Landscape Maintenance QAL Questions and Answers 100% Correct!

Where does a maintenance gardener spray? - ANSWER-On or around ornamental plants, turf, fruit trees, shrubs, and small fruits and berries. Areas typically include homes, businesses, cemeteries, parks, malls and places with indoor plants. Work often around human activities. Why does a maintenance gardener spray? - ANSWER-To control a pest so that it does not compete with other plants for nutrition, and for aesthetics. What is a weed? - ANSWER-A weed is a plant that is not desired in a landscape. Weeds also compete with desired plants for water, nutrition, and space. What is a pest? - ANSWER-A pest is an organism that can cause problems in various ways including: competing with people for food and fiber; transmitting diseases between plants, damaging plants, and damaging structures Why is it important to identify a pest? - ANSWER-Misidentification and lack of information about a pest could cause you to choose the wrong control method or apply the control at the wrong time. True or False? Pesticide labels refer to most pests by their common names. - ANSWER-True, like housefly, roof rat, american cockroach Name four stages of insect growth changes. - ANSWER-Eggs, larval, pupal, and adult What stage of growth are weeds most readily controlled? - ANSWER-Seedling Stage True or False? Most perennial weeds are not susceptible to herbicides during early bloom stages. - ANSWER-True