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OHIO PESTICIDE APPLICATOR EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST RELEASE 2025
Terms in this set (39)
What is the first thing you should Identify it
do when you detect the presence
of a pest that you think you may
need to control?
How can pest identification help Allows you to determine basic information about it, including its life
you develop a good pest control cycle and the time that it is most susceptible to being
strategy? controlled
Continuous pests Nearly always present and require regular control
Sporadic pests migratory, cyclical or other occasional pests that require control once in
awhile
Organisms that are not pests under normal conditions but can
Potential pests
become pests and require control in certain circumstances
Prevention: keeping a pest from becoming a problem,
Explain what is meant by
Suppression: reducing pest numbers or damage to an acceptable
prevention, suppression and
level, eradication: destroying an entire pest population
eradication of pests
Thresholds are levels of pest populations at which you must take
What is a threshold? Why should
pest control action to precent unacceptable damage or injury.
you
Use of threshold info can improve your pest control strategy by
consider thresholds when you
helping you make a decision about when to begin control
develop a pest control
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strategy? tactics.
Monitoring: Checking or scouting for pests in an area to determine
Describe pest monitoring and what pests are present and how much damage they are causing.
explain how it can be important to Monitoring is important to many
pest control strategy pest control strategies because it helps determine if the threshold
has been reached and whether control measures have been
effective
IPM is the combining of appropriate pest control tactics into a single
Define "integrated pest
plan tor educe pests and their damage to an acceptable level.
management" (IPM) and list
May include: host resistance,
several possible control tactics
biological control, cultural control, mechanical control, sanitation
that may be used in an IPM
and chemical control.
strategy
You applied a pesticide, but it did The failure of pesticides to control the pest might have been
not caused by pest resistance, choosing the wrong pesticide,
control the pest. Name three misidentifying the pest, applying the wrong amount or applying
reasons why your control effort the pesticide incorrectly.
might have failed.
What can you do to keep the pests Can be reducing by using IPM and rotating types of pesticides used
you are trying to control from
becoming resistant
to the pesticides you use?
The label is the info printed/attached on the container. Labeling
Explain the differences between the
includes the label itsself, plus all other information you receive from
terms "label" and "labeling"
the manufacturer about the
product when you buy it.
What do the words "restricted Means that the product has been shown to be likely to harm
use Pesticide" Tell you about the people or the environment if it is not used correctly. It may be
pesticide product? purchased and used only by certified applicators and those
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OHIO PESTICIDE APPLICATOR EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST RELEASE 2025
Terms in this set (39)
What is the first thing you should Identify it
do when you detect the presence
of a pest that you think you may
need to control?
How can pest identification help Allows you to determine basic information about it, including its life
you develop a good pest control cycle and the time that it is most susceptible to being
strategy? controlled
Continuous pests Nearly always present and require regular control
Sporadic pests migratory, cyclical or other occasional pests that require control once in
awhile
Organisms that are not pests under normal conditions but can
Potential pests
become pests and require control in certain circumstances
Prevention: keeping a pest from becoming a problem,
Explain what is meant by
Suppression: reducing pest numbers or damage to an acceptable
prevention, suppression and
level, eradication: destroying an entire pest population
eradication of pests
Thresholds are levels of pest populations at which you must take
What is a threshold? Why should
pest control action to precent unacceptable damage or injury.
you
Use of threshold info can improve your pest control strategy by
consider thresholds when you
helping you make a decision about when to begin control
develop a pest control
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strategy? tactics.
Monitoring: Checking or scouting for pests in an area to determine
Describe pest monitoring and what pests are present and how much damage they are causing.
explain how it can be important to Monitoring is important to many
pest control strategy pest control strategies because it helps determine if the threshold
has been reached and whether control measures have been
effective
IPM is the combining of appropriate pest control tactics into a single
Define "integrated pest
plan tor educe pests and their damage to an acceptable level.
management" (IPM) and list
May include: host resistance,
several possible control tactics
biological control, cultural control, mechanical control, sanitation
that may be used in an IPM
and chemical control.
strategy
You applied a pesticide, but it did The failure of pesticides to control the pest might have been
not caused by pest resistance, choosing the wrong pesticide,
control the pest. Name three misidentifying the pest, applying the wrong amount or applying
reasons why your control effort the pesticide incorrectly.
might have failed.
What can you do to keep the pests Can be reducing by using IPM and rotating types of pesticides used
you are trying to control from
becoming resistant
to the pesticides you use?
The label is the info printed/attached on the container. Labeling
Explain the differences between the
includes the label itsself, plus all other information you receive from
terms "label" and "labeling"
the manufacturer about the
product when you buy it.
What do the words "restricted Means that the product has been shown to be likely to harm
use Pesticide" Tell you about the people or the environment if it is not used correctly. It may be
pesticide product? purchased and used only by certified applicators and those
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