CA BRANCH 2 FIELD 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SCORED A+
✔✔Pavement Ants - ✔✔This ant is blackish-brown, eats sweets, protein and grease.
Nest in lawns or under stones, boards. Builds mounds along sidewalks, foundations and
near water. Can be annoying around slab homes because they can enter though cracks
in the slab and other openings in search for food.
✔✔Pharaoh Ants - ✔✔This ant is light yellowish to reddish brown, have multiple queens
per colony. Nest in walls or cabinet voids, behind baseboards, in insulation or outside in
debris. Sting and bite. Eats fats, proteins and sweets. Very difficult to control and have
ten and thousands or hundreds of thousands in there colony, improper treatment may
cause them to bud (split) and make sub colonies making it harder to eradicate them.
✔✔Red Imported Fire Ants - ✔✔These ants have a red head and thorax, with a black
abdomen. Eats sweets and proteins. Nest in mounds with multiple openings in soil or
lawns and sometimes in buildings behind walls. Stings may cause severe reactions in
people and may kill young wildlife.
✔✔Thief Ants - ✔✔One of the smallest ants. Yellow to dirty brown in color. Can sting
you, eat greasy and fatty foods, sometimes sweets. (Steal) food and larvae from other
ant nests. Nest outdoors in soil, under rocks and decaying wood, and also nest behind
wall-boards. These ants are persistent and may be quite difficult to control.
✔✔Honey Bees - ✔✔These bees have a complete life cycle; egg, larvae, pupa and
adult. These are social insects, they collect pollen produce wax and honey and tend to a
colony inside a hive. This insect will die shorty after using its stinger to sting someone or
a animal.
✔✔Africanized Honey Bees - ✔✔This bee (Known as killers) are extremely aggressive,
there attacks can lost very long and can be very fatal. Loud noises, people moving, or
even breathing can trigger these insects. They are also attracted to hair, dark colors,
freshly mowed grass, citrus-scented perfume.
✔✔Bumble Bees - ✔✔These bees are social insects. They have a complete life cycle;
egg, larvae, pupa and adult. Generally nest underground. They do not make holes in
tunnels in wood. May be found nesting in a abandoned rodent burrows, under piles of
grass clippings, under stones, logs, etc. Some are more likely to sting then others.
Controlled by locating and treating nests with aerosols, dusts, or liquids.
✔✔Carpenter Bees - ✔✔These bees have a complete life cycle. Females are large,
black with no yellow on abdomen and sting. Males are yellow-brown and do not sting.
Females burrow 1/2 inch holes into wood to build their nests. This causes structural
damage, but rarely attack painted wood or that's varnished; they prefer bare, exposed
, wood. Control these pests by using dusts and plugging there holes. May need to apply
a repellent insecticide over the remaining areas to discourage further attacks.
✔✔Sweat Bees - ✔✔This bee got their name because they are attracted to the salts in
human sweat. Black brown, red, metallic green and sometimes with yellow markings.
Their stings are almost painless. However, some people may have various reactions.
They also live under ground.
✔✔Yellow Jackets - ✔✔This wasp is a Social insects, live in large colonies that number
in the thousands. Adults feed mostly on fruit juices and other sweet materials. Larvae
are fed animal materials such as insects or meat. Can be a major pest problem at
picnics and outdoor eateries.
✔✔Umbrella Wasps - ✔✔These wasps are also known as (paper wasps) Their nest is
umbrella shaped, made of paper and often found built under the eaves if homes. These
wasps are not very aggressive but are considered a threat because of their close
proximity to living areas. Female can sting repeatedly and males are incapable of
stinging.
✔✔Mud Daubers - ✔✔These wasps got there name because they build nests made of
mud. Nests are usually attached to walls of buildings. These are solitary wasps. The
females collect spiders which she will sting, paralyze and then places them in a mud
chambers. Then deposits an egg on one of the spiders, closes off the chamber and
leaves. The young larval wasp hatches then feeds on the spider.
✔✔Rice Weevil - ✔✔This stored food pest is reddish brown in color, and as four light
brown or yellow spots on its wing covers. Probably the most destructive pest of stored
grain. Can fly, and feed on a wide variety of whole grains, has been found in milled
products (caked flour, macaroni)
✔✔Granary Weevil - ✔✔This stored food pest is a chestnut brown or black in color.
Closely resembles a rice weevil but has no markings on its back or functional wings.
Does not fly, and found feeding on whole grain in storage, such as oats, wheat, rye,
barley. Sometimes in beans and nuts.
✔✔Lesser Grain Beetle - ✔✔This stored food pest is dark brown and cylinder shaped its
head is hidden by its thorax when view from above. These are more destructive then a
Granary Weevil. They lay eggs in grain or in grain dust. Attacks whole grain, but will
also bore into items like books or wood.
✔✔Indian Meal Moth - ✔✔This stored food pest has grayish wings with distinctive
coppery tips. Mainly night fliers, will fly irregular zigzag pattern if disturbed. Feeds on all
types of grains, seeds, powdered milk, dog food, crackers, candy, nuts, chocolate, dried
fruits and virtually all dried foodstuffs.
ANSWERS SCORED A+
✔✔Pavement Ants - ✔✔This ant is blackish-brown, eats sweets, protein and grease.
Nest in lawns or under stones, boards. Builds mounds along sidewalks, foundations and
near water. Can be annoying around slab homes because they can enter though cracks
in the slab and other openings in search for food.
✔✔Pharaoh Ants - ✔✔This ant is light yellowish to reddish brown, have multiple queens
per colony. Nest in walls or cabinet voids, behind baseboards, in insulation or outside in
debris. Sting and bite. Eats fats, proteins and sweets. Very difficult to control and have
ten and thousands or hundreds of thousands in there colony, improper treatment may
cause them to bud (split) and make sub colonies making it harder to eradicate them.
✔✔Red Imported Fire Ants - ✔✔These ants have a red head and thorax, with a black
abdomen. Eats sweets and proteins. Nest in mounds with multiple openings in soil or
lawns and sometimes in buildings behind walls. Stings may cause severe reactions in
people and may kill young wildlife.
✔✔Thief Ants - ✔✔One of the smallest ants. Yellow to dirty brown in color. Can sting
you, eat greasy and fatty foods, sometimes sweets. (Steal) food and larvae from other
ant nests. Nest outdoors in soil, under rocks and decaying wood, and also nest behind
wall-boards. These ants are persistent and may be quite difficult to control.
✔✔Honey Bees - ✔✔These bees have a complete life cycle; egg, larvae, pupa and
adult. These are social insects, they collect pollen produce wax and honey and tend to a
colony inside a hive. This insect will die shorty after using its stinger to sting someone or
a animal.
✔✔Africanized Honey Bees - ✔✔This bee (Known as killers) are extremely aggressive,
there attacks can lost very long and can be very fatal. Loud noises, people moving, or
even breathing can trigger these insects. They are also attracted to hair, dark colors,
freshly mowed grass, citrus-scented perfume.
✔✔Bumble Bees - ✔✔These bees are social insects. They have a complete life cycle;
egg, larvae, pupa and adult. Generally nest underground. They do not make holes in
tunnels in wood. May be found nesting in a abandoned rodent burrows, under piles of
grass clippings, under stones, logs, etc. Some are more likely to sting then others.
Controlled by locating and treating nests with aerosols, dusts, or liquids.
✔✔Carpenter Bees - ✔✔These bees have a complete life cycle. Females are large,
black with no yellow on abdomen and sting. Males are yellow-brown and do not sting.
Females burrow 1/2 inch holes into wood to build their nests. This causes structural
damage, but rarely attack painted wood or that's varnished; they prefer bare, exposed
, wood. Control these pests by using dusts and plugging there holes. May need to apply
a repellent insecticide over the remaining areas to discourage further attacks.
✔✔Sweat Bees - ✔✔This bee got their name because they are attracted to the salts in
human sweat. Black brown, red, metallic green and sometimes with yellow markings.
Their stings are almost painless. However, some people may have various reactions.
They also live under ground.
✔✔Yellow Jackets - ✔✔This wasp is a Social insects, live in large colonies that number
in the thousands. Adults feed mostly on fruit juices and other sweet materials. Larvae
are fed animal materials such as insects or meat. Can be a major pest problem at
picnics and outdoor eateries.
✔✔Umbrella Wasps - ✔✔These wasps are also known as (paper wasps) Their nest is
umbrella shaped, made of paper and often found built under the eaves if homes. These
wasps are not very aggressive but are considered a threat because of their close
proximity to living areas. Female can sting repeatedly and males are incapable of
stinging.
✔✔Mud Daubers - ✔✔These wasps got there name because they build nests made of
mud. Nests are usually attached to walls of buildings. These are solitary wasps. The
females collect spiders which she will sting, paralyze and then places them in a mud
chambers. Then deposits an egg on one of the spiders, closes off the chamber and
leaves. The young larval wasp hatches then feeds on the spider.
✔✔Rice Weevil - ✔✔This stored food pest is reddish brown in color, and as four light
brown or yellow spots on its wing covers. Probably the most destructive pest of stored
grain. Can fly, and feed on a wide variety of whole grains, has been found in milled
products (caked flour, macaroni)
✔✔Granary Weevil - ✔✔This stored food pest is a chestnut brown or black in color.
Closely resembles a rice weevil but has no markings on its back or functional wings.
Does not fly, and found feeding on whole grain in storage, such as oats, wheat, rye,
barley. Sometimes in beans and nuts.
✔✔Lesser Grain Beetle - ✔✔This stored food pest is dark brown and cylinder shaped its
head is hidden by its thorax when view from above. These are more destructive then a
Granary Weevil. They lay eggs in grain or in grain dust. Attacks whole grain, but will
also bore into items like books or wood.
✔✔Indian Meal Moth - ✔✔This stored food pest has grayish wings with distinctive
coppery tips. Mainly night fliers, will fly irregular zigzag pattern if disturbed. Feeds on all
types of grains, seeds, powdered milk, dog food, crackers, candy, nuts, chocolate, dried
fruits and virtually all dried foodstuffs.
