Landscape Ontario Pesticide Training
and Certification module Exam
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True or False: a licensed exterminator can only offer services, and perform
exterminations as authorized by their license - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 ? -
✔✔True
What are the common stages of weed development? - ✔✔Seed
Vegetative
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Reproductive
What are the three developments stages in incomplete or simple
metamorphosis ? - ✔✔Egg to nymph to adult
What are the development 3 stages in complete metamorphosis? - ✔✔Egg
to larva to pupa to adult
What are the development 3 stages to know no metamorphosis - ✔✔Egg
too young to adult
What type of weed typically lives more than two years
A. Biennial weeds
B. Perennial weeds
C. Annual weeds - ✔✔B. perennial weeds
Winter annuals typically germinate at what time of the year ? - ✔✔Late
summer in or early fall
List five undesirable characteristics of a weed ? - ✔✔• 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
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Which of the following term is not used to describe a broadleaf plant?
A. Course root system
B. Tillers
C. True leaves
D. Cotyledons - ✔✔B. Tillers
Prostrate knotweeds can grow in _________ soils. As a result knotweed is
often found in pathways and driveways ? - ✔✔Compact soil
What characteristics does the perennial sow thistles and thyme leaf spurge
have in common ? - ✔✔Both perennial stems produce and milky juice
when broken ?
True or False: earwigs have complete metamorphosis - ✔✔False
True or false true bugs if it's leaf hoppers and scale, insects have sucking
mouth parts - ✔✔True
True or false flies and moths have two pairs of membranes wings -
✔✔False
True or False spiders are insects ? - ✔✔False
What is distinguishing characteristic of shepherd"s purse? - ✔✔It has a
triangular shaped seed pods
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What insect can be identified by the presence of scales on their wings -
✔✔Butterfly and Moths (Lepidoptera)
Beetles and ants have complete metamorphosis what immature stages are
there in the complete metamorphosis? - ✔✔Egg
Larva
Pupa
Arachnida be distinguished from other insects because ? - ✔✔They only
have two main body regions head and abdomen
During what stage are insects most vulnerable to control by insecticides ? -
✔✔The young, nymph or larva stages
The damage from the Japanese beetle is usually seen in what month ? -
✔✔August or September
Describe the damage caused by Hairy chinch bug ? - ✔✔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 - ✔✔False