Texas Pest control category Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers for Accuracy
Characterized by having essentially tubular segmented bodies,
paired and jointed appendages, bilateral symmetry, and a
chitinous exoskeleton
✓✓ Arthropod
Insects that develop without much change in form (ex silverfish)
✓✓ Ametabulous
Insects have immature with a different body structure than adults
(ex dragonflies)
✓✓ Hemimetabulous
Paurometabulous
✓✓ Insects have 3 distinct stages: egg, nymph, adult (ex crickets,
cockroaches)
Insects undergo complete metamorphosis (ex ants, beetles, flies
✓✓ Holometabulous
These roaches prefer an outdoor habitat but move indoors during
seasonal migration and adverse weather conditions
pg. 1
,✓✓ Smoky brown roaches
How many species of roaches have been identified worldwide?
A) 350
B) 3,500
C) 35,000
✓✓ B) 3,500
Asian and German roaches can be distinguished apart by what
characteristics?
✓✓ Habitat and flight
Ants are members of which family?
✓✓ Formicidae
The #1 pest in the US
✓✓ Ants
There are approximately______species of ants in the US
✓✓ 700
The larvae of these moths attack whole GRAINS and feed inside
and often pupate inside GRAINS (not flour)
pg. 2
, ✓✓ Angumois grain moth
Forewings are gray near the body & reddish near the tip; head &
thorax are reddish
✓✓ Indian meal moth
Attack grain BEFORE harvest & storage
✓✓ Granary & rice weevils
Elongated, flat, shiny reddish brown & about 1/8 inch long beetles
✓✓ Red flour beetles
Small cylindrical slender dark brown beetles around 1/8 inch long;
very strong mandibles that can cut through wood
✓✓ Lesser grain borer
An expert is needed to provide exact identification of these beetles
✓✓ Dermestid beetles
There are over 55,000 described species
✓✓ Mites
Major pests of golf courses and cause physical & aesthetic damage
when they burrow below the ground surface
pg. 3
Detailed Verified Answers for Accuracy
Characterized by having essentially tubular segmented bodies,
paired and jointed appendages, bilateral symmetry, and a
chitinous exoskeleton
✓✓ Arthropod
Insects that develop without much change in form (ex silverfish)
✓✓ Ametabulous
Insects have immature with a different body structure than adults
(ex dragonflies)
✓✓ Hemimetabulous
Paurometabulous
✓✓ Insects have 3 distinct stages: egg, nymph, adult (ex crickets,
cockroaches)
Insects undergo complete metamorphosis (ex ants, beetles, flies
✓✓ Holometabulous
These roaches prefer an outdoor habitat but move indoors during
seasonal migration and adverse weather conditions
pg. 1
,✓✓ Smoky brown roaches
How many species of roaches have been identified worldwide?
A) 350
B) 3,500
C) 35,000
✓✓ B) 3,500
Asian and German roaches can be distinguished apart by what
characteristics?
✓✓ Habitat and flight
Ants are members of which family?
✓✓ Formicidae
The #1 pest in the US
✓✓ Ants
There are approximately______species of ants in the US
✓✓ 700
The larvae of these moths attack whole GRAINS and feed inside
and often pupate inside GRAINS (not flour)
pg. 2
, ✓✓ Angumois grain moth
Forewings are gray near the body & reddish near the tip; head &
thorax are reddish
✓✓ Indian meal moth
Attack grain BEFORE harvest & storage
✓✓ Granary & rice weevils
Elongated, flat, shiny reddish brown & about 1/8 inch long beetles
✓✓ Red flour beetles
Small cylindrical slender dark brown beetles around 1/8 inch long;
very strong mandibles that can cut through wood
✓✓ Lesser grain borer
An expert is needed to provide exact identification of these beetles
✓✓ Dermestid beetles
There are over 55,000 described species
✓✓ Mites
Major pests of golf courses and cause physical & aesthetic damage
when they burrow below the ground surface
pg. 3
