Biological Control Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• quarantine: regulatory mechanism in export and import
• exclusion: keeping out
• beneficial: any organism that benefits the growing process
• phytophagous: feeding on plants
• entomophagous: feeding on insects
• resistance: defense mechanisms of plants
• pesticide: substance used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to cultivated plants or to animals.
• biological: control using living organism to suppress pest population
• predator: insects that is usually larger than its prey
• parasitoid: requires single host to complete its life cycle
• nutrition: assimilation by living organisms of food materials enabling them to grow and reproduce
• feeding: taking of food
• utilization: proper biological use of food
• protein: an essential macronutrient
• fatty acid: important component of lipid
• glucose: simple sugar
• nectar: serves chiefly to attract pollinators
• hostfeeding: consumption of host tissue by the adult female parasitoid
• nondestructive: feeding where the host may survive or or die
• trichogramma: a genus of minute polyphagous wasps that are endoparasitoids of insect eggs