KANSAS COMMERCIAL PESTICIDE EXAMS SET 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔When raising the boom sprayer you....? - ✔✔Reduce or eliminate the overlap and
increase drift
✔✔What are some factors that you should think about before spraying? - ✔✔Wind,
temperature, droplet size
✔✔When using a tree injection system you should? - ✔✔Use low pressure and allow
the tree to uptake chemical
✔✔For treatment to be effective against perennial weeds? - ✔✔Must use a translocated
herbicide to control vegetative reproductive structure
✔✔What should you do if you spill chemical on your clothes? - ✔✔Remove clothes,
wash area thoroughly with soapy water, etc
✔✔The PPE that you wear when applying pesticides should be laundered? - ✔✔Wash
as soon as possible, do not let clothes sit around
✔✔What type of nozzle would you use for a band application? - ✔✔Even flat fan or flat
fan nozzle
✔✔What pump would you use if you wanted low flow rates and psi of up to 1000? -
✔✔Piston
✔✔When laundering clothes that were worn while spraying...? - ✔✔Launder daily
(within eight hours), keep separate from other clothing and inform person washing
clothes of pesticide use
✔✔How do you proper clean your nozzles? - ✔✔Move to an area where it is safe and
use a nozzle brush to clean nozzles
✔✔When tank mixing concentrates or highly toxic sprays...? - ✔✔Wear a face shield or
tight fitting goggles with anti-fog lenses and indirect venting
✔✔Which substance produces gas, vapors, fumes and requires special licensing to
handle? - ✔✔Fumigants
✔✔Who enforces the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)? -
✔✔The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
, ✔✔Who is responsible for enforcing the laws that regulate the use of pesticides for
structural
pest control? - ✔✔Minnesota Department of Public Health
✔✔An individual who applies pesticides for any purpose on property other than that
owned, rented or leased by themselves or their employer is a? - ✔✔Commercial For
Hire Pesticide Applicator
✔✔To purchase a "restricted" use pesticide? - ✔✔Must have a current valid pesticide
license or certification # must be recorded on
the retail invoice
✔✔Lawn Care Products Application and Notice Act require? - ✔✔Placement of markers
immediately after application to lawn is made
✔✔Applicators of "restricted" use pesticides must keep records for two years of what? -
✔✔Product used, amount applied, size of area treated, crop, commodity and location,
date and name of applicator
✔✔What are the types of control methods? - ✔✔Cultural, mechanical, biological,
chemical
✔✔What is the breakeven point at which the cost of pest control equals the revenue
loss caused by a pest? - ✔✔Economic injury level
✔✔What is incomplete development in insects or simple metamorphosis? - ✔✔Egg,
nymph, adult
✔✔What are the 4 life cycles? - ✔✔Egg, larva, pupa and adult
✔✔How many legs do mites have? - ✔✔4 pairs, eight legs
✔✔What animals are not protected by law? - ✔✔Starlings, house sparrows and feral
pigeons
✔✔What are these symptoms: soil compaction, pesticide or fertilizer excess,
temperature and moist extremes? - ✔✔Noninfectious disease
✔✔What is a yellowish-green coloration in normally green tissues such as leaves? -
✔✔Chlorosis
✔✔What is abnormal swelling in a portion of a branch, leaf, root or bud? - ✔✔Gall
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔When raising the boom sprayer you....? - ✔✔Reduce or eliminate the overlap and
increase drift
✔✔What are some factors that you should think about before spraying? - ✔✔Wind,
temperature, droplet size
✔✔When using a tree injection system you should? - ✔✔Use low pressure and allow
the tree to uptake chemical
✔✔For treatment to be effective against perennial weeds? - ✔✔Must use a translocated
herbicide to control vegetative reproductive structure
✔✔What should you do if you spill chemical on your clothes? - ✔✔Remove clothes,
wash area thoroughly with soapy water, etc
✔✔The PPE that you wear when applying pesticides should be laundered? - ✔✔Wash
as soon as possible, do not let clothes sit around
✔✔What type of nozzle would you use for a band application? - ✔✔Even flat fan or flat
fan nozzle
✔✔What pump would you use if you wanted low flow rates and psi of up to 1000? -
✔✔Piston
✔✔When laundering clothes that were worn while spraying...? - ✔✔Launder daily
(within eight hours), keep separate from other clothing and inform person washing
clothes of pesticide use
✔✔How do you proper clean your nozzles? - ✔✔Move to an area where it is safe and
use a nozzle brush to clean nozzles
✔✔When tank mixing concentrates or highly toxic sprays...? - ✔✔Wear a face shield or
tight fitting goggles with anti-fog lenses and indirect venting
✔✔Which substance produces gas, vapors, fumes and requires special licensing to
handle? - ✔✔Fumigants
✔✔Who enforces the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)? -
✔✔The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
, ✔✔Who is responsible for enforcing the laws that regulate the use of pesticides for
structural
pest control? - ✔✔Minnesota Department of Public Health
✔✔An individual who applies pesticides for any purpose on property other than that
owned, rented or leased by themselves or their employer is a? - ✔✔Commercial For
Hire Pesticide Applicator
✔✔To purchase a "restricted" use pesticide? - ✔✔Must have a current valid pesticide
license or certification # must be recorded on
the retail invoice
✔✔Lawn Care Products Application and Notice Act require? - ✔✔Placement of markers
immediately after application to lawn is made
✔✔Applicators of "restricted" use pesticides must keep records for two years of what? -
✔✔Product used, amount applied, size of area treated, crop, commodity and location,
date and name of applicator
✔✔What are the types of control methods? - ✔✔Cultural, mechanical, biological,
chemical
✔✔What is the breakeven point at which the cost of pest control equals the revenue
loss caused by a pest? - ✔✔Economic injury level
✔✔What is incomplete development in insects or simple metamorphosis? - ✔✔Egg,
nymph, adult
✔✔What are the 4 life cycles? - ✔✔Egg, larva, pupa and adult
✔✔How many legs do mites have? - ✔✔4 pairs, eight legs
✔✔What animals are not protected by law? - ✔✔Starlings, house sparrows and feral
pigeons
✔✔What are these symptoms: soil compaction, pesticide or fertilizer excess,
temperature and moist extremes? - ✔✔Noninfectious disease
✔✔What is a yellowish-green coloration in normally green tissues such as leaves? -
✔✔Chlorosis
✔✔What is abnormal swelling in a portion of a branch, leaf, root or bud? - ✔✔Gall
