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OHIO COMMERCIAL PESTICIDE APPLICATOR
CATEGORY 6C – ORNAMENTAL WEED PEST
CONTROL EXAMINATION COMPLETE VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS LATEST
UPDATE THIS YEAR JUST RELEASED
What is a threshold? Why should you consider thresholds
when you develop a pest control strategy? - Answer-
Thresholds are the levels of pest populations at which you
must take pest control action to prevent unacceptable
damage or injury. Use of threshold information can
improve your pest control strategy by helping you make a
decision about when to begin control tactics.
Describe pest monitoring and explain how it can be
important to pest control strategy. - Answer-Monitoring is
checking or scouting for pests in an area to determine
what pests are present, how many of each kind of pest are
in the area, and how much damage they are causing.
Monitoring is important to many pest control strategies,
because it helps, determine if the threshold has been
reached and whether control measures have been
effective.
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Define "integrated pest management" (IPM) and list
several possible control tactics that may be used in an
IPM strategy. - Answer-Integrated pest management is the
combining of appropriate pest control tactics into a single
plan to reduce pests and their damage to an acceptable
level. Pest control tactics may include: host resistance,
biological control, cultural control, mechanical control,
sanitation, and chemical (pesticide) control.
You applied a pesticide, but it did not control the pest.
Name three reasons why your control effort might have
failed. - Answer-The failure of the pesticide to control the
pest might have been caused by pest resistance, choosing
the wrong pesticide, misidentifying the pest, applying the
wrong amount, or applying the pesticide incorrectly.
What can you do to keep the pests you are trying to
control from becoming resistance to the pesticides you
use? - Answer-Pest resistance can be reduced by using
integrated pest management and rotating the types of
pesticides used.
Explain the differences between the terms "label" and
"labeling." - Answer-The label is the information printed on
or attached to the pesticide container. Labeling includes
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the label itself, plus all other information you receive from
the manufacturer about the product when you buy it.
What do the words "Restricted Use Pesticide" tell you
about the pesticide product? - Answer-"Restricted Use
Pesticide" means that the product has been shown to be
likely to harm people or the environment if it is not used
correctly. It may be purchased and used only by certified
applicators and those under their direct supervision.
Where would you look to find out whether a pesticide is
classified as Restricted Use? - Answer-If a pesticide is
classified as Restricted Use, the words "Restricted Use
Pesticide" will appear in a box on the front panel of the
pesticide label.
Explain the difference between chemical name, common
name, and brand name. Which of these terms should you
use to most accurately identify a pesticide product? -
Answer-The chemical name is a complex name that
identifies the chemical components and structure of the
pesticide. A common name is a shorter name that EPA
recognizes as a substitute for the chemical name of a
product. A brand name is the name -- usually a trademark-
- used by a chemical company to identify a pesticide
OHIO COMMERCIAL PESTICIDE APPLICATOR
CATEGORY 6C – ORNAMENTAL WEED PEST
CONTROL EXAMINATION COMPLETE VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS LATEST
UPDATE THIS YEAR JUST RELEASED
What is a threshold? Why should you consider thresholds
when you develop a pest control strategy? - Answer-
Thresholds are the levels of pest populations at which you
must take pest control action to prevent unacceptable
damage or injury. Use of threshold information can
improve your pest control strategy by helping you make a
decision about when to begin control tactics.
Describe pest monitoring and explain how it can be
important to pest control strategy. - Answer-Monitoring is
checking or scouting for pests in an area to determine
what pests are present, how many of each kind of pest are
in the area, and how much damage they are causing.
Monitoring is important to many pest control strategies,
because it helps, determine if the threshold has been
reached and whether control measures have been
effective.
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Define "integrated pest management" (IPM) and list
several possible control tactics that may be used in an
IPM strategy. - Answer-Integrated pest management is the
combining of appropriate pest control tactics into a single
plan to reduce pests and their damage to an acceptable
level. Pest control tactics may include: host resistance,
biological control, cultural control, mechanical control,
sanitation, and chemical (pesticide) control.
You applied a pesticide, but it did not control the pest.
Name three reasons why your control effort might have
failed. - Answer-The failure of the pesticide to control the
pest might have been caused by pest resistance, choosing
the wrong pesticide, misidentifying the pest, applying the
wrong amount, or applying the pesticide incorrectly.
What can you do to keep the pests you are trying to
control from becoming resistance to the pesticides you
use? - Answer-Pest resistance can be reduced by using
integrated pest management and rotating the types of
pesticides used.
Explain the differences between the terms "label" and
"labeling." - Answer-The label is the information printed on
or attached to the pesticide container. Labeling includes
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the label itself, plus all other information you receive from
the manufacturer about the product when you buy it.
What do the words "Restricted Use Pesticide" tell you
about the pesticide product? - Answer-"Restricted Use
Pesticide" means that the product has been shown to be
likely to harm people or the environment if it is not used
correctly. It may be purchased and used only by certified
applicators and those under their direct supervision.
Where would you look to find out whether a pesticide is
classified as Restricted Use? - Answer-If a pesticide is
classified as Restricted Use, the words "Restricted Use
Pesticide" will appear in a box on the front panel of the
pesticide label.
Explain the difference between chemical name, common
name, and brand name. Which of these terms should you
use to most accurately identify a pesticide product? -
Answer-The chemical name is a complex name that
identifies the chemical components and structure of the
pesticide. A common name is a shorter name that EPA
recognizes as a substitute for the chemical name of a
product. A brand name is the name -- usually a trademark-
- used by a chemical company to identify a pesticide
