Principles of Horticulture -- Third week assignment -- Web site evaluation
Please look at each of the webpages below. All of these pages have something to do with the common greenhouse and landscape pest, whiteflies. Evaluate the pages using the following criteria
- Who is responsible for this page? What are the qualifications of the person/organization that put this information on the Web? (In other words, why should you trust this information?)
- Who is the information on this particular page for? Who is the intended audience?
- What are the author's agendas, biases or purposes? (In other words, why did the author bother putting this information on the Web?)
- How old is the information? How accurate is this information?
- Is the information relevant to a person who is training to be a Horticulture professional?
- http://www.bugspray.com/article/whiteflies.html
- http://pubs.caes.uga.edu/caespubs/pubcd/b1077-w.html
- http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7401.html
- http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=53-47-10-05
- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0946707162/sr=1-1/qid=1156259652/ref=sr_1_1/102-6902317-7985758?ie=UTF8&s=books
- http://www.backyardgarden.net/insects/insects.html
- http://www.teamguava.net/adventures/adv20040120.html
- http://www.dowagro.com/turf/prod/dursban.htm
- http://www.micoks.net/~lhmost/Repel%20Insects.html