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GEORGIA PEST CONTROL REGISTRATION
EXAM 2025 | COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS &
VERIFIED ANSWERS
Spiders - correct-answer-Arthropods, not insects. 8 legs. Body divided into 2
regions, cephalothorax (head and thorax combined) and abdomen.
Eggs laid in silk sac containing dozens of eggs.
Immature spiderlings look like adult and will molt 4-14 times over 1-5 years to
reach adulthood, adult lives 1-20 years.
All spiders eat other arthropods and insects. Beneficial.
Bed Bugs - correct-answer-3/16 x 1/8 inch reddish brown and flat. Nocturnal.
Feed on blood, swollen after feeding.
Undergo Paurametabolous (incomplete metamorphosis).
Egg to Adult 4-5 weeks in warm and humid
Egg to Adult 4 months in cold and dry
Adults live for several months - a couple years
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5 instars, blood meal required for each instar
Transported by luggage, clothing, or furniture. Infestations may produce foul odor
Termites - correct-answer-Social insects that feed on cellulose found in wood,
wood by products, and plants/fruit. Share food, but not as rapidly as ants.
Undergo Paurometaboly
1-2 instar - larva
3+ instar - worker
Adults - alates
Immature - nymph
Worker- 80% of colony. Searches for food, tunneling, take care of larva.
Soldier- protects against attacks from ants, etc. Have large mandibles (head and
jaw)
Only adults in the colony are the King and Queen, during swarm all adults (alates)
leave the nest and start new colonies. Neotenics are replacement queens.
Differences between Ants and Termites? - correct-answer-Antennae- Termite are
straight. Ant are elbowed.
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Wings- Termite has 2 pair of equal length. Ant has 2 pair of unequal length.
Waist- Termite is broadly. Ant is narrow.
Subterranean Termites - correct-answer-Formosan and 5 other native
Maintain connection to the earth because they require moisture.
Workers follow cracks and crevices for food
Workers use soil and excrement to build tunnels/shelter tubes
Swarming: Formosan fly at dusk in May and June. 4 of 5 native fly morning/early
afternoon Feb through June.
Drywood Termites - correct-answer-Do not require contact with the earth, get
their humidity from the air and their food source.
Produce hard fecal pellets below infested wood
Swarming: late evening from spring - fall
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Carpenter Ants - correct-answer-Single Queen colonies and nest in rotten wood or
voids in buildings. Have main nest and satellite nests.
Nocturnal. Largest ant in GA
Do not eat wood, just chew out wet/rotten wood to make room for nests. Leave
pile on chewed wood/pieces of prey outside of infested wood
Wood Boring Beetles
Four Families of Beetles: - correct-answer-Holometabolous. Females lay eggs on
wood and larva hatch and borrow into the wood
3-5 instars to adult
1-4+ years from larva to pupa
Larva produce frass that falls from infested wood holes
True or Lyctid powderpost beetles
Deathwatch or Anobiid powderpost beetles
False powderpost beetles
Old House Borer
GEORGIA PEST CONTROL REGISTRATION
EXAM 2025 | COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS &
VERIFIED ANSWERS
Spiders - correct-answer-Arthropods, not insects. 8 legs. Body divided into 2
regions, cephalothorax (head and thorax combined) and abdomen.
Eggs laid in silk sac containing dozens of eggs.
Immature spiderlings look like adult and will molt 4-14 times over 1-5 years to
reach adulthood, adult lives 1-20 years.
All spiders eat other arthropods and insects. Beneficial.
Bed Bugs - correct-answer-3/16 x 1/8 inch reddish brown and flat. Nocturnal.
Feed on blood, swollen after feeding.
Undergo Paurametabolous (incomplete metamorphosis).
Egg to Adult 4-5 weeks in warm and humid
Egg to Adult 4 months in cold and dry
Adults live for several months - a couple years
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5 instars, blood meal required for each instar
Transported by luggage, clothing, or furniture. Infestations may produce foul odor
Termites - correct-answer-Social insects that feed on cellulose found in wood,
wood by products, and plants/fruit. Share food, but not as rapidly as ants.
Undergo Paurometaboly
1-2 instar - larva
3+ instar - worker
Adults - alates
Immature - nymph
Worker- 80% of colony. Searches for food, tunneling, take care of larva.
Soldier- protects against attacks from ants, etc. Have large mandibles (head and
jaw)
Only adults in the colony are the King and Queen, during swarm all adults (alates)
leave the nest and start new colonies. Neotenics are replacement queens.
Differences between Ants and Termites? - correct-answer-Antennae- Termite are
straight. Ant are elbowed.
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Wings- Termite has 2 pair of equal length. Ant has 2 pair of unequal length.
Waist- Termite is broadly. Ant is narrow.
Subterranean Termites - correct-answer-Formosan and 5 other native
Maintain connection to the earth because they require moisture.
Workers follow cracks and crevices for food
Workers use soil and excrement to build tunnels/shelter tubes
Swarming: Formosan fly at dusk in May and June. 4 of 5 native fly morning/early
afternoon Feb through June.
Drywood Termites - correct-answer-Do not require contact with the earth, get
their humidity from the air and their food source.
Produce hard fecal pellets below infested wood
Swarming: late evening from spring - fall
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Carpenter Ants - correct-answer-Single Queen colonies and nest in rotten wood or
voids in buildings. Have main nest and satellite nests.
Nocturnal. Largest ant in GA
Do not eat wood, just chew out wet/rotten wood to make room for nests. Leave
pile on chewed wood/pieces of prey outside of infested wood
Wood Boring Beetles
Four Families of Beetles: - correct-answer-Holometabolous. Females lay eggs on
wood and larva hatch and borrow into the wood
3-5 instars to adult
1-4+ years from larva to pupa
Larva produce frass that falls from infested wood holes
True or Lyctid powderpost beetles
Deathwatch or Anobiid powderpost beetles
False powderpost beetles
Old House Borer
