ARKANSAS APPLICATOR STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Genetic Control - ✔✔Selected or bred to resists specific pests
✔✔Mechanical Control - ✔✔Kill a pest directly or make its environmental unsuitable
✔✔Examples of Mechanical Control - ✔✔Traps, mulches, fences, cloth mesh, etc.
✔✔Quarantine - ✔✔Pest control process designed to prevent entry of certain pests into
pest-free areas
✔✔Eradication - ✔✔Elimination of a pest from a designated area
✔✔Integrated Pest Management - ✔✔Strategy that utilizes a wide range of pest control
tactics to prevent pests from reaching economically or aesthetically damaging levels
with the least risk to the environment
✔✔Why Practice IPM (5) - ✔✔1. Balanced ecosystem.
2. Pesticides can be ineffective.
3. Can save money.
4. Promotes healthy environment.
5. Maintains good public image.
✔✔5 Components of IPM - ✔✔1. Identify the pest and understand its biology
2. Monitor the pest to be managed
3. Develop pest management goal
4. Implement program
5. Record and evaluate results
✔✔Key Pests - ✔✔May cause major damage on regular basis unless they are
controlled
✔✔Secondary Pest - ✔✔Become pests when key pests are controlled or absent
✔✔Occasional Pest - ✔✔Sporadically become problematic due to life cycles,
environmental influences, or as a result of human activities
✔✔Economic Threshold - ✔✔Pest population density at which control measures are
needed to prevent the pest from reaching the economic injury level
✔✔Economic Injury Level - ✔✔Pest population density that causes losses equal to the
cost of control measures
,✔✔Preplant/Preemergence Herbicide - ✔✔Targets weed seeds
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Using barrier to prevent pests from getting into an area is an example of which type of
pest management method?
A. Biological
B. Mechanical
C. Genetic - ✔✔B. Mechanical
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Making use of plant varieties that are naturally resistant to insect feeding is an example
of which type of pest management method?
A. Biological
B. Genetic
C. Regulatory - ✔✔B. Genetic
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Which statement about biological control methods is true?
A. Modifying the environment to enhance natural enemies is recommended in biological
control.
B. Biological control involves importing exotic pests to control natural enemies.
C. Using several cultural practices and a wide variety of pesticides works best in
biological control. - ✔✔A. Modifying the environment to enhance natural enemies is
recommended in biological control.
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Sealing cracks and crevices and small openings in buildings is an example of which
type of pest management method?
A. Physical
B. Genetic
C. Biological - ✔✔A. Physical
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Which statement about cultural control practices is true?
A. They reduce pest establishment.
B. They use naturally derived and/or synthesized chemicals to control pests
C. They involve the release of parasites and predators found in foreign countries. -
✔✔A. They reduce pest establishment.
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Monitoring pests at airports and ocean ports that pose a serious threat to public health
or widespread damage to crops or animals is an example of which type of pest
management method?
A. Regulatory
B. Genetic
, C. Biological - ✔✔A. Regulatory
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Which statement about pest management strategies is true?
A. The goal is to prevent pests from reaching damaging levels.
B. Eradication is never the goal of an IPM program.
C. Nonchemical methods are short-term solutions to control pests. - ✔✔A. The goal is
to prevent pests from reaching damaging levels.
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Which would be considered a preventative pest management strategy?
A. Planting weed- and disease-free seed on an athletic field.
B. Releasing natural enemies to help reduce pest populations.
C. Removing a pest that is a public health concern from an area. - ✔✔A. Planting weed-
and disease-free seed on an athletic field.
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Which statement about action thresholds is true?
A. The IPM technician needs to implement control measures below the action threshold
level.
B. The action threshold for a pest may be set at zero pest population density.
C. In an urban landscape, action thresholds are usually more related to economics than
aesthetics. - ✔✔B. The action threshold for a pest may be set at zero pest population
density.
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Which would increase the likelihood of pesticide resistance?
A. An insect that has one generation per year.
B. Continual use of pesticides from the same chemical class.
C. Applying a pesticide that has little or not residual effect. - ✔✔B. Continual use of
pesticides from the same chemical class.
✔✔Unclassified Pesticide - ✔✔Typically have lower toxicity than RUP's and so are less
likely to harm environment or humans. Does not require special permitting.
✔✔Restricted-use Pesticide - ✔✔Can only be sold to certified applicators
✔✔Tolerance - ✔✔Maximum residue limit, the amount of pesticide residue that may
legally remain on or in treated crops and animals to be sold for food or feed
✔✔Endangered Species Act - ✔✔Administered by the the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service that makes it illegal to kill, harm, or collect endangered or threatened wildlife or
fish, or to remove endangered or threatened plants from areas under federal jurisdiction
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Genetic Control - ✔✔Selected or bred to resists specific pests
✔✔Mechanical Control - ✔✔Kill a pest directly or make its environmental unsuitable
✔✔Examples of Mechanical Control - ✔✔Traps, mulches, fences, cloth mesh, etc.
✔✔Quarantine - ✔✔Pest control process designed to prevent entry of certain pests into
pest-free areas
✔✔Eradication - ✔✔Elimination of a pest from a designated area
✔✔Integrated Pest Management - ✔✔Strategy that utilizes a wide range of pest control
tactics to prevent pests from reaching economically or aesthetically damaging levels
with the least risk to the environment
✔✔Why Practice IPM (5) - ✔✔1. Balanced ecosystem.
2. Pesticides can be ineffective.
3. Can save money.
4. Promotes healthy environment.
5. Maintains good public image.
✔✔5 Components of IPM - ✔✔1. Identify the pest and understand its biology
2. Monitor the pest to be managed
3. Develop pest management goal
4. Implement program
5. Record and evaluate results
✔✔Key Pests - ✔✔May cause major damage on regular basis unless they are
controlled
✔✔Secondary Pest - ✔✔Become pests when key pests are controlled or absent
✔✔Occasional Pest - ✔✔Sporadically become problematic due to life cycles,
environmental influences, or as a result of human activities
✔✔Economic Threshold - ✔✔Pest population density at which control measures are
needed to prevent the pest from reaching the economic injury level
✔✔Economic Injury Level - ✔✔Pest population density that causes losses equal to the
cost of control measures
,✔✔Preplant/Preemergence Herbicide - ✔✔Targets weed seeds
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Using barrier to prevent pests from getting into an area is an example of which type of
pest management method?
A. Biological
B. Mechanical
C. Genetic - ✔✔B. Mechanical
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Making use of plant varieties that are naturally resistant to insect feeding is an example
of which type of pest management method?
A. Biological
B. Genetic
C. Regulatory - ✔✔B. Genetic
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Which statement about biological control methods is true?
A. Modifying the environment to enhance natural enemies is recommended in biological
control.
B. Biological control involves importing exotic pests to control natural enemies.
C. Using several cultural practices and a wide variety of pesticides works best in
biological control. - ✔✔A. Modifying the environment to enhance natural enemies is
recommended in biological control.
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Sealing cracks and crevices and small openings in buildings is an example of which
type of pest management method?
A. Physical
B. Genetic
C. Biological - ✔✔A. Physical
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Which statement about cultural control practices is true?
A. They reduce pest establishment.
B. They use naturally derived and/or synthesized chemicals to control pests
C. They involve the release of parasites and predators found in foreign countries. -
✔✔A. They reduce pest establishment.
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Monitoring pests at airports and ocean ports that pose a serious threat to public health
or widespread damage to crops or animals is an example of which type of pest
management method?
A. Regulatory
B. Genetic
, C. Biological - ✔✔A. Regulatory
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Which statement about pest management strategies is true?
A. The goal is to prevent pests from reaching damaging levels.
B. Eradication is never the goal of an IPM program.
C. Nonchemical methods are short-term solutions to control pests. - ✔✔A. The goal is
to prevent pests from reaching damaging levels.
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Which would be considered a preventative pest management strategy?
A. Planting weed- and disease-free seed on an athletic field.
B. Releasing natural enemies to help reduce pest populations.
C. Removing a pest that is a public health concern from an area. - ✔✔A. Planting weed-
and disease-free seed on an athletic field.
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Which statement about action thresholds is true?
A. The IPM technician needs to implement control measures below the action threshold
level.
B. The action threshold for a pest may be set at zero pest population density.
C. In an urban landscape, action thresholds are usually more related to economics than
aesthetics. - ✔✔B. The action threshold for a pest may be set at zero pest population
density.
✔✔Multiple Choice:
Which would increase the likelihood of pesticide resistance?
A. An insect that has one generation per year.
B. Continual use of pesticides from the same chemical class.
C. Applying a pesticide that has little or not residual effect. - ✔✔B. Continual use of
pesticides from the same chemical class.
✔✔Unclassified Pesticide - ✔✔Typically have lower toxicity than RUP's and so are less
likely to harm environment or humans. Does not require special permitting.
✔✔Restricted-use Pesticide - ✔✔Can only be sold to certified applicators
✔✔Tolerance - ✔✔Maximum residue limit, the amount of pesticide residue that may
legally remain on or in treated crops and animals to be sold for food or feed
✔✔Endangered Species Act - ✔✔Administered by the the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service that makes it illegal to kill, harm, or collect endangered or threatened wildlife or
fish, or to remove endangered or threatened plants from areas under federal jurisdiction
