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SERIES TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PESTICIDE APPLICATOR'S STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS | GRADED AND THE LATEST SERIES

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Question: Components of IPM Ans: 1. Pest identification 2. Monitoring 3. Use of natural enemies (biological control) 4. Pest-resistant plants 5. Cultural and structural changes 6. Judicious use of least toxic pesticides Question: Intent of IPM Ans: To use tactics that include pesticide alternatives that reduce the total amount of pesticide chemicals used thereby lessening the opportunity for pests to develop resistance. Question: How is a pesticide defined by law? SERIES Ans: Any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest, and any substance intended for use as a plant growth regulator, defoliant or desiccant. Question: Which state and federal agencies register pesticides? Ans: Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Question: What is the federal law that regulates the sale and use of pesticides? Ans: The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Question: What is a state-limited-use pesticide? Ans: A pesticide or pesticide use on which additional restrictions are placed by the Texas Department of Agriculture. Question: As defined by law, what is a private pesticide applicator? Ans: A person who uses or supervises the use of a restricted-use or state-limited use pesticide or a regulated herbicide for the purpose producing an agricultural commodity. Question: When supervising pesticide use, must the private applicator be physically present? Is the applicator responsible for actions of the supervised workers? Ans: The applicator need not be physically present, unless required by the label or other conditions of use

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2025-2026 SERIES
TEXAS CERTIFIED APPLICATOR EXAM PREP
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS |
GRADED AND THE LATEST SERIES
What is usually the cause when liquid flows into pump of a compressed sprayer

and shoots out the handle?**


Ans: Worn Check Valve


Question: Ants with one node?*


Ans: Carpenter, crazy, Rasberry Crazy, False Honey, Rover, Argentine, Odorous,
ghost, pyramid


Question: Ants with 2 nodes?*


Ans: Fire, Thief, Pavement, Acrobat, Pharaoh, Little black, Harvester, Big
Headed, Leaf cutter, Acacia, elongated twig


Question: Adult dull gray with 4 stripes on thorax?**


Ans: House fly


Question: Other than house flies what species of flys are common the residential

environments.*


Ans: Blue blow, Green blow, stable, Fruit flies, phorid, fungus gnats, moth flies


Question: Four wings 3/4 inch wing spread fore wings are grey near body

reddish at tips*

, 2025-2026 SERIES
Ans: Indian meal moths


Question: Species of wasp that build home above and below ground*


Ans: Yellow jacket


Question: To reduce contact with scorpions eliminate...?*


Ans: Bricks, stones, wood, trash and other potential harborage points.


Question: Insect 3/4 inch yellowish brown with powerful hind legs.*


Ans: The house/ field cricket


Question: Ants pose particular risk in hospitals because?**


Ans: Carry diseases and organisms on legs and body


Question: The four distinct stages of mosquitoes.*


Ans: Egg, larva, pupa and adult


Question: Species of insect primary vector of yellow fever and dengue?**


Ans: Aedes aegypti or Asian Tiger mosquitoes


Question: Lone star tick (amblyomma) primary vector of what diseases?


Ans: Mono cystic Ehrilichiosis and Southern Tick assisted rash illness

, 2025-2026 SERIES
Question: American Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis) is the primary vector of

what diseases?


Ans: Rocky Mountain fever and tuleremia anaplasmosis


Question: Black Legged Deer Tick is the primary vector of what disease


Ans: Spirochete (Lyme disease)


Question: Court ruling "____________ __________" usually involves cases

where children are attracted to application equipment and pesticide left

unattended by applicators.*


Ans: Attractive Nuisance


Question: Rats have a home range of ?*


Ans: 100ft - 150ft


Question: Mice have a home range of ?


Ans: 10ft-30ft


Question: The most successful solutions or methods for achieving a rat free

environment?*


Ans: Rat Proofing


Question: Describe droppings of Norway rat*

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