CA BRANCH 3 PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

CA BRANCH 3 PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS 2025-2026
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 a
round 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 hardw
oods, plaster, comp. roofing and linoleum to emerge. May be brought in with new lumber and fire
wood.



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 mar
k. 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 eme
rge 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



A new house borer may emerge from a new home a few moths to a year after it is built? True or
False CORRECT ANSWER True



If you see a beetle infestation in a home, it always means that the treatment is needed? True or F
alse CORRECT ANSWER False