Texas Certified Applicator Exam prep
Ants with one node?* - ✔️✔️Carpenter, crazy, Rasberry Crazy, False Honey, Rover,
Argentine, Odorous, ghost, pyramid
To reduce contact with scorpions eliminate...?* - ✔️✔️Bricks, stones, wood, trash and
other potential harborage points.
Insect 3/4 inch yellowish brown with powerful hind legs.* - ✔️✔️The house/ field cricket
Ants with 2 nodes?* - ✔️✔️Fire, Thief, Pavement, Acrobat, Pharaoh, Little black,
Harvester, Big Headed, Leaf cutter, Acacia, elongated twig
Adult dull gray with 4 stripes on thorax?** - ✔️✔️House fly
Other than house flies what species of flys are common the residential environments.* -
✔️✔️Blue blow, Green blow, stable, Fruit flies, phorid, fungus gnats, moth flies
Four wings 3/4 inch wing spread fore wings are grey near body reddish at tips* -
✔️✔️Indian meal moths
Species of wasp that build home above and below ground* - ✔️✔️Yellow jacket
What is usually the cause when liquid flows into pump of a compressed sprayer and
shoots out the handle?** - ✔️✔️Worn Check Valve
Ants pose particular risk in hospitals because?** - ✔️✔️Carry diseases and organisms
on legs and body
The four distinct stages of mosquitoes.* - ✔️✔️Egg, larva, pupa and adult
Species of insect primary vector of yellow fever and dengue?** - ✔️✔️Aedes aegypti or
Asian Tiger mosquitoes
Lone star tick (amblyomma) primary vector of what diseases? - ✔️✔️Mono cystic
Ehrilichiosis and Southern Tick assisted rash illness
American Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis) is the primary vector of what diseases? -
✔️✔️Rocky Mountain fever and tuleremia anaplasmosis
, Black Legged Deer Tick is the primary vector of what disease - ✔️✔️Spirochete (Lyme
disease)
The most successful solutions or methods for achieving a rat free environment?* -
✔️✔️Rat Proofing
Describe droppings of Norway rat* - ✔️✔️3/4 inch capsule shape
Food handling establishments are?** - ✔️✔️Areas or places other than a private
resident in which food is prepared.
Thermal Fogger main disadvantage?** - ✔️✔️Fog rarely penetrates into cracks and
crevices unless air current runs in to the area.
Droplets of __ to __ microns range are more efficient in controlling cockroaches.* -
✔️✔️5 to 15
Is Tyvek QC a chemical resistant material for PPE?** - ✔️✔️No
Define systematic pesticide.* - ✔️✔️Pesticide that is absorbed or circulated within a
plant or animal making them toxic to pest.
Define suspension - ✔️✔️a mixture That contains fine solid particles mixed throughout
a liquid such as water or oil
Define toxicity.* - ✔️✔️The measure of a pesticides ability to cause a acute, delayed or
allergic Effects
True or False: For indoor treatment at a residential property with fewer than five rental
rooms an applicator should make pest control info sheet for each tenant.* - ✔️✔️True
Pest control use records must be kept on premise for how many years.* - ✔️✔️2 years
The Texas Department of agriculture may restrict advertisement or competitive bidding
to prohibit false, misleading, or deceptive practices give one example of deceptive
advertisement.** - ✔️✔️"We use only EPA approved products "
The TDA by rule shall adopt a policy that requires a business holding a structural pest
control business license to be inspected by field inspectors how often?** - ✔️✔️At least
1 time the first year and every 4 years after first year
Ants with one node?* - ✔️✔️Carpenter, crazy, Rasberry Crazy, False Honey, Rover,
Argentine, Odorous, ghost, pyramid
To reduce contact with scorpions eliminate...?* - ✔️✔️Bricks, stones, wood, trash and
other potential harborage points.
Insect 3/4 inch yellowish brown with powerful hind legs.* - ✔️✔️The house/ field cricket
Ants with 2 nodes?* - ✔️✔️Fire, Thief, Pavement, Acrobat, Pharaoh, Little black,
Harvester, Big Headed, Leaf cutter, Acacia, elongated twig
Adult dull gray with 4 stripes on thorax?** - ✔️✔️House fly
Other than house flies what species of flys are common the residential environments.* -
✔️✔️Blue blow, Green blow, stable, Fruit flies, phorid, fungus gnats, moth flies
Four wings 3/4 inch wing spread fore wings are grey near body reddish at tips* -
✔️✔️Indian meal moths
Species of wasp that build home above and below ground* - ✔️✔️Yellow jacket
What is usually the cause when liquid flows into pump of a compressed sprayer and
shoots out the handle?** - ✔️✔️Worn Check Valve
Ants pose particular risk in hospitals because?** - ✔️✔️Carry diseases and organisms
on legs and body
The four distinct stages of mosquitoes.* - ✔️✔️Egg, larva, pupa and adult
Species of insect primary vector of yellow fever and dengue?** - ✔️✔️Aedes aegypti or
Asian Tiger mosquitoes
Lone star tick (amblyomma) primary vector of what diseases? - ✔️✔️Mono cystic
Ehrilichiosis and Southern Tick assisted rash illness
American Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis) is the primary vector of what diseases? -
✔️✔️Rocky Mountain fever and tuleremia anaplasmosis
, Black Legged Deer Tick is the primary vector of what disease - ✔️✔️Spirochete (Lyme
disease)
The most successful solutions or methods for achieving a rat free environment?* -
✔️✔️Rat Proofing
Describe droppings of Norway rat* - ✔️✔️3/4 inch capsule shape
Food handling establishments are?** - ✔️✔️Areas or places other than a private
resident in which food is prepared.
Thermal Fogger main disadvantage?** - ✔️✔️Fog rarely penetrates into cracks and
crevices unless air current runs in to the area.
Droplets of __ to __ microns range are more efficient in controlling cockroaches.* -
✔️✔️5 to 15
Is Tyvek QC a chemical resistant material for PPE?** - ✔️✔️No
Define systematic pesticide.* - ✔️✔️Pesticide that is absorbed or circulated within a
plant or animal making them toxic to pest.
Define suspension - ✔️✔️a mixture That contains fine solid particles mixed throughout
a liquid such as water or oil
Define toxicity.* - ✔️✔️The measure of a pesticides ability to cause a acute, delayed or
allergic Effects
True or False: For indoor treatment at a residential property with fewer than five rental
rooms an applicator should make pest control info sheet for each tenant.* - ✔️✔️True
Pest control use records must be kept on premise for how many years.* - ✔️✔️2 years
The Texas Department of agriculture may restrict advertisement or competitive bidding
to prohibit false, misleading, or deceptive practices give one example of deceptive
advertisement.** - ✔️✔️"We use only EPA approved products "
The TDA by rule shall adopt a policy that requires a business holding a structural pest
control business license to be inspected by field inspectors how often?** - ✔️✔️At least
1 time the first year and every 4 years after first year
