Types of crop pests, effects and control measures

Types of crop pests, effects and control measures

Types of crop pests
Field Pests:

1. Aphids
They are very small and attack mostly kales, cabbages sucking the juice and destroying the plants

2. Cut worms
They cut the stems of young plants this destroying the plants

3. Stalk borers
They attack the plants’ stalk stem e g maize

Storage Pests:
1. Weevil birds They eat the green maize in the garden this opening the green covering of the maize.

2. Rodents Like rats eat the grains in the granary or the store
Weevils They are very tiny they make holes in the grains such as maize, wheat e t c while in the store or granary.

3. White ants They attack the timbers unless treated with chemicals

Effects of Pests on Crops
• Lowers the yields
• Reduce quality of the produce
• Transmits diseases to crops
• Cause diseases to consumers

Pest Control Measures:

Trapping:
-It is done by poisoning what they like e.g. use of “red cat” in sugary solution to kill mites.

Hand picking:
Guarding then you catch and kill

Weeding:
Involves clearing weeds in farm so that pests have no hiding places, because they don’t like to be seen in the open space.

Spraying:
Use pesticides to eradicate them

Pruning:
Involves removal of unwanted parts of the plants that can attract or affected by the pests to reduce their rate of spreading.

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raphael answered the question on October 9, 2018 at 04:17

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