HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
INSECT PESTS OF FRUITS PLANTATION MEDICINAL AROMATIC CROPS VEGETABLE ORNAMENTAL AND SPICE CROPS
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Question
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Pests can be which of the following?
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Weeds
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Trees
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Vegetables
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Ornamental crops
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: –Pests include insects, nematodes, mites, snails, slugs, etc. and vertebrates like rats, birds, etc.
Detailed explanation-2: -The animal groups of the greatest importance as agricultural pests are (in order of economic importance) insects, mites, nematodes and gastropod molluscs. Insects are responsible for two major forms of damage to crops.
Detailed explanation-3: -Some common examples of these pest insects are-caterpillars, beetles, grasshopper, locusts, leaf worms, armyworms, termites, etc.
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