TEXAS CERTIFIED APPLICATOR EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is usually the cause when liquid flows into pump of a compressed sprayer and shoots out
the handle?** - ANS Worn Check Valve
Ants with one node?* - ANS Carpenter, crazy, Rasberry Crazy, False Honey, Rover, Argentine,
Odorous, ghost, pyramid
Ants with 2 nodes?* - ANS Fire, Thief, Pavement, Acrobat, Pharaoh, Little black, Harvester,
Big Headed, Leaf cutter, Acacia, elongated twig
Adult dull gray with 4 stripes on thorax?** - ANS House fly
Other than house flies what species of flys are common the residential environments.* -
ANS Blue blow, Green blow, stable, Fruit flies, phorid, fungus gnats, moth flies
Four wings 3/4 inch wing spread fore wings are grey near body reddish at tips* - ANS Indian
meal moths
Species of wasp that build home above and below ground* - ANS Yellow jacket
To reduce contact with scorpions eliminate...?* - ANS Bricks, stones, wood, trash and other
potential harborage points.
Insect 3/4 inch yellowish brown with powerful hind legs.* - ANS The house/ field cricket
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, Ants pose particular risk in hospitals because?** - ANS Carry diseases and organisms on legs
and body
The four distinct stages of mosquitoes.* - ANS Egg, larva, pupa and adult
Species of insect primary vector of yellow fever and dengue?** - ANS Aedes aegypti or Asian
Tiger mosquitoes
Lone star tick (amblyomma) primary vector of what diseases? - ANS Mono cystic Ehrilichiosis
and Southern Tick assisted rash illness
American Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis) is the primary vector of what diseases? -
ANS Rocky Mountain fever and tuleremia anaplasmosis
Black Legged Deer Tick is the primary vector of what disease - ANS Spirochete (Lyme disease)
Court ruling "____________ __________" usually involves cases where children are attracted to
application equipment and pesticide left unattended by applicators.* - ANS Attractive
Nuisance
Rats have a home range of ?* - ANS 100ft - 150ft
Mice have a home range of ? - ANS 10ft-30ft
The most successful solutions or methods for achieving a rat free environment?* - ANS Rat
Proofing
Describe droppings of Norway rat* - ANS 3/4 inch capsule shape
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is usually the cause when liquid flows into pump of a compressed sprayer and shoots out
the handle?** - ANS Worn Check Valve
Ants with one node?* - ANS Carpenter, crazy, Rasberry Crazy, False Honey, Rover, Argentine,
Odorous, ghost, pyramid
Ants with 2 nodes?* - ANS Fire, Thief, Pavement, Acrobat, Pharaoh, Little black, Harvester,
Big Headed, Leaf cutter, Acacia, elongated twig
Adult dull gray with 4 stripes on thorax?** - ANS House fly
Other than house flies what species of flys are common the residential environments.* -
ANS Blue blow, Green blow, stable, Fruit flies, phorid, fungus gnats, moth flies
Four wings 3/4 inch wing spread fore wings are grey near body reddish at tips* - ANS Indian
meal moths
Species of wasp that build home above and below ground* - ANS Yellow jacket
To reduce contact with scorpions eliminate...?* - ANS Bricks, stones, wood, trash and other
potential harborage points.
Insect 3/4 inch yellowish brown with powerful hind legs.* - ANS The house/ field cricket
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, Ants pose particular risk in hospitals because?** - ANS Carry diseases and organisms on legs
and body
The four distinct stages of mosquitoes.* - ANS Egg, larva, pupa and adult
Species of insect primary vector of yellow fever and dengue?** - ANS Aedes aegypti or Asian
Tiger mosquitoes
Lone star tick (amblyomma) primary vector of what diseases? - ANS Mono cystic Ehrilichiosis
and Southern Tick assisted rash illness
American Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis) is the primary vector of what diseases? -
ANS Rocky Mountain fever and tuleremia anaplasmosis
Black Legged Deer Tick is the primary vector of what disease - ANS Spirochete (Lyme disease)
Court ruling "____________ __________" usually involves cases where children are attracted to
application equipment and pesticide left unattended by applicators.* - ANS Attractive
Nuisance
Rats have a home range of ?* - ANS 100ft - 150ft
Mice have a home range of ? - ANS 10ft-30ft
The most successful solutions or methods for achieving a rat free environment?* - ANS Rat
Proofing
Describe droppings of Norway rat* - ANS 3/4 inch capsule shape
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