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landscape module Questions Fully
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True or False: a licensed exterminator can only offer services, and perform exterminations as
authorized by their license - Answer True
The landscape license does not authorize the use of pesticide in a land extermination?
A. To maintain ornamental plants on residential and recreational land.
B. To control pest in treed areas of less then one hectare
C. To maintain weeds in a driveway located directly beside turf
D. Along rail lines to control brush - Answer D. Along rail lines to control brush
True or False: the holder of my landscape license may control spiders on the outside of a
building in connection with the landscape management? - Answer True
What are the common stages of weed development? - Answer Seed
Vegetative
Reproductive
What are the three developments stages in incomplete or simple metamorphosis ? - Answer
Egg to nymph to adult
What are the development 3 stages in complete metamorphosis? - Answer Egg to larva to
pupa to adult
What are the development 3 stages to know no metamorphosis - Answer Egg too young to
adult
What type of weed typically lives more than two years
A. Biennial weeds
B. Perennial weeds
C. Annual weeds - Answer B. perennial weeds
,Winter annuals typically germinate at what time of the year ? - Answer Late summer in or
early fall
List five undesirable characteristics of a weed ? - Answer • be aesthetically pleasing
• Unable to use equipment safely
• Compete with cultivated plants for water or nutrients
• pose a threat to people, example hazards, and snow drift
• reduces the visibility, long transportation corridors
Which of the following term is not used to describe a broadleaf plant?
A. Course root system
B. Tillers
C. True leaves
D. Cotyledons - Answer B. Tillers
Prostrate knotweeds can grow in _________ soils. As a result knotweed is often found in
pathways and driveways ? - Answer Compact soil
What characteristics does the perennial sow thistles and thyme leaf spurge have in common ? -
Answer Both perennial stems produce and milky juice when broken ?
True or False: earwigs have complete metamorphosis - Answer False
True or false true bugs if it's leaf hoppers and scale, insects have sucking mouth parts - Answer
True
True or false flies and moths have two pairs of membranes wings - Answer False
True or False spiders are insects ? - Answer False
What is distinguishing characteristic of shepherd"s purse? - Answer It has a triangular
shaped seed pods
What insect can be identified by the presence of scales on their wings - Answer Butterfly and
Moths (Lepidoptera)
, Beetles and ants have complete metamorphosis what immature stages are there in the
complete metamorphosis? - Answer Egg
Larva
Pupa
Arachnida be distinguished from other insects because ? - Answer They only have two main
body regions head and abdomen
During what stage are insects most vulnerable to control by insecticides ? - Answer The
young, nymph or larva stages
The damage from the Japanese beetle is usually seen in what month ? - Answer August or
September
Describe the damage caused by Hairy chinch bug ? - Answer Will kill lawns leaving sunken
dead patches of turf with isolated islands of green grass remaining. Brown patches begin to
appear in August will the advent of warm dry weather
True or False the control of leafminers may require the use of systemic insecticides - Answer
False
How many years of total defoliation of unstressed coniferous trees will cause the death of the
tree? - Answer One year
What insect larvae build a nest in the host tree for protection?
A. Spruce budworm
B. Eastern tent caterpillar
C. Gypsy moth
D. Forest tent caterpillar - Answer B. Eastern tent caterpillar
What generation of the Birch leaf miners is the most destructive? - Answer The first brood
because it attacks the tender spring foliage which is the most favourable for larval development
What is integrated pest management?
A. Pest management practices
B. Long term performance to control pest reaching damaging levels
C. Decision making process to manage pests from reaching damaging levels and for determining
what actions to take when pest problems occur. - Answer C.Decision making process to