QAC Category B Landscape Maintenance Test
Questions and Answers
Perennial weeds are difficult to control because...
They can reproduce from organs like rhizomes, stolons, tubers
Insect order known to transmit plant disease
Thysanoptera (Thrips)
Insect order of pests to living plants
Heteroptera (true bugs)
Immature stages of insects
Instars
Insect order that suck juices from plant cells
Homoptera (aphids and whiteflies)
Part of plant nematodes often attack
Roots & underground parts
Plant disorder that cannot be transmitted between plants
Abiotic problems
Ant insect order
Hymenoptera
Insects with chewing mouthparts
, Caterpillars
What kind of insect are mites
arthropods
Insects that cause leaf stippling
Mites
Life stages of complete metamorphosis
egg, larva, pupa, adult
Complete elimination of pest species
eradication
Pests that cause damage on a regular basis
Key Pests
Use of preemergence pesticide is an example of
preventive use
Keeping pests below a certain level
pest suppression
example of cultural and mechanical control
Mowing weeds
use of physical barriers
Questions and Answers
Perennial weeds are difficult to control because...
They can reproduce from organs like rhizomes, stolons, tubers
Insect order known to transmit plant disease
Thysanoptera (Thrips)
Insect order of pests to living plants
Heteroptera (true bugs)
Immature stages of insects
Instars
Insect order that suck juices from plant cells
Homoptera (aphids and whiteflies)
Part of plant nematodes often attack
Roots & underground parts
Plant disorder that cannot be transmitted between plants
Abiotic problems
Ant insect order
Hymenoptera
Insects with chewing mouthparts
, Caterpillars
What kind of insect are mites
arthropods
Insects that cause leaf stippling
Mites
Life stages of complete metamorphosis
egg, larva, pupa, adult
Complete elimination of pest species
eradication
Pests that cause damage on a regular basis
Key Pests
Use of preemergence pesticide is an example of
preventive use
Keeping pests below a certain level
pest suppression
example of cultural and mechanical control
Mowing weeds
use of physical barriers
