GA Pest Exam Questions with 100%
Correct Answers
anticoagulant Correct Answer: prevents blood clotting
anticoagulant - first generation Correct Answer: generally require bait
consumption over several feedings (days) in order to get lethal dose
anticoagulant - second generation Correct Answer: lethal after single ingestion
FIFRA Correct Answer: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
FQPA Correct Answer: Food Quality Protection Act of 1996
Carries the same enforcement weight as the actual label provided on the
pesticide container Correct Answer: labeling
EPA Correct Answer: Environmental Protection Agency
GDA Correct Answer: Georgia Department of Agriculture
who registers all pesticides Correct Answer: EPA and GDA
2 classifications of pesticides Correct Answer: general use or restricted use
SPCA Correct Answer: Structural Pest Control Act (primary law in georgia)
how often and hours needed for reregistration Correct Answer: every 2 years; 8
for household pest control; 8 for wood destroying organisms; 3 for fumigation
when do registrations expire Correct Answer: june 30th of each odd numbered
year
, when to treat school room Correct Answer: when students are not expected to
be present for a minimum of 3 hours or longer if directed by pesticide product
label
open area application at school Correct Answer: if area within 10 feet of
application is secured and no students are present within secured area
outside on school grounds applications Correct Answer: can be applied if
students not expected within 20 feet
which law deals with the regulation and licensing of certain areas related to
structural pest control Correct Answer: Georgia Pesticide use and application
act
3 things a pest needs to survive Correct Answer: food, water, harborage (place
to hide)
Arthropods Correct Answer: A group of organisms that have jointed
appendages, an exoskeleton, bilateral symmetry, and reproduce sexually;
insects, arachnids, millipedes and cenitpedes, and crustaceans
insects Correct Answer: 3 sections - head, thorax, abdomen; head with one pair
of antennae; thorax with three pairs of legs
instars Correct Answer: stages in metamorphosis
gradual metamorphosis Correct Answer: insects that develop without much
visible change between their immature instars to adult- except to increase in
size. ex- springtails and silverfish
incomplete metamorphosis Correct Answer: egg, nymph, adult. two different
types- Paurometabolous, Hemimetaboulus. Ex- roaches, lice, aphids, praying
Correct Answers
anticoagulant Correct Answer: prevents blood clotting
anticoagulant - first generation Correct Answer: generally require bait
consumption over several feedings (days) in order to get lethal dose
anticoagulant - second generation Correct Answer: lethal after single ingestion
FIFRA Correct Answer: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
FQPA Correct Answer: Food Quality Protection Act of 1996
Carries the same enforcement weight as the actual label provided on the
pesticide container Correct Answer: labeling
EPA Correct Answer: Environmental Protection Agency
GDA Correct Answer: Georgia Department of Agriculture
who registers all pesticides Correct Answer: EPA and GDA
2 classifications of pesticides Correct Answer: general use or restricted use
SPCA Correct Answer: Structural Pest Control Act (primary law in georgia)
how often and hours needed for reregistration Correct Answer: every 2 years; 8
for household pest control; 8 for wood destroying organisms; 3 for fumigation
when do registrations expire Correct Answer: june 30th of each odd numbered
year
, when to treat school room Correct Answer: when students are not expected to
be present for a minimum of 3 hours or longer if directed by pesticide product
label
open area application at school Correct Answer: if area within 10 feet of
application is secured and no students are present within secured area
outside on school grounds applications Correct Answer: can be applied if
students not expected within 20 feet
which law deals with the regulation and licensing of certain areas related to
structural pest control Correct Answer: Georgia Pesticide use and application
act
3 things a pest needs to survive Correct Answer: food, water, harborage (place
to hide)
Arthropods Correct Answer: A group of organisms that have jointed
appendages, an exoskeleton, bilateral symmetry, and reproduce sexually;
insects, arachnids, millipedes and cenitpedes, and crustaceans
insects Correct Answer: 3 sections - head, thorax, abdomen; head with one pair
of antennae; thorax with three pairs of legs
instars Correct Answer: stages in metamorphosis
gradual metamorphosis Correct Answer: insects that develop without much
visible change between their immature instars to adult- except to increase in
size. ex- springtails and silverfish
incomplete metamorphosis Correct Answer: egg, nymph, adult. two different
types- Paurometabolous, Hemimetaboulus. Ex- roaches, lice, aphids, praying
