ALABAMA OTPS EXAM PRACTICE Question
and Answer 2026 | Updated Practice
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• When is the pesticide handler in greatest danger of exposure? -
✓✓During mixing and loading
• Name the signal words from least toxic to most toxic. -✓✓Caution,
warning, danger, danger poison
• What is the misuse statement? -✓✓Prohibits- increasing the rate over
maximum application rate as per the label. Prohibits use of pesticide on
a site not listed on the label.
• What are the penalties for violating FIFRA? -✓✓Federal crime
penalties: commercial applications convicting of violating FIFRA,
subject of up to $25K and up to 1 year in prison. Civil- commercial
applications up to 5K for each offense.
• What are 4 reasons to keep pesticide application records? -✓✓1. Law.
2. Helps determine how effective application is on pest. 3. Document for
purchase proof and use. 4. Provides assistance in diagnosing complaints
and problems. *Note Keep records for 3 years
• How much is the ADAI penalty for misuse of a restricted-use
pesticide? -✓✓Restricted 10K. Non-restricted 5K. Without license 5K
,• How much is the ADAI penalty for misuse of a non-restricted-use
pesticide? -✓✓5K
• What are 3 different life cycles of the weed and how long does it take
to complete each? -✓✓Annual- 1 season. Biannually- 2 seasons.
Perennial- 3 or more
• Which weed reproduces with underground flowers? Perennial
broadleaf weed; stems somewhat fleshy and green-white in color;
elliptically shaped leaves are oppositely arranged on the stem; 4 pedaled
white flowers are borne in the leaf fork or axils; flowers develop into
round 'button like' seed capsules -✓✓Virginia button weed
• Identify the 5 classifications of insect mouthparts. -✓✓Chewing.
Piercing. Rasping. Siphoning. Sponging
• Examples of chewing insects -✓✓Bag worms, cutworms,
grasshoppers, beetles, leaf miners, and borers.
• Examples of piercing-sucking insects -✓✓Scales and mealybugs,
aphids, whiteflies, and lace bugs.
• Which insects insert their needle-like mouthparts into the plant and
withdraw plant juices. Most feed on the underside of the leaves or stems
of plants. In the insects are present on leaving, the topsides of the leaves
, will have stipples, yellowish areas. Sometime the leaves may curl as a
result of this type of feeding, especially in the plant growth. -
✓✓Piercing-sucking insects.
• Some of these pests, soft scales, aphids, mealybugs, and whiteflies,
excrete large amounts of honeydew, which provides a medium for the
growth of a black fungus called sooty mold. -✓✓Piercing-sucking
insects
• Which insects are the most damaging pests of ornamental plants? -
✓✓Scales
• What are the symptoms of a plant infested with Scales? -
✓✓Discolored and wilted, or generally appear unhealthy
• Heavy infestations of scale insects can be reduced by? -✓✓Pruning
out the most damaged plant parts.
• What if the easiest stage of scales to control with pesticide? -
✓✓Crawler stage
• Soft-bodied, pear-shaped insects, which often possess a pair of horn-
like structures known as cornices at eh posterior end of the abdomen. -
✓✓Aphids
and Answer 2026 | Updated Practice
Questions and Solutions | A+ Verified
• When is the pesticide handler in greatest danger of exposure? -
✓✓During mixing and loading
• Name the signal words from least toxic to most toxic. -✓✓Caution,
warning, danger, danger poison
• What is the misuse statement? -✓✓Prohibits- increasing the rate over
maximum application rate as per the label. Prohibits use of pesticide on
a site not listed on the label.
• What are the penalties for violating FIFRA? -✓✓Federal crime
penalties: commercial applications convicting of violating FIFRA,
subject of up to $25K and up to 1 year in prison. Civil- commercial
applications up to 5K for each offense.
• What are 4 reasons to keep pesticide application records? -✓✓1. Law.
2. Helps determine how effective application is on pest. 3. Document for
purchase proof and use. 4. Provides assistance in diagnosing complaints
and problems. *Note Keep records for 3 years
• How much is the ADAI penalty for misuse of a restricted-use
pesticide? -✓✓Restricted 10K. Non-restricted 5K. Without license 5K
,• How much is the ADAI penalty for misuse of a non-restricted-use
pesticide? -✓✓5K
• What are 3 different life cycles of the weed and how long does it take
to complete each? -✓✓Annual- 1 season. Biannually- 2 seasons.
Perennial- 3 or more
• Which weed reproduces with underground flowers? Perennial
broadleaf weed; stems somewhat fleshy and green-white in color;
elliptically shaped leaves are oppositely arranged on the stem; 4 pedaled
white flowers are borne in the leaf fork or axils; flowers develop into
round 'button like' seed capsules -✓✓Virginia button weed
• Identify the 5 classifications of insect mouthparts. -✓✓Chewing.
Piercing. Rasping. Siphoning. Sponging
• Examples of chewing insects -✓✓Bag worms, cutworms,
grasshoppers, beetles, leaf miners, and borers.
• Examples of piercing-sucking insects -✓✓Scales and mealybugs,
aphids, whiteflies, and lace bugs.
• Which insects insert their needle-like mouthparts into the plant and
withdraw plant juices. Most feed on the underside of the leaves or stems
of plants. In the insects are present on leaving, the topsides of the leaves
, will have stipples, yellowish areas. Sometime the leaves may curl as a
result of this type of feeding, especially in the plant growth. -
✓✓Piercing-sucking insects.
• Some of these pests, soft scales, aphids, mealybugs, and whiteflies,
excrete large amounts of honeydew, which provides a medium for the
growth of a black fungus called sooty mold. -✓✓Piercing-sucking
insects
• Which insects are the most damaging pests of ornamental plants? -
✓✓Scales
• What are the symptoms of a plant infested with Scales? -
✓✓Discolored and wilted, or generally appear unhealthy
• Heavy infestations of scale insects can be reduced by? -✓✓Pruning
out the most damaged plant parts.
• What if the easiest stage of scales to control with pesticide? -
✓✓Crawler stage
• Soft-bodied, pear-shaped insects, which often possess a pair of horn-
like structures known as cornices at eh posterior end of the abdomen. -
✓✓Aphids
