MISSISSIPPI PESTICIDE LICENSE
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ What effects do aphids have of plants?
Answer: Foliage curls or is otherwise distorted.
⩥ What do aphids produce?
Answer: "Honeydew, a sweet liquid which collects on the foliage where
black sooty mold grows on it."
⩥ How do you controll sooty mold?
Answer: By contolling the aphids.
⩥ What are mites closely related to?
Answer: Insects.
⩥ Mites are hard to see without what.
Answer: Magnification
⩥ Mites sometimes form what.
Answer: Webs on the lower leaf surface.
,⩥ How do mites damage leaves?
Answer: By sucking sap from leaves.
⩥ What does damaged foilage look like?
Answer: "Stippled and may turn off-green, yellow, or orange."
⩥ What do lacebugs look like?
Answer: "Small, broad, flat insects with clear lace-like wings."
⩥ What do adult and young lacebugs suck from plants?
Answer: Sap
⩥ What does lacebug damage look like?
Answer: "Off colored speckles, yellowing, and leaf spot."
⩥ What other evidence does lacebugs leave behind?
Answer: "Small, black, varnish-like spots of excrement on the
undersides of leaves."
⩥ What do scale and mealybugs insects both use to cover them.
Answer: They secrete a waxy protective substance.
,⩥ What are newly hatched scale insects called?
Answer: Crawlers
⩥ Crawlers move around on the what?
Answer: Plant
⩥ What kind of scale insects are securely fastened to the plant surface.
Answer: Mature Scale
⩥ What does large numbers of scale form on plants?
Answer: A crust.
⩥ What are larvae of some moths and beetles?
Answer: Borers
⩥ Where do borers do most of ther damage?
Answer: In living cells just under the bark.
⩥ What tyeps of plants are more susceptible be attacked?
Answer: unhealthy plants
, ⩥ "Name some insects that damage leaves, buds, fruits, and flowers."
Answer: "Caterpillers, beetles, leafminers, aphids, mites, and lace bugs"
⩥ "Name some insect pest that attack trunks, stems, or branches."
Answer: Scale insects and mealybugs
⩥ What are larvar of hard shelled beetles or weevils?
Answer: Grubs
⩥ What color are gubs usually?
Answer: White with brown heads.
⩥ Some grubs have __________ and some are legless.
Answer: Legs
⩥ What do grubs eat?
Answer: Plant roots
⩥ What effect does grub damage have on plants?
Answer: It weakens them or kills them.
⩥ What are root borers?
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ What effects do aphids have of plants?
Answer: Foliage curls or is otherwise distorted.
⩥ What do aphids produce?
Answer: "Honeydew, a sweet liquid which collects on the foliage where
black sooty mold grows on it."
⩥ How do you controll sooty mold?
Answer: By contolling the aphids.
⩥ What are mites closely related to?
Answer: Insects.
⩥ Mites are hard to see without what.
Answer: Magnification
⩥ Mites sometimes form what.
Answer: Webs on the lower leaf surface.
,⩥ How do mites damage leaves?
Answer: By sucking sap from leaves.
⩥ What does damaged foilage look like?
Answer: "Stippled and may turn off-green, yellow, or orange."
⩥ What do lacebugs look like?
Answer: "Small, broad, flat insects with clear lace-like wings."
⩥ What do adult and young lacebugs suck from plants?
Answer: Sap
⩥ What does lacebug damage look like?
Answer: "Off colored speckles, yellowing, and leaf spot."
⩥ What other evidence does lacebugs leave behind?
Answer: "Small, black, varnish-like spots of excrement on the
undersides of leaves."
⩥ What do scale and mealybugs insects both use to cover them.
Answer: They secrete a waxy protective substance.
,⩥ What are newly hatched scale insects called?
Answer: Crawlers
⩥ Crawlers move around on the what?
Answer: Plant
⩥ What kind of scale insects are securely fastened to the plant surface.
Answer: Mature Scale
⩥ What does large numbers of scale form on plants?
Answer: A crust.
⩥ What are larvae of some moths and beetles?
Answer: Borers
⩥ Where do borers do most of ther damage?
Answer: In living cells just under the bark.
⩥ What tyeps of plants are more susceptible be attacked?
Answer: unhealthy plants
, ⩥ "Name some insects that damage leaves, buds, fruits, and flowers."
Answer: "Caterpillers, beetles, leafminers, aphids, mites, and lace bugs"
⩥ "Name some insect pest that attack trunks, stems, or branches."
Answer: Scale insects and mealybugs
⩥ What are larvar of hard shelled beetles or weevils?
Answer: Grubs
⩥ What color are gubs usually?
Answer: White with brown heads.
⩥ Some grubs have __________ and some are legless.
Answer: Legs
⩥ What do grubs eat?
Answer: Plant roots
⩥ What effect does grub damage have on plants?
Answer: It weakens them or kills them.
⩥ What are root borers?
