Turf & Landscape
What is a symptom of damage from an insect with piecing-sucking mouth-parts? - ✔✔ correct
answer Yellowed Leaves
What is the best reason to know the type of METAMORPHOSIS the target pest goes through? -
✔✔ correct answer To target the most vulnerable life stage.
When are eastern tent caterpillars MOST ACTIVE? - ✔✔ correct answer April through early
June.
How many seed leaves do broad-leaves have when they emerge from the soil? - ✔✔ correct
answer Two.
Annual weeds reproduce by__________. - ✔✔ correct answer Seeds.
What TYPE of herbicide is best suited for controlling perennial weeds? - ✔✔ correct answer
Systemic.
Why do you make post-emergence herbicide applications according to the weed's growth stage
listed on the label? - ✔✔ correct answer Selectivity is determined by growth stage.
What can minimize negative herbicide impacts? - ✔✔ correct answer Keep herbicides off
impervious surfaces like sidewalks.
To occur, A plant disease needs time, a pathogen, a plant host and favorable________. - ✔✔
correct answer Environmental conditions.
Why are most foliar contact fungicides applied more than once? - ✔✔ correct answer They only
protect existing growth.
, Turf & Landscape
Which pesticide is best suited for dispatching moles? - ✔✔ correct answer Poison bait.
What herbicide CHARACTERISTIC is desired when you need to control creeping charlie
WITHOUT damaging surrounding turf? - ✔✔ correct answer Narrow spectrum.
What is the easy-to-use for a pesticide active ingredient? - ✔✔ correct answer Common name.
What is necessary for herbicides to kill a plant? - ✔✔ correct answer Getting absorbed into the
plant.
What type of herbicide is absorbed and trans-located throughout the plant? - ✔✔ correct
answer Systemic.
WHY do manufacturers mix active and inert ingredients into a formulation? - ✔✔ correct
answer To make the pesticide easier to use.
Why must you evaluate different formulations of an active ingredient and the target pest? - ✔✔
correct answer Better residual time on the weed.
What is an advantage of using a GRANULAR herbicide? - ✔✔ correct answer Typically degrades
slower than a liquid formulation.
WHY might you add an adjutant to a pesticide tank mix? - ✔✔ correct answer To make the
product stick better.
Pesticide label directions are registered under which law? - ✔✔ correct answer Federal
insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
What is a symptom of damage from an insect with piecing-sucking mouth-parts? - ✔✔ correct
answer Yellowed Leaves
What is the best reason to know the type of METAMORPHOSIS the target pest goes through? -
✔✔ correct answer To target the most vulnerable life stage.
When are eastern tent caterpillars MOST ACTIVE? - ✔✔ correct answer April through early
June.
How many seed leaves do broad-leaves have when they emerge from the soil? - ✔✔ correct
answer Two.
Annual weeds reproduce by__________. - ✔✔ correct answer Seeds.
What TYPE of herbicide is best suited for controlling perennial weeds? - ✔✔ correct answer
Systemic.
Why do you make post-emergence herbicide applications according to the weed's growth stage
listed on the label? - ✔✔ correct answer Selectivity is determined by growth stage.
What can minimize negative herbicide impacts? - ✔✔ correct answer Keep herbicides off
impervious surfaces like sidewalks.
To occur, A plant disease needs time, a pathogen, a plant host and favorable________. - ✔✔
correct answer Environmental conditions.
Why are most foliar contact fungicides applied more than once? - ✔✔ correct answer They only
protect existing growth.
, Turf & Landscape
Which pesticide is best suited for dispatching moles? - ✔✔ correct answer Poison bait.
What herbicide CHARACTERISTIC is desired when you need to control creeping charlie
WITHOUT damaging surrounding turf? - ✔✔ correct answer Narrow spectrum.
What is the easy-to-use for a pesticide active ingredient? - ✔✔ correct answer Common name.
What is necessary for herbicides to kill a plant? - ✔✔ correct answer Getting absorbed into the
plant.
What type of herbicide is absorbed and trans-located throughout the plant? - ✔✔ correct
answer Systemic.
WHY do manufacturers mix active and inert ingredients into a formulation? - ✔✔ correct
answer To make the pesticide easier to use.
Why must you evaluate different formulations of an active ingredient and the target pest? - ✔✔
correct answer Better residual time on the weed.
What is an advantage of using a GRANULAR herbicide? - ✔✔ correct answer Typically degrades
slower than a liquid formulation.
WHY might you add an adjutant to a pesticide tank mix? - ✔✔ correct answer To make the
product stick better.
Pesticide label directions are registered under which law? - ✔✔ correct answer Federal
insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
