BRANCH 2 EXAMINATION TEST 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Which ant is known to be very aggressive and have a painful bite?
Big head ant
Fire ant
Velvety tree ant
Crazy ant - ✔✔Velvety tree ant
✔✔Pigeons, starlings and sparrows come from where? - ✔✔Europe
✔✔What has no metamorphosis and enjoys glazed/coated paper and rolled oats? -
✔✔Silverfish
✔✔_________ (land shrimp) or "scuds" are crustaceans. - ✔✔Amphipods
✔✔________ moth dies shorty after laying eggs. - ✔✔Webbing clothes moth
✔✔______ can transmit rickettsial pox and murine typhus. - ✔✔House mice
✔✔What cricket is most common to be found in homes? - ✔✔Field cricket
✔✔Which if these roaches can fly?
German
American
Oriental
Asian - ✔✔American
Asian
✔✔What is the name of the egg case for cockroaches? - ✔✔Ootheca
✔✔How many eggs can a german roach ootheca carry? - ✔✔30-40
✔✔Which of these roaches carry the ootheca attached to their body?
Asian
Australian
Smokey brown
German - ✔✔German
✔✔What roach is the same size as a german roach but glues is ootheca down to
furniture or high on walls? - ✔✔Brown banded roach
✔✔_______ ants are imported and can be found in nursery pots. - ✔✔Argentine ants
, ✔✔There are 4 main types of carpet beetles, what are they? - ✔✔Black carpet beetle
Hide beetle
Warehouse beetle
Varied carpet beetle
✔✔Which rat is larger, Norway rat or roof rat? - ✔✔Norway rat
✔✔Which has a longer life span, male or female flea? - ✔✔female
✔✔True or false, black widow bites can cause leg cramps. - ✔✔True
✔✔True or false, bed bugs only feed at night so the hose is safe during the day. -
✔✔False
✔✔What temperature to silverfish breed best at? - ✔✔70-80
✔✔What are the two main types of fruit flies? - ✔✔Red eye and dark eye
✔✔Red eye fruit flies prefer decaying fruit or fermented foods. What do dark eye fruit
flies prefer? - ✔✔Garbage and unclean drains
✔✔What conditions to camel crickets thrive in, Moist and cool or hot and dry? -
✔✔Moist and cool
✔✔Mosquitoes and other blood sucking insects are attracted to what gas? - ✔✔CO2
carbon dioxide
✔✔What is a division of labor among social insects called? - ✔✔A caste system
✔✔________ feed night and day depending on the sleep cycle of the host. - ✔✔Bed
bugs
✔✔What social insects use a caste system? - ✔✔Ants, termites and some bees
✔✔What are reproductive ants and termites called? - ✔✔Swarmers
✔✔What is the difference between swarmer ants and swarmer termites? - ✔✔Swarmer
ants have two sets of unequal size wings, pinched bodies and elbowed antennae
Swarmer termites have two sets of equal size wings with a straight body and straight
antennae.
✔✔Carpenter ants create debris made of sawdust and insect parts called? - ✔✔Frass
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Which ant is known to be very aggressive and have a painful bite?
Big head ant
Fire ant
Velvety tree ant
Crazy ant - ✔✔Velvety tree ant
✔✔Pigeons, starlings and sparrows come from where? - ✔✔Europe
✔✔What has no metamorphosis and enjoys glazed/coated paper and rolled oats? -
✔✔Silverfish
✔✔_________ (land shrimp) or "scuds" are crustaceans. - ✔✔Amphipods
✔✔________ moth dies shorty after laying eggs. - ✔✔Webbing clothes moth
✔✔______ can transmit rickettsial pox and murine typhus. - ✔✔House mice
✔✔What cricket is most common to be found in homes? - ✔✔Field cricket
✔✔Which if these roaches can fly?
German
American
Oriental
Asian - ✔✔American
Asian
✔✔What is the name of the egg case for cockroaches? - ✔✔Ootheca
✔✔How many eggs can a german roach ootheca carry? - ✔✔30-40
✔✔Which of these roaches carry the ootheca attached to their body?
Asian
Australian
Smokey brown
German - ✔✔German
✔✔What roach is the same size as a german roach but glues is ootheca down to
furniture or high on walls? - ✔✔Brown banded roach
✔✔_______ ants are imported and can be found in nursery pots. - ✔✔Argentine ants
, ✔✔There are 4 main types of carpet beetles, what are they? - ✔✔Black carpet beetle
Hide beetle
Warehouse beetle
Varied carpet beetle
✔✔Which rat is larger, Norway rat or roof rat? - ✔✔Norway rat
✔✔Which has a longer life span, male or female flea? - ✔✔female
✔✔True or false, black widow bites can cause leg cramps. - ✔✔True
✔✔True or false, bed bugs only feed at night so the hose is safe during the day. -
✔✔False
✔✔What temperature to silverfish breed best at? - ✔✔70-80
✔✔What are the two main types of fruit flies? - ✔✔Red eye and dark eye
✔✔Red eye fruit flies prefer decaying fruit or fermented foods. What do dark eye fruit
flies prefer? - ✔✔Garbage and unclean drains
✔✔What conditions to camel crickets thrive in, Moist and cool or hot and dry? -
✔✔Moist and cool
✔✔Mosquitoes and other blood sucking insects are attracted to what gas? - ✔✔CO2
carbon dioxide
✔✔What is a division of labor among social insects called? - ✔✔A caste system
✔✔________ feed night and day depending on the sleep cycle of the host. - ✔✔Bed
bugs
✔✔What social insects use a caste system? - ✔✔Ants, termites and some bees
✔✔What are reproductive ants and termites called? - ✔✔Swarmers
✔✔What is the difference between swarmer ants and swarmer termites? - ✔✔Swarmer
ants have two sets of unequal size wings, pinched bodies and elbowed antennae
Swarmer termites have two sets of equal size wings with a straight body and straight
antennae.
✔✔Carpenter ants create debris made of sawdust and insect parts called? - ✔✔Frass
