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GENERAL PEST
GENERAL PEST CONTROL 7A EXAM QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS| GRADE A| 100% CORRECT (VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS) (2025/ 2026 )
1. Biological Control:: Biological control involves the use of
naturally occurring enemies—parasites, predators, and disease agents
(pathogens).
Never complete
Low-cost control method
2. Cultural Control: Agricultural practices used to alter the
environment, the condition of the host, or the behavior of the pest to
prevent or suppress an infestation. Planting and Growing crop or
pasture rotation
3. Mechanical Control:: Devices and machines used to control
pests or alter their environment are called mechanical controls.
Traps or Barriers
GENERAL PEST
,4. Sanitation: Sanitation practices help to suppress some pests by
removing sources of food and shelter.
5. Chemical control: Pesticides are chemicals used to destroy
pests, control their activity, or prevent them from causing damage.
6. Pest Resistance to Pesticides: The ability of pests to resist
poisoning is called pesticide resistance
7. Soil Factors: Organic matter in soils may "tie up" pesticides, limiting
their activity
8. Surface Moisture: Pesticides work best with moderate surface
moisture.
9. Humidity and Temperature: Herbicides often work best when
weeds are growing fast—usually in high humidity and optimum
temperature.
10. Wind:: Excessive wind can blow the pesticide off target and result
in inadequate control.
11. Principle of Pest Control:: Modern pest control uses all
available methods to keep pests below economically harmful levels,
and damages the environment as little as possible in the process.
, 12. Integrated Pest Management (IPM): is the planned manipulation
of pest populations in an attempt to achieve a balance between costs
and returns, and between farm production and the overall
environment.
13. Economic injury level:: is the lowest number of pests that will
cause an amount of injury equal to the cost of applied control
practices.
14. Economic threshold: sometimes called the "action threshold" is
the pest number or density at which remedial control practices should
be taken to prevent the pests from exceeding the economic injury
level.
15. Insects:: They are found in soil, hot springs, water, snow, air, and
inside plants and animals.
16. Species of minor importance:: 99 percent of all species are in
this category.
17. Beneficial Insects:: insects that are natural predators and
parasites that control/feed other pests
GENERAL PEST
GENERAL PEST CONTROL 7A EXAM QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS| GRADE A| 100% CORRECT (VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS) (2025/ 2026 )
1. Biological Control:: Biological control involves the use of
naturally occurring enemies—parasites, predators, and disease agents
(pathogens).
Never complete
Low-cost control method
2. Cultural Control: Agricultural practices used to alter the
environment, the condition of the host, or the behavior of the pest to
prevent or suppress an infestation. Planting and Growing crop or
pasture rotation
3. Mechanical Control:: Devices and machines used to control
pests or alter their environment are called mechanical controls.
Traps or Barriers
GENERAL PEST
,4. Sanitation: Sanitation practices help to suppress some pests by
removing sources of food and shelter.
5. Chemical control: Pesticides are chemicals used to destroy
pests, control their activity, or prevent them from causing damage.
6. Pest Resistance to Pesticides: The ability of pests to resist
poisoning is called pesticide resistance
7. Soil Factors: Organic matter in soils may "tie up" pesticides, limiting
their activity
8. Surface Moisture: Pesticides work best with moderate surface
moisture.
9. Humidity and Temperature: Herbicides often work best when
weeds are growing fast—usually in high humidity and optimum
temperature.
10. Wind:: Excessive wind can blow the pesticide off target and result
in inadequate control.
11. Principle of Pest Control:: Modern pest control uses all
available methods to keep pests below economically harmful levels,
and damages the environment as little as possible in the process.
, 12. Integrated Pest Management (IPM): is the planned manipulation
of pest populations in an attempt to achieve a balance between costs
and returns, and between farm production and the overall
environment.
13. Economic injury level:: is the lowest number of pests that will
cause an amount of injury equal to the cost of applied control
practices.
14. Economic threshold: sometimes called the "action threshold" is
the pest number or density at which remedial control practices should
be taken to prevent the pests from exceeding the economic injury
level.
15. Insects:: They are found in soil, hot springs, water, snow, air, and
inside plants and animals.
16. Species of minor importance:: 99 percent of all species are in
this category.
17. Beneficial Insects:: insects that are natural predators and
parasites that control/feed other pests
