!”. Create a
trap and monitor for a day using your available monitoring tools. Elaborate the process
being done during the monitoring process through the diagram in a form of infographics,
poster, narrative, or photo collage.
Make sure to include the details below:
 Name of Pest
 Monitoring Tools
 Process of Monitoring
 Results of Monitoring

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What I Know What’s More
1. b Enumeration:
2. b 1 to 10. Answers may vary
3. a
4. a Question & Answer:
5. a 1. Answers may vary
2. Answers may vary
What I Can Do Assessment
COLUMN A: Answers may vary 1. a 6. c
COLUMN B: 2. a 7. a
1. X 6. X 3. b 8. a
9. b
2.  7.  4. a
10.a
3.  8.  5. b
4.  9. X
5.  10. 
Answer Key
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References

Electronic Resources

Source: Introduction to IPM. (n.d.). from https://www.ipm.iastate.edu/files/page/

files/Unit 1 - lesson 1 Introduction to IPM.pdf on June 8, 2020\

Source: Gardner, R. (n.d.). Monitoring (scouting) from

https://pesticidestewardship.org/ipm/monitoring/ on June 8, 2020

Source: Oxford Languages. “Oxford Languages and Google - English -.”

Languages.Oup.Com, 2020, languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/ on
October 16, 2020.

Source: “Recordkeeping Definition and Meaning | Collins English Dictionary.”

Www.Collinsdictionary.Com, from www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/
english/recordkeeping on October 16, 2020

Source: What is a pest. (2010, November) from https://www1.health.gov.au/internet

publications/publishing.nsf/Content/ohp-enhealth-manual-atsi-cnt-l~ohp-
enhealth-manual-atsi-cnt-l-ch5~ohp-enhealth-manual-atsi-cnt-l-ch5.1 on
June 8, 2020

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