CA Branch 3 Practice Test Questions with 100% Correct Answers

CA Branch 3 Practice Test Questions
with 100% Correct Answers
The Black Polycaon are one of the wood destroying largest beetles at 1/2 to 1
inch long? True or False Correct Answer: True


Beetles have a complete life cycle? True or False Correct Answer: True


A Lyctid beetle is a true powderpost beetle? True or False Correct Answer: True


Black Polycaons are likely to re-infest? True or False Correct Answer: False, they
do not re-infest


Lyctid beetles attack mostly hardwoods and they do re-infest? True or False
Correct Answer: True


Lead cable borers attack maple and other hardwoods. They will also bore
through lead sheathing around phone and power lines? True or False Correct
Answer: True


Name 3 Bostrichidae (False Powderpost Beetles)? Correct Answer: Lead Cable
Borer, Black Polycaon, Bamboo Borer


Bamboo borers are very damaging to bamboo furniture and will re-infest? True
or False Correct Answer: True


Deathwatch beetles are known for their mating signal. How do they do that?
Correct Answer: Strike their head against the surface they are standing on


Lead Cable Borers do not re-infest? True or False Correct Answer: False, they do
re-infest

,Deathwatch beetles attack oak and hardwoods and will re-infest? True or False
Correct Answer: True


Name two Anobiidae (false powderpost beetles? Correct Answer: Deathwatch,
Furniture Beetle


Furniture beetles will attack coniferous and hardwoods and prefer new wood
instead of old? True or False Correct Answer: False, prefers old woods to new
lumber


If a home has a problem with flat headed borers, you should fumigate the
home because they are likely to reinfest? True or False Correct Answer: False,
they do not re-infest


New house borers prefer old seasoned wood? True or False Correct Answer:
False, they attack green lumber, likes pines, firs and especially Douglas fir. Will
bore through hardwoods, plaster, comp. roofing and linoleum to emerge. May
be brought in with new lumber and firewood.


Old house borers prefer new/fresh wood? True or False Correct Answer: False,
attacks seasoned wood. Prefers pine, fir and spruce. Will attack rustic furniture.


Bark beetles don't really bore through bark to star their tunnels? True or False
Correct Answer: False, they bore through bark and work between bark and
sapwood and often leave a scoring mark. Eggs are laid in their tunnels.


If you see wood damaged by a new house borer, it will need to be treated
because they will re-infest? True or False Correct Answer: False, do not re-infest
and they cannot survive in seasoned wood.


Name a Buprestidae Beetle? Correct Answer: Flat Headed Borer

, What does frass from a lyctid beetle look like? Correct Answer: Talcum powder-
like, packed in channels but will fall freely from emergence holes.


Flat headed borer emergence holes are oval shaped and about 3/8 inch wide?
True or False Correct Answer: True


Bark beetles are a serious pest of our forest but may be brought in with
firewood? True or False Correct Answer: True


New house borers may bore through hardwoods, plaster, composition roofing
and linoleum to emerge but they do not require treatment because they will
not re-infest? True or False Correct Answer: True


Bark beetles do no re-infest? True or False Correct Answer: True


Black polycaon emergence holes that are about 1/4 inch in diameter? True or
False Correct Answer: True


You can tell the difference between a true powderpost and false powderpost
beetle's frass because only a true powderpost beetle has a fine "face-powder"
like consistency? True or False Correct Answer: True


Lyctid beetle emergence holes are about 1/32nd to 1/16th inch in diameter?
True or False Correct Answer: True


Will a bamboo borer re-infest? True or False Correct Answer: True


Furniture beetle emergence holes are about 1/16th to 1/8th inch in diameter
and they will re-infest? True or False Correct Answer: True


Old house borers do not live in the U.S. but may be imported? True or False
Correct Answer: True