CDFA IPM STUDY GUIDE 2026
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND STEP
BY STEP SOLUTIONS
◉ What can be salvaged from a diseased colony
Answer: hive bodies (crates, boxes, ect.)
◉ What animal builds mud nests on the side of buildings
Answer: cliff swallows
◉ How do bees transport pollen
Answer: hind leg receptacles
◉ If the value of a crop decreases what happens to the Economic
Injury Level
Answer: it increases
◉ What is Economic Injury Level
Answer: depends more on the insect damage that can be tolerated
rather than population size
, ◉ What is the term for a domestic animal that escapes and becomes
established in the wild
Answer: feral animal
◉ Which is a biological control for Pacific Spider Mites and Rust
Mites
Answer: six spotted thirp
◉ Bees pollinate what crops in desert regions?
Answer: alfalfa
◉ Bees pollinate which crops in arid regions of CA, NV and AZ?
Answer: Cotton/Alfalfa
◉ Parasite of Alfalfa Butterfly is medicaginus cotesia, what does it
attack (what stage)
Answer: early instar
◉ What is eradication
Answer: usually pertains to outbreak of pest that is exotic from long
distances away and to completely remove a pest from an area
◉ What is true when putting out anticoagulant bait
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND STEP
BY STEP SOLUTIONS
◉ What can be salvaged from a diseased colony
Answer: hive bodies (crates, boxes, ect.)
◉ What animal builds mud nests on the side of buildings
Answer: cliff swallows
◉ How do bees transport pollen
Answer: hind leg receptacles
◉ If the value of a crop decreases what happens to the Economic
Injury Level
Answer: it increases
◉ What is Economic Injury Level
Answer: depends more on the insect damage that can be tolerated
rather than population size
, ◉ What is the term for a domestic animal that escapes and becomes
established in the wild
Answer: feral animal
◉ Which is a biological control for Pacific Spider Mites and Rust
Mites
Answer: six spotted thirp
◉ Bees pollinate what crops in desert regions?
Answer: alfalfa
◉ Bees pollinate which crops in arid regions of CA, NV and AZ?
Answer: Cotton/Alfalfa
◉ Parasite of Alfalfa Butterfly is medicaginus cotesia, what does it
attack (what stage)
Answer: early instar
◉ What is eradication
Answer: usually pertains to outbreak of pest that is exotic from long
distances away and to completely remove a pest from an area
◉ What is true when putting out anticoagulant bait
