SC GENERAL AND
STRUCTURAL PEST CONTROL
7A UPDATED NEWEST EXAM
LATEST GUIDE 2026/2027
GRADED A+ .
,1. What is the series of events from egg to adult called? ☑correct answer Lifecycle
2. What is metamorphosis? ☑correct answer The change that must take place in before the young insect matures into an adult is called Metamorphosis
3. What Phylum do all insect-related animals belong to? ☑correct answer All insect-related animals such as mites, ticks, and spiders belong
to a phulum called the Arthropoda
4. What are Arachnids? ☑correct answer Spiders, Mites, scorpions, and ticks. Most arthropod pests are insects or arachnids.
- four pairs of legs
- two body segments (abdomen and cephalothorax)
5. Name the four control strategies used to attempt the control of arthropods or rodents. ☑correct answer 1. Resource
Management/Environment Manipulation
2. Prevention/Mechanical Barriers
3. Biological Control
4. Chemical Control
6. Resource Management/Environment Manipulation ☑correct answer Management of food, water, and shelter availability, and habitat
modification to minimize or eliminate pest is usually one of the most ettective methods for controlling pests.
7. Prevention/Mechanical Barriers ☑correct answer Barriers such as screens, netting, and protective clothing all are
mechanical means to protect people from biting and nuisance insects.
8. Biological Control ☑correct answer The use of predators, parasites, and pathogens (insect diseases) can be ettective in controlling some pest species, if the
beneficial organisms can establish themselves or if a population can be maintained.
9. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) ☑correct answer This concept uses a combination of biological, environmental and chemical control methods
10. IPM- How? ☑correct answer Controlling pests by stressing non-chemical methods is the goal of pest management programs
11. IPM- Why? ☑correct answer An IPM program seeks to maintain to maintain pest populations below the level at which they cause problems.
12. IPM ☑correct 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.
13. IPM- Program ☑correct answer Under an IPM program, spraying is used ONLY when ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY
14. What is the difference between winged ants and termite swarmers? ☑correct answer Thee key features can quickly identify
winged ants ☑correct answer
1. A pinched waist
,2. Elbowed antennae
3. Wings of ditterent lengths
15. Which ant species has a heart-shaped abdomen? ☑correct answer Acrobat Ant
16. Where do odorous house ants get their name? ☑correct answer The odor they give ott when they are crushed, smells like rotten
coconut
17. What type of control is best for red imported fire ants? ☑correct answer Broadcast baiting followed by mound drenching
18. What is "budding"? ☑correct answer When pharaoh ants separate into multiple colonies due to liquid insecticide treat- ment
19. Order ☑correct answer Group of similar families
20. Complete Metamorphosis ☑correct answer Insect development consisting of four stages ☑correct answer egg, larva, pupa, and adult
21. Castes ☑correct answer - ants in a colony are grouped into castes based ott of the tasks they perform.
- Castes consist of workers, queens and alates.
22. Ant workers ☑correct 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
23. Ants (food) ☑correct 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 ettectiveness of ant baits
24. Alates ☑correct answer Winged adult fertile males and females that leave existing colonies to establish new ones
25. Male ants ☑correct answer - Found in colonies only during swarmer formation
- Sole purpose ☑correct answer mating, and most die soon afterwards.
26. Control of Ants ☑correct answer - Usually multi-step process including
- Proper Identification
- Location of all nests
- Baiting
- Perimeter barrier treatment
, - Non-chemical methods
27. Five Types of Ants in South Carolina that cause most problems ☑correct answer 1. Red Imported Fire Ants
2. Argentine Ants
3. Odorous House Ant
4. Pharaoh Ants
5. Acrobat Ants
28. Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta) ☑correct answer - Redish-Brown
- 1/16 to 1/4 of an inch
- Extremely Aggressive
- Workers are ditterent sizes (Polymorphic)
- Prefers open areas, yards, school playgrounds, athletic fields, campgrounds, and golf courses
- Sometimes nest in gas and water meter boxes, air conditioners, and other electrical equipment
- Follow pipes into structures
29. Red Imported Fire Ant Control ☑correct answer -Non-chemical control- lawn cut short
- Chemical control is best option
- Best achieved with two step process ☑correct answer
1. Broadcast a bait
2. Treat individual mounds with an approved mound drench, granule, aerosol, or dust insecticide (individual mounds should be treated no sooner
than 7 days after baits are applied
30. Argentine Ants ☑correct answer - Do not sting
- 1/16 of an inch, they are tiny
- light brown to dark brown
- Legs lighter in color
- Multiple Queen colonies, house a few hundred to a few thousand workers
- Usually mate in the nest, so winged swarmers are rare
- Indoors, usually located in moist places or near food
STRUCTURAL PEST CONTROL
7A UPDATED NEWEST EXAM
LATEST GUIDE 2026/2027
GRADED A+ .
,1. What is the series of events from egg to adult called? ☑correct answer Lifecycle
2. What is metamorphosis? ☑correct answer The change that must take place in before the young insect matures into an adult is called Metamorphosis
3. What Phylum do all insect-related animals belong to? ☑correct answer All insect-related animals such as mites, ticks, and spiders belong
to a phulum called the Arthropoda
4. What are Arachnids? ☑correct answer Spiders, Mites, scorpions, and ticks. Most arthropod pests are insects or arachnids.
- four pairs of legs
- two body segments (abdomen and cephalothorax)
5. Name the four control strategies used to attempt the control of arthropods or rodents. ☑correct answer 1. Resource
Management/Environment Manipulation
2. Prevention/Mechanical Barriers
3. Biological Control
4. Chemical Control
6. Resource Management/Environment Manipulation ☑correct answer Management of food, water, and shelter availability, and habitat
modification to minimize or eliminate pest is usually one of the most ettective methods for controlling pests.
7. Prevention/Mechanical Barriers ☑correct answer Barriers such as screens, netting, and protective clothing all are
mechanical means to protect people from biting and nuisance insects.
8. Biological Control ☑correct answer The use of predators, parasites, and pathogens (insect diseases) can be ettective in controlling some pest species, if the
beneficial organisms can establish themselves or if a population can be maintained.
9. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) ☑correct answer This concept uses a combination of biological, environmental and chemical control methods
10. IPM- How? ☑correct answer Controlling pests by stressing non-chemical methods is the goal of pest management programs
11. IPM- Why? ☑correct answer An IPM program seeks to maintain to maintain pest populations below the level at which they cause problems.
12. IPM ☑correct 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.
13. IPM- Program ☑correct answer Under an IPM program, spraying is used ONLY when ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY
14. What is the difference between winged ants and termite swarmers? ☑correct answer Thee key features can quickly identify
winged ants ☑correct answer
1. A pinched waist
,2. Elbowed antennae
3. Wings of ditterent lengths
15. Which ant species has a heart-shaped abdomen? ☑correct answer Acrobat Ant
16. Where do odorous house ants get their name? ☑correct answer The odor they give ott when they are crushed, smells like rotten
coconut
17. What type of control is best for red imported fire ants? ☑correct answer Broadcast baiting followed by mound drenching
18. What is "budding"? ☑correct answer When pharaoh ants separate into multiple colonies due to liquid insecticide treat- ment
19. Order ☑correct answer Group of similar families
20. Complete Metamorphosis ☑correct answer Insect development consisting of four stages ☑correct answer egg, larva, pupa, and adult
21. Castes ☑correct answer - ants in a colony are grouped into castes based ott of the tasks they perform.
- Castes consist of workers, queens and alates.
22. Ant workers ☑correct 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
23. Ants (food) ☑correct 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 ettectiveness of ant baits
24. Alates ☑correct answer Winged adult fertile males and females that leave existing colonies to establish new ones
25. Male ants ☑correct answer - Found in colonies only during swarmer formation
- Sole purpose ☑correct answer mating, and most die soon afterwards.
26. Control of Ants ☑correct answer - Usually multi-step process including
- Proper Identification
- Location of all nests
- Baiting
- Perimeter barrier treatment
, - Non-chemical methods
27. Five Types of Ants in South Carolina that cause most problems ☑correct answer 1. Red Imported Fire Ants
2. Argentine Ants
3. Odorous House Ant
4. Pharaoh Ants
5. Acrobat Ants
28. Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta) ☑correct answer - Redish-Brown
- 1/16 to 1/4 of an inch
- Extremely Aggressive
- Workers are ditterent sizes (Polymorphic)
- Prefers open areas, yards, school playgrounds, athletic fields, campgrounds, and golf courses
- Sometimes nest in gas and water meter boxes, air conditioners, and other electrical equipment
- Follow pipes into structures
29. Red Imported Fire Ant Control ☑correct answer -Non-chemical control- lawn cut short
- Chemical control is best option
- Best achieved with two step process ☑correct answer
1. Broadcast a bait
2. Treat individual mounds with an approved mound drench, granule, aerosol, or dust insecticide (individual mounds should be treated no sooner
than 7 days after baits are applied
30. Argentine Ants ☑correct answer - Do not sting
- 1/16 of an inch, they are tiny
- light brown to dark brown
- Legs lighter in color
- Multiple Queen colonies, house a few hundred to a few thousand workers
- Usually mate in the nest, so winged swarmers are rare
- Indoors, usually located in moist places or near food
