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What is the series of events from egg to adult called?CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔Lifecycle
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What is metamorphosis?CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔The change that must take place in before the young
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insect matures into an adult is called Metamorphosis
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What Phylum do all insect-related animals belong to?CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔All insect-related animals
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such as mites, ticks, and spiders belong to a phulum called the Arthropoda
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What are Arachnids?CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔Spiders, Mites, scorpions, and ticks. Most arthropod pests
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are insects or arachnids.
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- four pairs of legs
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- two body segments (abdomen and cephalothorax)
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Name the four control strategies used to attempt the control of arthropods or rodents.CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔1. Resource Management/Environment Manipulation
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2. Prevention/Mechanical Barriers
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3. Biological Control
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4. Chemical Control
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,Resource Management/Environment ManipulationCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔Management of food, water,
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and shelter availability, and habitat modification to minimize or eliminate pest is usually one of the most
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effective methods for controlling pests.
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Prevention/Mechanical BarriersCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔Barriers such as screens, netting, and protective J J J J J J J J




clothing all are mechanical means to protect people from biting and nuisance insects.
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Biological ControlCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔The use of predators, parasites, and pathogens (insect diseases)
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can be effective in controlling some pest species, if the beneficial organisms can establish themselves or if a
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population can be maintained.
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Integrated Pest Management (IPM)CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔This concept uses a combination of biological,
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environmental and chemical control methods
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IPM- How?CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔Controlling pests by stressing non-chemical methods is the goal of pest
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management programs
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IPM- Why?CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔An IPM program seeks to maintain to maintain pest populations below
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the level at which they cause problems.
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IPMCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔It is an alternative and improved approach to traditional pest management. I
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uses information on the life cycles of pests and their interactions with the environment, in combination
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with available pest control methods, to manage pests by the most economical means with the least
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possible damage to people, property, and the environment.
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IPM- ProgramCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔Under an IPM program, spraying is used ONLY when ABSOLUTELY
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NECESSARY
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What is the difference between winged ants and termite swarmers?CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔Thee key
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features can quickly identify winged ants:
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,1. A pinched waist
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2. Elbowed antennae
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3. Wings of different lengths
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Which ant species has a heart-shaped abdomen?CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔Acrobat Ant
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Where do odorous house ants get their name?CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔The odor they give off when they
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are crushed, smells like rotten coconut
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What type of control is best for red imported fire ants?CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔Broadcast baiting followed
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by mound drenching
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What is "budding"?CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔When pharaoh ants separate into multiple colonies due to
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liquid insecticide treatment
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OrderCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔Group of similar families J J J J




Complete MetamorphosisCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔Insect development consisting of four stages: egg,
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larva, pupa, and adult
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CastesCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔- ants in a colony are grouped into castes based off of the tasks they J J J J J J J J J J J J J J J




perform.
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- Castes consist of workers, queens and alates.
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Ant workersCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔- Sterile females, and they make up the largest cast in the ant colony
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- The workers protect the nest against invaders, gather food, serve the queen, and care for the young ants
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, Ants (food)CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔- Collected by foraging workers is passed mouth to mouth among
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themselves and to other workers, larvae, and the queen.
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- This process is the only means by which the queen and larvae of the ant colony can obtain food
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- This transfer of food is an important element in the design and effectiveness of ant baits
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AlatesCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔Winged adult fertile males and females that leave existing colonies to J J J J J J J J J J J




establish new ones
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Male antsCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔- Found in colonies only during swarmer formation
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- Sole purpose: mating, and most die soon afterwards.
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Control of AntsCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔- Usually multi-step process including
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- Proper Identification
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- Location of all nests
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- Baiting
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- Perimeter barrier treatment
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- Non-chemical methods
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Five Types of Ants in South Carolina that cause most problemsCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔1. Red Imported
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Fire Ants
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2. Argentine Ants
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3. Odorous House Ants
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4. Pharaoh Ants
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5. Acrobat Ants
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Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta)CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔- Redish-Brown
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