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Threshold

Last Updated: November 29, 2007

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The point at which an action is taken; often applied to insects. (Most thresholds are action thresholds; an action is taken when a pre-determined number of a given insect is present in the soil or on a cotton plant. It can also be an economic threshold, which takes the commodity value and treatment cost into consideration when determining when to apply control measures.)

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