Pest Control Technician Training Texas
WDI Exam
What is the common name for the cone nose bug? - ✔️✔️Kissing Bug
What type of stinging insect is of great agricultural value? - ✔️✔️Honeybee
Name three type of stinging, flying insects. - ✔️✔️Paper wasp, Blue Faced Hornet and
Yellow Jacket
What type of spider is also called the fiddleback? - ✔️✔️The Brown Recluse Spider
What are the 4 stages of ant metamorphosis? - ✔️✔️Egg, Larvae, Pupae and Adult
(ELPA)
Ants have what type of antenna? - ✔️✔️Elbowed antenna
Name 4 species of flies. - ✔️✔️Blue Blow, Green Blow, Stable and House Fly
Name 3 species of Ants. - ✔️✔️Carpenter, Pharaoh, Big Head, Fire and Carpenter
This fly eats on dead and decaying flesh. - ✔️✔️Blue Blow Fly
Name two moths that infest stored food. - ✔️✔️Angoumois and Indian Meal Moth
Name 2 common fleas infesting homes. - ✔️✔️Cat, Ceratophyllidae, Pulex, Pulicidae
Name two beatles that infest stored food. - ✔️✔️Drugstore and Cigarette
How long do flea eggs take to hatch? - ✔️✔️Two days to two weeks
Name the 4 stage metamorphosis of fleas. - ✔️✔️Egg, Larvae, Pupae and Adult
(ELPA)
Name 2 diseases fleas spread through bites. - ✔️✔️Murine Typhus, Tape Worm, Cat
Scratch
What is the most common type of tick around the home? - ✔️✔️Deer, American Dog,
Brown Dog and Lone Star
Name the five most common cockroaches in Texas. - ✔️✔️German, American, Brown
Banded, Oriental and Smokey Brown
, What type of roach has wings that don't cover all its abdomen and cannot fly? -
✔️✔️Oriental
What roach has racing stripes on its head and body? - ✔️✔️German
Name three species of lice. - ✔️✔️Head, Body and Crab
Mites burrow in skin and cause what disease? - ✔️✔️Rickettsialpox, Scrub Typhus,
Chiggers and Scabies
What biting insect is 1/4" long, reddish brown, wingless, oval shaped and flat? -
✔️✔️Scabies
Name two diseases mosquitos spread. - ✔️✔️Malaryia, Typhoid Fever and West Niles
What do mosquito larvae require to survive? - ✔️✔️Stagnant Water
Name three species of mosquito larvae. - ✔️✔️Aedes, Anopheles and Culex
What insect hav fifteen body segments and a pair of legs for each segment? -
✔️✔️Texas Giant Centepede
This insect infests books. - ✔️✔️Silverfish
Name two species of crickets. - ✔️✔️Brown House Cricket and Black Field Cricket
What type of pest is a gastropod? - ✔️✔️Slugs and Snails
Describe a Norway Rat - ✔️✔️Large body, stubby nose, long tail, brown fur
Rodent infestations are characterized by what 4 major elements. - ✔️✔️Fecal matter,
gnawings, rub marks and caches
What i the name of a pest that spreads disease to pets, livestock and humans? -
✔️✔️Vector Pests
What species of termite lives in the soil? - ✔️✔️The Subteranean Termite
What invasive subterranean termite is not native to Texas? - ✔️✔️The Subterranean
Formosan Termite
WDI Exam
What is the common name for the cone nose bug? - ✔️✔️Kissing Bug
What type of stinging insect is of great agricultural value? - ✔️✔️Honeybee
Name three type of stinging, flying insects. - ✔️✔️Paper wasp, Blue Faced Hornet and
Yellow Jacket
What type of spider is also called the fiddleback? - ✔️✔️The Brown Recluse Spider
What are the 4 stages of ant metamorphosis? - ✔️✔️Egg, Larvae, Pupae and Adult
(ELPA)
Ants have what type of antenna? - ✔️✔️Elbowed antenna
Name 4 species of flies. - ✔️✔️Blue Blow, Green Blow, Stable and House Fly
Name 3 species of Ants. - ✔️✔️Carpenter, Pharaoh, Big Head, Fire and Carpenter
This fly eats on dead and decaying flesh. - ✔️✔️Blue Blow Fly
Name two moths that infest stored food. - ✔️✔️Angoumois and Indian Meal Moth
Name 2 common fleas infesting homes. - ✔️✔️Cat, Ceratophyllidae, Pulex, Pulicidae
Name two beatles that infest stored food. - ✔️✔️Drugstore and Cigarette
How long do flea eggs take to hatch? - ✔️✔️Two days to two weeks
Name the 4 stage metamorphosis of fleas. - ✔️✔️Egg, Larvae, Pupae and Adult
(ELPA)
Name 2 diseases fleas spread through bites. - ✔️✔️Murine Typhus, Tape Worm, Cat
Scratch
What is the most common type of tick around the home? - ✔️✔️Deer, American Dog,
Brown Dog and Lone Star
Name the five most common cockroaches in Texas. - ✔️✔️German, American, Brown
Banded, Oriental and Smokey Brown
, What type of roach has wings that don't cover all its abdomen and cannot fly? -
✔️✔️Oriental
What roach has racing stripes on its head and body? - ✔️✔️German
Name three species of lice. - ✔️✔️Head, Body and Crab
Mites burrow in skin and cause what disease? - ✔️✔️Rickettsialpox, Scrub Typhus,
Chiggers and Scabies
What biting insect is 1/4" long, reddish brown, wingless, oval shaped and flat? -
✔️✔️Scabies
Name two diseases mosquitos spread. - ✔️✔️Malaryia, Typhoid Fever and West Niles
What do mosquito larvae require to survive? - ✔️✔️Stagnant Water
Name three species of mosquito larvae. - ✔️✔️Aedes, Anopheles and Culex
What insect hav fifteen body segments and a pair of legs for each segment? -
✔️✔️Texas Giant Centepede
This insect infests books. - ✔️✔️Silverfish
Name two species of crickets. - ✔️✔️Brown House Cricket and Black Field Cricket
What type of pest is a gastropod? - ✔️✔️Slugs and Snails
Describe a Norway Rat - ✔️✔️Large body, stubby nose, long tail, brown fur
Rodent infestations are characterized by what 4 major elements. - ✔️✔️Fecal matter,
gnawings, rub marks and caches
What i the name of a pest that spreads disease to pets, livestock and humans? -
✔️✔️Vector Pests
What species of termite lives in the soil? - ✔️✔️The Subteranean Termite
What invasive subterranean termite is not native to Texas? - ✔️✔️The Subterranean
Formosan Termite
