Years experience within what time frame required to qualify for a license.
2
Corporate surety Bond requirement for Pest control.
$10,000
Insurance required per occurrence and aggregate.
$250,000 and $500,000
Time records are to be kept after the end of a contract.
2 years
Types of insect life cycles.
Gradual - Complete - Ametabolus (Without Metamorphosis)
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Beetles
Coleoptera - Complete - Chewing
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Butterflies & Moths
Lepidoptera - Complete - Chewing as caterpillars, and siphoning as adults.
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of flies.
Diptera - Complete - Chewing as immatures, and sucking or sponging as adults.
,Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Ants, Bees, and Wasps.
Hymenoptera - Complete - Chewing or chewing and sucking
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of true bugs, cicadas, leafhoppers, fulgorids,
aphids, whiteflies, and scales.
Hemiptera - Gradual - Sucking
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Crickets and grasshoppers.
Orthopetera - Gradual - Chewing
Stages of a gradual life cycle.
Egg, nymph, and adult.
Stages of a complete life cycle.
Egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
Stages of ametabolus life cycle.
Young look just like adults in every way, just smaller.
Characteristics of Chewing mouthparts.
Strong mandibles, smaller pair of maxillae.
,Characteristics of Piercing/Sucking mouthparts.
Elongate holo proboscis used to pierce plant, animal, or insect being fed upon to
suck up sap or blood.
Characteristics of mouthparts used for both Chewing and Sucking
Chewing mandibles as well as other mouthparts modified for sucking.
Characteristics of mouthparts used for Sponging
Hollow proboscis with an enlarged sponge-like structure.
Characteristics of mouthparts used for Siphoning
Long hollow proboscis usually rolled up when not in use.
A large order of insects having a single pair of wings, and sucking or piercing
mouthparts. Describe picture.
Diptera (Flys)
Leaf Miner - Describe picture, what they are, and how they feed.
Various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf
tissue.
Describe picture and name of result of damage from an insect to the leaf of a
plant. Insect is usually gone.
Leaf Gall
, Crane Fly (Identify, life cycle, and food)
Long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite.
Complete life cycle. Feeds on grass roots, but adults do not feed.
Hymenoptera
an order of insects including: bees
Cicada killer (Life cycle, food, and characteristic)
large black or rust-colored wasp that preys on cicadas, complete life cycle, largest
wasp
Imported fire ant (Identify, life cycle, food, characteristics)
Hymenoptera holometabolous chewing pest, Complete life cycle, feeds on insects
and seeds, has painful sting.
Orthoptera
Order of grasshoppers, and crickets
House crickets
nocturnal, live 2-3 months, lay 40 to 100 eggs
Field cricket (Identify, life cycle, characteristics)
Common American black cricket. Gradual life cycle, males use structures on their
wings to produce songs.
2
Corporate surety Bond requirement for Pest control.
$10,000
Insurance required per occurrence and aggregate.
$250,000 and $500,000
Time records are to be kept after the end of a contract.
2 years
Types of insect life cycles.
Gradual - Complete - Ametabolus (Without Metamorphosis)
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Beetles
Coleoptera - Complete - Chewing
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Butterflies & Moths
Lepidoptera - Complete - Chewing as caterpillars, and siphoning as adults.
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of flies.
Diptera - Complete - Chewing as immatures, and sucking or sponging as adults.
,Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Ants, Bees, and Wasps.
Hymenoptera - Complete - Chewing or chewing and sucking
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of true bugs, cicadas, leafhoppers, fulgorids,
aphids, whiteflies, and scales.
Hemiptera - Gradual - Sucking
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Crickets and grasshoppers.
Orthopetera - Gradual - Chewing
Stages of a gradual life cycle.
Egg, nymph, and adult.
Stages of a complete life cycle.
Egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
Stages of ametabolus life cycle.
Young look just like adults in every way, just smaller.
Characteristics of Chewing mouthparts.
Strong mandibles, smaller pair of maxillae.
,Characteristics of Piercing/Sucking mouthparts.
Elongate holo proboscis used to pierce plant, animal, or insect being fed upon to
suck up sap or blood.
Characteristics of mouthparts used for both Chewing and Sucking
Chewing mandibles as well as other mouthparts modified for sucking.
Characteristics of mouthparts used for Sponging
Hollow proboscis with an enlarged sponge-like structure.
Characteristics of mouthparts used for Siphoning
Long hollow proboscis usually rolled up when not in use.
A large order of insects having a single pair of wings, and sucking or piercing
mouthparts. Describe picture.
Diptera (Flys)
Leaf Miner - Describe picture, what they are, and how they feed.
Various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf
tissue.
Describe picture and name of result of damage from an insect to the leaf of a
plant. Insect is usually gone.
Leaf Gall
, Crane Fly (Identify, life cycle, and food)
Long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite.
Complete life cycle. Feeds on grass roots, but adults do not feed.
Hymenoptera
an order of insects including: bees
Cicada killer (Life cycle, food, and characteristic)
large black or rust-colored wasp that preys on cicadas, complete life cycle, largest
wasp
Imported fire ant (Identify, life cycle, food, characteristics)
Hymenoptera holometabolous chewing pest, Complete life cycle, feeds on insects
and seeds, has painful sting.
Orthoptera
Order of grasshoppers, and crickets
House crickets
nocturnal, live 2-3 months, lay 40 to 100 eggs
Field cricket (Identify, life cycle, characteristics)
Common American black cricket. Gradual life cycle, males use structures on their
wings to produce songs.
