KANSAS COMMERCIAL PESTICIDE APPLICATOR FINAL
PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
A+
✔✔(Beneficials) True or False. Insects may be infested with many different types of
pathogens, much like humans. However, viruses cannot infect insects.
a. true
b. false - ✔✔b. false
✔✔(Fruit) This caterpillar is the familiar "apple worm" but also attacks pear, crabapple,
and English walnut. Which insect is it?
a. codling moth
b. San Jose scale
c. plum curculio
d. peach tree borer - ✔✔a. codling moth
✔✔(Fruit) The San Jose scale is best managed by:
a. spraying all four sides of the tree
b. applying oil
c. picking of the scales
d. cutting off affected parts of the tree - ✔✔b. applying oil
✔✔(Fruit) San Jose scale are usually found ____________ of the apple tree.
a. on leaves
b. on the roots
c. beneath loose bark
d. on fruit - ✔✔c. beneath loose bark
✔✔(Fruit) Bronzing of apple tree leaves is caused by the:
a. codling moth
b. European red mite
c. San Jose scale
d. plum curculio - ✔✔b. European red mite
✔✔(Fruit) The adult plum curculio overwinters:
a. in debris in and around the orchard
b. in bunch grasses
c. in plum trees
d. underground around fruit trees - ✔✔a. in debris in and around the orchard
✔✔(Fruit) One of the most destructive pests of peach trees is:
a. peach tree borer
b. plum curculio
c. diamondback moth
, d. gypsy moth - ✔✔a. peach tree borer
✔✔(Fruit) This insect pest that attacks most orchard fruits, but prefers peaches is the:
a. plum curculio
b. codling moth
c. oriental fruit moth
d. gypsy moth - ✔✔c. oriental fruit moth
✔✔(Fruit) ____________ is important in the management of fruit insect and mite pests.
a. plant health
b. overwatering
c. overfertilization
d. none of the above - ✔✔a. plant health
✔✔(Vegetable) The three general categories of vegetable insect pests are sucking,
chewing and:
a. flying
b. biting
c. stinging
d. soil - ✔✔d. soil
✔✔(Vegetable) ____________ are the immature stage of May or June beetles.
a. wireworms
b. white grubs
c. cutworms
d. sowbugs - ✔✔b. white grubs
✔✔(Vegetable) Squash bug nymphs are found in clusters feeding on leaves, stems,
and fruits of squash and pumpkin plant. They:
a. damage the plants by chewing and shredding them.
b. can give humans a painful bite
c. have a disagreeable odor when crushed
d. are a dark gray when newly hatched - ✔✔c. have a disagreeable odor when crushed
✔✔(Vegetable) The following is true of aphids on vegetable crops:
a. heavy infestations stunt plants
b. the largest aphids are about one inch long
c. they are usually found on the top sides of the leaves
d. they cannot transmit disease - ✔✔a. heavy infestations stunt plants
✔✔(Vegetable) One of the most common mites attacking vegetables, especially
tomatoes, curcubits, and beans is the:
a. banks grass mite
b. twospotted spider mite
PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
A+
✔✔(Beneficials) True or False. Insects may be infested with many different types of
pathogens, much like humans. However, viruses cannot infect insects.
a. true
b. false - ✔✔b. false
✔✔(Fruit) This caterpillar is the familiar "apple worm" but also attacks pear, crabapple,
and English walnut. Which insect is it?
a. codling moth
b. San Jose scale
c. plum curculio
d. peach tree borer - ✔✔a. codling moth
✔✔(Fruit) The San Jose scale is best managed by:
a. spraying all four sides of the tree
b. applying oil
c. picking of the scales
d. cutting off affected parts of the tree - ✔✔b. applying oil
✔✔(Fruit) San Jose scale are usually found ____________ of the apple tree.
a. on leaves
b. on the roots
c. beneath loose bark
d. on fruit - ✔✔c. beneath loose bark
✔✔(Fruit) Bronzing of apple tree leaves is caused by the:
a. codling moth
b. European red mite
c. San Jose scale
d. plum curculio - ✔✔b. European red mite
✔✔(Fruit) The adult plum curculio overwinters:
a. in debris in and around the orchard
b. in bunch grasses
c. in plum trees
d. underground around fruit trees - ✔✔a. in debris in and around the orchard
✔✔(Fruit) One of the most destructive pests of peach trees is:
a. peach tree borer
b. plum curculio
c. diamondback moth
, d. gypsy moth - ✔✔a. peach tree borer
✔✔(Fruit) This insect pest that attacks most orchard fruits, but prefers peaches is the:
a. plum curculio
b. codling moth
c. oriental fruit moth
d. gypsy moth - ✔✔c. oriental fruit moth
✔✔(Fruit) ____________ is important in the management of fruit insect and mite pests.
a. plant health
b. overwatering
c. overfertilization
d. none of the above - ✔✔a. plant health
✔✔(Vegetable) The three general categories of vegetable insect pests are sucking,
chewing and:
a. flying
b. biting
c. stinging
d. soil - ✔✔d. soil
✔✔(Vegetable) ____________ are the immature stage of May or June beetles.
a. wireworms
b. white grubs
c. cutworms
d. sowbugs - ✔✔b. white grubs
✔✔(Vegetable) Squash bug nymphs are found in clusters feeding on leaves, stems,
and fruits of squash and pumpkin plant. They:
a. damage the plants by chewing and shredding them.
b. can give humans a painful bite
c. have a disagreeable odor when crushed
d. are a dark gray when newly hatched - ✔✔c. have a disagreeable odor when crushed
✔✔(Vegetable) The following is true of aphids on vegetable crops:
a. heavy infestations stunt plants
b. the largest aphids are about one inch long
c. they are usually found on the top sides of the leaves
d. they cannot transmit disease - ✔✔a. heavy infestations stunt plants
✔✔(Vegetable) One of the most common mites attacking vegetables, especially
tomatoes, curcubits, and beans is the:
a. banks grass mite
b. twospotted spider mite
