Georgia Pesticide Applicators License Test–
Questions and Correct answers
IRAC - ✔✔Insecticide Resistance Action Committee
What is the mode of action - ✔✔A pesticide's mode of action is the method by which
it kills or adversely affects the target pest.
How many modes of action are there? - ✔✔28 main groups
What are the main six biological functions which are targeted? - ✔✔Nerve action,
muscle, energy metabolism, insect growth regulation, chitin synthesis inhibitors,
disruption of insect guts
Pyrethrin (natural) and Pyrethoids (man made) - ✔✔Anoxic poisons that bind to
sodium channels and block nervous system an excellent example is the product named
Talstar overstimulation
Neonicotinoids (Imidacloprid - used widely in agriculture) (Dinotefuran) bed bugs -
✔✔Affects the nervous system through a method of overstimulation
GABA Antagonists - ✔✔Example is Termidor SC
GABA can't bind to the receptor
Other insects won't recognize other individuals are infected
Inhibitor growth regulators (chitin inhibitor) this is used in sentricon - ✔✔Delays
growth of young
Questions and Correct answers
IRAC - ✔✔Insecticide Resistance Action Committee
What is the mode of action - ✔✔A pesticide's mode of action is the method by which
it kills or adversely affects the target pest.
How many modes of action are there? - ✔✔28 main groups
What are the main six biological functions which are targeted? - ✔✔Nerve action,
muscle, energy metabolism, insect growth regulation, chitin synthesis inhibitors,
disruption of insect guts
Pyrethrin (natural) and Pyrethoids (man made) - ✔✔Anoxic poisons that bind to
sodium channels and block nervous system an excellent example is the product named
Talstar overstimulation
Neonicotinoids (Imidacloprid - used widely in agriculture) (Dinotefuran) bed bugs -
✔✔Affects the nervous system through a method of overstimulation
GABA Antagonists - ✔✔Example is Termidor SC
GABA can't bind to the receptor
Other insects won't recognize other individuals are infected
Inhibitor growth regulators (chitin inhibitor) this is used in sentricon - ✔✔Delays
growth of young
