SC General and Structural Pest
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What is the series of events from egg to adult called? - Answer✅✅Lifecycle
What is metamorphosis? - Answer✅✅The change that must take place in before
the young insect matures into an adult is called Metamorphosis
What Phylum do all insect-related animals belong to? - Answer✅✅All insect-
related animals such as mites, ticks, and spiders belong to a phulum called the
Arthropoda
What are Arachnids? - Answer✅✅Spiders, Mites, scorpions, and ticks. Most
arthropod pests are insects or arachnids.
- four pairs of legs
- two body segments (abdomen and cephalothorax)
Name the four control strategies used to attempt the control of arthropods or
rodents. - Answer✅✅1. Resource Management/Environment Manipulation
2. Prevention/Mechanical Barriers
3. Biological Control
4. Chemical Control
, Resource Management/Environment Manipulation - Answer✅✅Management of
food, water, and shelter availability, and habitat modification to minimize or
eliminate pest is usually one of the most effective methods for controlling pests.
Prevention/Mechanical Barriers - Answer✅✅Barriers such as screens, netting, and
protective clothing all are mechanical means to protect people from biting and
nuisance insects.
Biological Control - Answer✅✅The use of predators, parasites, and pathogens
(insect diseases) can be effective in controlling some pest species, if the beneficial
organisms can establish themselves or if a population can be maintained.
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) - Answer✅✅This concept uses a combination
of biological, environmental and chemical control methods
IPM- How? - Answer✅✅Controlling pests by stressing non-chemical methods is the
goal of pest management programs
IPM- Why? - Answer✅✅An IPM program seeks to maintain to maintain pest
populations below the level at which they cause problems.
IPM - Answer✅✅It is an alternative and improved approach to traditional pest
management. I uses information on the life cycles of pests and their interactions
with the environment, in combination with available pest control methods, to
manage pests by the most economical means with the least possible damage to
people, property, and the environment.
IPM- Program - Answer✅✅Under an IPM program, spraying is used ONLY when
ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY
What is the difference between winged ants and termite swarmers? -
Answer✅✅Thee key features can quickly identify winged ants:
1. A pinched waist
2. Elbowed antennae
3. Wings of different lengths
Which ant species has a heart-shaped abdomen? - Answer✅✅Acrobat Ant
Where do odorous house ants get their name? - Answer✅✅The odor they give off
when they are crushed, smells like rotten coconut
What type of control is best for red imported fire ants? - Answer✅✅Broadcast
baiting followed by mound drenching
What is "budding"? - Answer✅✅When pharaoh ants separate into multiple
colonies due to liquid insecticide treatment
, Order - Answer✅✅Group of similar families
Complete Metamorphosis - Answer✅✅Insect development consisting of four
stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult
Castes - Answer✅✅- ants in a colony are grouped into castes based off of the tasks
they perform.
- Castes consist of workers, queens and alates.
Ant workers - Answer✅✅- Sterile females, and they make up the largest cast in the
ant colony
- The workers protect the nest against invaders, gather food, serve the queen, and
care for the young ants
Ants (food) - Answer✅✅- Collected by foraging workers is passed mouth to mouth
among themselves and to other workers, larvae, and the queen.
- This process is the only means by which the queen and larvae of the ant colony can
obtain food
- This transfer of food is an important element in the design and effectiveness of ant
baits
Alates - Answer✅✅Winged adult fertile males and females that leave existing
colonies to establish new ones
Male ants - Answer✅✅- Found in colonies only during swarmer formation
- Sole purpose: mating, and most die soon afterwards.
Control of Ants - Answer✅✅- Usually multi-step process including
- Proper Identification
- Location of all nests
- Baiting
- Perimeter barrier treatment
- Non-chemical methods
Five Types of Ants in South Carolina that cause most problems - Answer✅✅1. Red
Imported Fire Ants
2. Argentine Ants
3. Odorous House Ants
4. Pharaoh Ants
5. Acrobat Ants
Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta) - Answer✅✅- Redish-Brown
- 1/16 to 1/4 of an inch
- Extremely Aggressive
- Workers are different sizes (Polymorphic)
- Prefers open areas, yards, school playgrounds, athletic fields, campgrounds, and
golf courses
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What is the series of events from egg to adult called? - Answer✅✅Lifecycle
What is metamorphosis? - Answer✅✅The change that must take place in before
the young insect matures into an adult is called Metamorphosis
What Phylum do all insect-related animals belong to? - Answer✅✅All insect-
related animals such as mites, ticks, and spiders belong to a phulum called the
Arthropoda
What are Arachnids? - Answer✅✅Spiders, Mites, scorpions, and ticks. Most
arthropod pests are insects or arachnids.
- four pairs of legs
- two body segments (abdomen and cephalothorax)
Name the four control strategies used to attempt the control of arthropods or
rodents. - Answer✅✅1. Resource Management/Environment Manipulation
2. Prevention/Mechanical Barriers
3. Biological Control
4. Chemical Control
, Resource Management/Environment Manipulation - Answer✅✅Management of
food, water, and shelter availability, and habitat modification to minimize or
eliminate pest is usually one of the most effective methods for controlling pests.
Prevention/Mechanical Barriers - Answer✅✅Barriers such as screens, netting, and
protective clothing all are mechanical means to protect people from biting and
nuisance insects.
Biological Control - Answer✅✅The use of predators, parasites, and pathogens
(insect diseases) can be effective in controlling some pest species, if the beneficial
organisms can establish themselves or if a population can be maintained.
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) - Answer✅✅This concept uses a combination
of biological, environmental and chemical control methods
IPM- How? - Answer✅✅Controlling pests by stressing non-chemical methods is the
goal of pest management programs
IPM- Why? - Answer✅✅An IPM program seeks to maintain to maintain pest
populations below the level at which they cause problems.
IPM - Answer✅✅It is an alternative and improved approach to traditional pest
management. I uses information on the life cycles of pests and their interactions
with the environment, in combination with available pest control methods, to
manage pests by the most economical means with the least possible damage to
people, property, and the environment.
IPM- Program - Answer✅✅Under an IPM program, spraying is used ONLY when
ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY
What is the difference between winged ants and termite swarmers? -
Answer✅✅Thee key features can quickly identify winged ants:
1. A pinched waist
2. Elbowed antennae
3. Wings of different lengths
Which ant species has a heart-shaped abdomen? - Answer✅✅Acrobat Ant
Where do odorous house ants get their name? - Answer✅✅The odor they give off
when they are crushed, smells like rotten coconut
What type of control is best for red imported fire ants? - Answer✅✅Broadcast
baiting followed by mound drenching
What is "budding"? - Answer✅✅When pharaoh ants separate into multiple
colonies due to liquid insecticide treatment
, Order - Answer✅✅Group of similar families
Complete Metamorphosis - Answer✅✅Insect development consisting of four
stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult
Castes - Answer✅✅- ants in a colony are grouped into castes based off of the tasks
they perform.
- Castes consist of workers, queens and alates.
Ant workers - Answer✅✅- Sterile females, and they make up the largest cast in the
ant colony
- The workers protect the nest against invaders, gather food, serve the queen, and
care for the young ants
Ants (food) - Answer✅✅- Collected by foraging workers is passed mouth to mouth
among themselves and to other workers, larvae, and the queen.
- This process is the only means by which the queen and larvae of the ant colony can
obtain food
- This transfer of food is an important element in the design and effectiveness of ant
baits
Alates - Answer✅✅Winged adult fertile males and females that leave existing
colonies to establish new ones
Male ants - Answer✅✅- Found in colonies only during swarmer formation
- Sole purpose: mating, and most die soon afterwards.
Control of Ants - Answer✅✅- Usually multi-step process including
- Proper Identification
- Location of all nests
- Baiting
- Perimeter barrier treatment
- Non-chemical methods
Five Types of Ants in South Carolina that cause most problems - Answer✅✅1. Red
Imported Fire Ants
2. Argentine Ants
3. Odorous House Ants
4. Pharaoh Ants
5. Acrobat Ants
Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta) - Answer✅✅- Redish-Brown
- 1/16 to 1/4 of an inch
- Extremely Aggressive
- Workers are different sizes (Polymorphic)
- Prefers open areas, yards, school playgrounds, athletic fields, campgrounds, and
golf courses
