MISSISSIPPI PESTICIDE LICENSE [2026] | UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS | A+
VERIFIED ANSWERS | COMPLETE EXAM PREPARATION
• Years experience within what time frame required to qualify for a license. -
✓✓ANSWER: 1 year within 3
• How long is a license valid. -✓✓ANSWER: Three years.
• Bond requirement for Pest control. -✓✓ANSWER: $5,000
• Insurance required per occurrence and aggregate. -✓✓ANSWER: $100,000 and
$200,000
• Time records are to be kept after the end of a contract. -✓✓ANSWER: 2 years
• How many hours of classroom training are required for a registered technician. -
✓✓ANSWER: 8 hours general training, and 8 hours specific to the category.
• To renew a license or permit, you must do what? -✓✓ANSWER: Complete an
approved training course, or pass an examination within the past 12 months.
• Types of insect life cycles. -✓✓ANSWER: Gradual - Complete - Ametabolus
(Without Metamorphosis)
• Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Beetles -✓✓ANSWER: Coleoptera -
Complete - Chewing
,• Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Butterflies & Moths -✓✓ANSWER:
Lepidoptera - Complete - Chewing as caterpillars, and siphoning as adults.
• Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of flies. -✓✓ANSWER: Diptera - Complete -
Chewing as immatures, and sucking or sponging as adults.
• Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Ants, Bees, and Wasps. -✓✓ANSWER:
Hymenoptera - Complete - Chewing or chewing and sucking
• Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of true bugs, cicadas, leafhoppers, fulgorids,
aphids, whiteflies, and scales. -✓✓ANSWER: Hemiptera - Gradual - Sucking
• Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Crickets and grasshoppers. -✓✓ANSWER:
Orthopetera - Gradual - Chewing
• Stages of a gradual life cycle. -✓✓ANSWER: Egg, nymph, and adult.
• Stages of a complete life cycle. -✓✓ANSWER: Egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
• Stages of ametabolus life cycle. -✓✓ANSWER: Young look just like adults in
every way, just smaller.
• Characteristics of Chewing mouthparts. -✓✓ANSWER: Strong mandibles, smaller
pair of maxillae.
,• Characteristics of Piercing/Sucking mouthparts. -✓✓ANSWER: Elongate holo
proboscis used to pierce plant, animal, or insect being fed upon to suck up sap or
blood.
• Characteristics of mouthparts used for both Chewing and Sucking -✓✓ANSWER:
Chewing mandibles as well as other mouthparts modified for sucking.
• Characteristics of mouthparts used for Sponging -✓✓ANSWER: Hollow proboscis
with an enlarged sponge-like structure.
• Characteristics of mouthparts used for Siphoning -✓✓ANSWER: Long hollow
proboscis usually rolled up when not in use.
• A large order of insects having a single pair of wings, and sucking or piercing
mouthparts. Describe picture. -✓✓ANSWER: Diptera (Flys)
• Leaf Miner - Describe picture, what they are, and how they feed. -✓✓ANSWER:
Various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf
tissue.
• Describe picture and name of result of damage from an insect to the leaf of a
plant. Insect is usually gone. -✓✓ANSWER: Leaf Gall
• Crane Fly (Identify, life cycle, and food) -✓✓ANSWER: Long-legged slender flies
that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite. Complete life cycle. Feeds on
grass roots, but adults do not feed.
, • Hymenoptera -✓✓ANSWER: an order of insects including: bees
• Cicada killer (Life cycle, food, and characteristic) -✓✓ANSWER: large black or
rust-colored wasp that preys on cicadas, complete life cycle, largest wasp
• Imported fire ant (Identify, life cycle, food, characteristics) -✓✓ANSWER:
Hymenoptera holometabolous chewing pest, Complete life cycle, feeds on insects
and seeds, has painful sting.
• Orthoptera -✓✓ANSWER: Order of grasshoppers, and crickets
• House crickets -✓✓ANSWER: nocturnal, live 2-3 months, lay 40 to 100 eggs
• Field cricket (Identify, life cycle, characteristics) -✓✓ANSWER: Common
American black cricket. Gradual life cycle, males use structures on their wings to
produce songs.
• Mole Cricket (Life cycle, food, and characteristics) -✓✓ANSWER: Digs in moist
soil and feeds on plant roots, gradual life cycle, and pests of golf courses.
• Chinch bugs - Describe picture and order -✓✓ANSWER: small black-and-white
insect that feeds on cereal grasses - Order of Hiemiptera
• Boxelder bugs - Describe picture and order. Where does it lay eggs, and survive
the winter? -✓✓ANSWER: Lays eggs on leaves of box elder trees, spend winters
behind walls of houses, feeds on seeds of box elder trees. Hemiptera order.
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS | A+
VERIFIED ANSWERS | COMPLETE EXAM PREPARATION
• Years experience within what time frame required to qualify for a license. -
✓✓ANSWER: 1 year within 3
• How long is a license valid. -✓✓ANSWER: Three years.
• Bond requirement for Pest control. -✓✓ANSWER: $5,000
• Insurance required per occurrence and aggregate. -✓✓ANSWER: $100,000 and
$200,000
• Time records are to be kept after the end of a contract. -✓✓ANSWER: 2 years
• How many hours of classroom training are required for a registered technician. -
✓✓ANSWER: 8 hours general training, and 8 hours specific to the category.
• To renew a license or permit, you must do what? -✓✓ANSWER: Complete an
approved training course, or pass an examination within the past 12 months.
• Types of insect life cycles. -✓✓ANSWER: Gradual - Complete - Ametabolus
(Without Metamorphosis)
• Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Beetles -✓✓ANSWER: Coleoptera -
Complete - Chewing
,• Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Butterflies & Moths -✓✓ANSWER:
Lepidoptera - Complete - Chewing as caterpillars, and siphoning as adults.
• Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of flies. -✓✓ANSWER: Diptera - Complete -
Chewing as immatures, and sucking or sponging as adults.
• Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Ants, Bees, and Wasps. -✓✓ANSWER:
Hymenoptera - Complete - Chewing or chewing and sucking
• Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of true bugs, cicadas, leafhoppers, fulgorids,
aphids, whiteflies, and scales. -✓✓ANSWER: Hemiptera - Gradual - Sucking
• Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Crickets and grasshoppers. -✓✓ANSWER:
Orthopetera - Gradual - Chewing
• Stages of a gradual life cycle. -✓✓ANSWER: Egg, nymph, and adult.
• Stages of a complete life cycle. -✓✓ANSWER: Egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
• Stages of ametabolus life cycle. -✓✓ANSWER: Young look just like adults in
every way, just smaller.
• Characteristics of Chewing mouthparts. -✓✓ANSWER: Strong mandibles, smaller
pair of maxillae.
,• Characteristics of Piercing/Sucking mouthparts. -✓✓ANSWER: Elongate holo
proboscis used to pierce plant, animal, or insect being fed upon to suck up sap or
blood.
• Characteristics of mouthparts used for both Chewing and Sucking -✓✓ANSWER:
Chewing mandibles as well as other mouthparts modified for sucking.
• Characteristics of mouthparts used for Sponging -✓✓ANSWER: Hollow proboscis
with an enlarged sponge-like structure.
• Characteristics of mouthparts used for Siphoning -✓✓ANSWER: Long hollow
proboscis usually rolled up when not in use.
• A large order of insects having a single pair of wings, and sucking or piercing
mouthparts. Describe picture. -✓✓ANSWER: Diptera (Flys)
• Leaf Miner - Describe picture, what they are, and how they feed. -✓✓ANSWER:
Various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf
tissue.
• Describe picture and name of result of damage from an insect to the leaf of a
plant. Insect is usually gone. -✓✓ANSWER: Leaf Gall
• Crane Fly (Identify, life cycle, and food) -✓✓ANSWER: Long-legged slender flies
that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite. Complete life cycle. Feeds on
grass roots, but adults do not feed.
, • Hymenoptera -✓✓ANSWER: an order of insects including: bees
• Cicada killer (Life cycle, food, and characteristic) -✓✓ANSWER: large black or
rust-colored wasp that preys on cicadas, complete life cycle, largest wasp
• Imported fire ant (Identify, life cycle, food, characteristics) -✓✓ANSWER:
Hymenoptera holometabolous chewing pest, Complete life cycle, feeds on insects
and seeds, has painful sting.
• Orthoptera -✓✓ANSWER: Order of grasshoppers, and crickets
• House crickets -✓✓ANSWER: nocturnal, live 2-3 months, lay 40 to 100 eggs
• Field cricket (Identify, life cycle, characteristics) -✓✓ANSWER: Common
American black cricket. Gradual life cycle, males use structures on their wings to
produce songs.
• Mole Cricket (Life cycle, food, and characteristics) -✓✓ANSWER: Digs in moist
soil and feeds on plant roots, gradual life cycle, and pests of golf courses.
• Chinch bugs - Describe picture and order -✓✓ANSWER: small black-and-white
insect that feeds on cereal grasses - Order of Hiemiptera
• Boxelder bugs - Describe picture and order. Where does it lay eggs, and survive
the winter? -✓✓ANSWER: Lays eggs on leaves of box elder trees, spend winters
behind walls of houses, feeds on seeds of box elder trees. Hemiptera order.
