VA PESTICIDE EXAM with Questions & Answers
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Recordkeeping - ✔✔- must keep records of all applications for minimum of 2 years.
Reporting Incidents - ✔✔Report all accidents that pose a threat to any person, public
health, or the environment via telephone within 48 hours to VDACS-OPS. Written report
also required within 10 days. Additional reports may need to be made depending on
severity.
Pesticide Business License - ✔✔-$50 annual and a separate license is needed for each
location.
-$100,000 insurance property damage, $100,000 for personal injury and $300,00 per
occurrence
- license expires March 31st each year
Pesticide Business Responsibilities - ✔✔-If RUP are sold or distributed a certified
commercial applicator must be present at each location during business hours
-Commercial Applicator must be employee of business applying or recommending
pesticide use.
-Sales of all RUP and all applications must be recorded for 2 years
-Comply with state regulations
Pests - ✔✔-Competes with humans or desirable plants for food or water
-Injures humans, animals, structures, desirable plants, or possessions
-Spreads disease
-Annoys humans
,Pest Categories - ✔✔Key Pests
Occasional Pests
Secondary Pests
Key pests - ✔✔Nearly always present, cause major damage and require regular
control
Occasional Pests - ✔✔Migratory or cyclical and require intermittent control
Secondary Pests - ✔✔Control only under certain circumstances required
Identification - ✔✔Required to address a situation including:
-Physical Features
-Characteristics of damage
-Development and Biology
-Key, Secondary, or Occasional
-Control Goal
Basic Pest Groups - ✔✔-Weeds
-Parasites and Diseases
-Mollusks
-Arthropods
-Vertebrates
,Weeds - ✔✔-Hardy and Aggressive
-Large seed production efficiently spread
-Spreading by runners or underground stems
-Weed seeds can remain dormant for extended duration
-Can tolerate harsh conditions
-Can compete for soil moisture, light, and nutrients better than cultivated plants
Monocot - ✔✔-One leaf seed
-Parallel Leaf Veins
-Fibrous Routs
-Grasses and Lillies
-Crabgrass, Johnsongrass
Dicott (broadleaves - ✔✔-Two seed leafs
-Broad or narrow leaves with netlike veins
-Flower parts in multiples of 4 or 5
-Taproots penetrate deep into soil
-Some have wppdy stems
-Trees and Shrubs
-Poison ivy, dandelions
Annuals - ✔✔-Live 1 yr or less
-Germinate from seed, grow, flower, set seed and die within 12 months
-Summer annuals germinate in spring or summer and flower in later summer or early
fall
-Crabgrass, Russian thistle
, -Winter annuals germinate in late summer, fall, or winter and flower in the spring
Biennials - ✔✔- 2 yr life cycle
- Germinate and grow foliage during first yr with the first yr growth often as wide low
growing cluster of leaves called rosette
-Second yr biennials flower, set seed and die
Perennials - ✔✔- Live more than 2 yrs and some live for many yrs
- Store food in underground parts and sue this energy to produce new growth early in
each growing season
-Harder to control
-Flower and set seeds repeatedly 1 or more times a year
-Have special structures for spreading
-Poison Ivy, Locust Trees
Pathogens causing most plant and animal diseases - ✔✔Fungi, Bacteria, Mycoplasms,
Viruses
Parasites - ✔✔Tick, Lice, Fleas, Bedbugs, Mosquitoes, Nematodes, Mollusks. Plants
have leaf spots
Arthropods Insects - ✔✔Animals with segmented bodies and jointed APPENDAGES.
-external skeleton of light but strong material chitin
- Jointed legs for walking and other specialized appendages such as antennas, pinchers,
sucking tubes, etc.
Insects - ✔✔-Produce large offspring numbers
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Recordkeeping - ✔✔- must keep records of all applications for minimum of 2 years.
Reporting Incidents - ✔✔Report all accidents that pose a threat to any person, public
health, or the environment via telephone within 48 hours to VDACS-OPS. Written report
also required within 10 days. Additional reports may need to be made depending on
severity.
Pesticide Business License - ✔✔-$50 annual and a separate license is needed for each
location.
-$100,000 insurance property damage, $100,000 for personal injury and $300,00 per
occurrence
- license expires March 31st each year
Pesticide Business Responsibilities - ✔✔-If RUP are sold or distributed a certified
commercial applicator must be present at each location during business hours
-Commercial Applicator must be employee of business applying or recommending
pesticide use.
-Sales of all RUP and all applications must be recorded for 2 years
-Comply with state regulations
Pests - ✔✔-Competes with humans or desirable plants for food or water
-Injures humans, animals, structures, desirable plants, or possessions
-Spreads disease
-Annoys humans
,Pest Categories - ✔✔Key Pests
Occasional Pests
Secondary Pests
Key pests - ✔✔Nearly always present, cause major damage and require regular
control
Occasional Pests - ✔✔Migratory or cyclical and require intermittent control
Secondary Pests - ✔✔Control only under certain circumstances required
Identification - ✔✔Required to address a situation including:
-Physical Features
-Characteristics of damage
-Development and Biology
-Key, Secondary, or Occasional
-Control Goal
Basic Pest Groups - ✔✔-Weeds
-Parasites and Diseases
-Mollusks
-Arthropods
-Vertebrates
,Weeds - ✔✔-Hardy and Aggressive
-Large seed production efficiently spread
-Spreading by runners or underground stems
-Weed seeds can remain dormant for extended duration
-Can tolerate harsh conditions
-Can compete for soil moisture, light, and nutrients better than cultivated plants
Monocot - ✔✔-One leaf seed
-Parallel Leaf Veins
-Fibrous Routs
-Grasses and Lillies
-Crabgrass, Johnsongrass
Dicott (broadleaves - ✔✔-Two seed leafs
-Broad or narrow leaves with netlike veins
-Flower parts in multiples of 4 or 5
-Taproots penetrate deep into soil
-Some have wppdy stems
-Trees and Shrubs
-Poison ivy, dandelions
Annuals - ✔✔-Live 1 yr or less
-Germinate from seed, grow, flower, set seed and die within 12 months
-Summer annuals germinate in spring or summer and flower in later summer or early
fall
-Crabgrass, Russian thistle
, -Winter annuals germinate in late summer, fall, or winter and flower in the spring
Biennials - ✔✔- 2 yr life cycle
- Germinate and grow foliage during first yr with the first yr growth often as wide low
growing cluster of leaves called rosette
-Second yr biennials flower, set seed and die
Perennials - ✔✔- Live more than 2 yrs and some live for many yrs
- Store food in underground parts and sue this energy to produce new growth early in
each growing season
-Harder to control
-Flower and set seeds repeatedly 1 or more times a year
-Have special structures for spreading
-Poison Ivy, Locust Trees
Pathogens causing most plant and animal diseases - ✔✔Fungi, Bacteria, Mycoplasms,
Viruses
Parasites - ✔✔Tick, Lice, Fleas, Bedbugs, Mosquitoes, Nematodes, Mollusks. Plants
have leaf spots
Arthropods Insects - ✔✔Animals with segmented bodies and jointed APPENDAGES.
-external skeleton of light but strong material chitin
- Jointed legs for walking and other specialized appendages such as antennas, pinchers,
sucking tubes, etc.
Insects - ✔✔-Produce large offspring numbers
