VERTEBRATE PEST CONTROL EXAM-ACTUAL EXAM -LATEST UPDATE 2025 | COMPLETE
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED AND VERIFIED ANSWERS|MOSTLY TESTED QUESTIONS-
RATED 100% CORRECT!! GUARANTEED PASS!! ALREADY GRADED A+
1. What are four reasons for pest control to prevent damage?: 1. Damage to agricultural & horticultural crops.
2. Damage to forestry nurseries & plantations.
3. Damage to ecosystems.
4. Damage to property.
2. What are five reasons for pest control to prevent risk?: 1. Risk of predation of livestock animals & farmed fish. 2.
Risk of prediation of game animals.
3. Risk of transmission of specific diseases to livestock
4. Risk of zoonotic diseases spreading to man.
5. Risk of overpopulation and emaciation in the species.
3. What is the reason for pest control to prevent competition?: Competition with livestock for feed.
4. What is the reason for pest control to prevent consumption?: Consumption & contamination of stored feedstuffs.
5. True or False, pest control can be used to prevent animal disease in populations.: True
6. What are the two types of hosts that cause animal disease in a population?: 1. Maintenance Host
2. Spill Over Host
7. What type of host is the main vector for a disease in an animal environment?: Maintenance Host
8. What type of host is not the main vector for a disease, but becomes a vector for the disease once it reaches a certain
threshold?: Spill Over Host 9. What bacteria causes Bovine Tuberculosis (TB)?: Mycobacterium bovis 10. What two
animals are hosts for Mycobacterium bovis?: 1. Brush Tail Possums
2. Badgers
11. What parasite causes Alveolar Hydatid Disease?: Echinococcus multiolocularis
,12. What animals are hosts for Echinoccus multiolocularis?: Urban Foxes
13. What virus causes Hemorrhagic Fever with renal syndromes?: Hantavirus
14. What animals are hosts for Hantavirus?: Rats
15. What bacteria cause Leptospirosis?: Leptospira spp.
16. What animals are hosts for Leptospira spp.?: Rats
17. What virus causes Avian Influenza?: Influenza A H5N1
18. What animals are hosts for Influenza A H5N1?: Birds
19. What parasite causes Toxoplasmosis?: Toxoplasma gondii
20. What animals are hosts for Toxoplasma gondii?: Feral Cats
21 What virus causes Lassa Fever?: Arenaviridae virus
22. What animal is a host for Arenaviridae virus?: Mice
23. What are the three key components to wildlife control programs?: 1. Setting clearly defined objectives.
2. Deciding how to achieve those objectives (control strategies).
3. Monitoring the outcome of a plan (control programs).
24. True or False, wildlife control programs should have transparent and defensible goals even when outcomes are
uncertain.: True
25. What component of wildlife control program includes the process of determining the optimum or tolerable pest
population density?: Setting Objectives 26. What are the two main types of animal control strategies?: 1. Damage Control
2. Pest Control
27. What type of animal control strategy is generally non-lethal?: Damage Control
28. What are the three main types of damage control?: 1. Repellents 2. Deterrents
3. Exclusion Devices
, 29. What are two types noise emitters?: 1. Bird Scarer Guns
2. Ultrasonic Alarms
30. What is a type of visual scarers?: Scarecrows
31. What is a type of chemical repellent?: Copper Acetate
32. What is a type of habitat removal?: Roost Removal
33. What are two types of exclusion?: 1. Electric Fencing
2. Vermin-Proof Doorways
34. What is a type of feed compensation?: Encouraging Competitors
35. What is the largest form of damage control?: Dog Fence
36. Where does the dog fence span in Australia?: New Wales to Queensland 37. What animal does the dog fence prevent
from entering into New South
Wales?: Dingo
38. What animal does the dog fence protect from dingoes in New South
Wales?: Sheep
39. What is the main consequence of the dog fence?: Increase in Pests
40. What are two pest populations that have increased due to the dog fence?: 1. Cats
2. Foxes
41. What type of animal control strategy is generally lethal?: Pest Control 42. What are the six pest controls that are
used in the United Kingdom?: 1. Toxicants
2. Traps & Snares
3. Introduced Disease
4. Introducted predators
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED AND VERIFIED ANSWERS|MOSTLY TESTED QUESTIONS-
RATED 100% CORRECT!! GUARANTEED PASS!! ALREADY GRADED A+
1. What are four reasons for pest control to prevent damage?: 1. Damage to agricultural & horticultural crops.
2. Damage to forestry nurseries & plantations.
3. Damage to ecosystems.
4. Damage to property.
2. What are five reasons for pest control to prevent risk?: 1. Risk of predation of livestock animals & farmed fish. 2.
Risk of prediation of game animals.
3. Risk of transmission of specific diseases to livestock
4. Risk of zoonotic diseases spreading to man.
5. Risk of overpopulation and emaciation in the species.
3. What is the reason for pest control to prevent competition?: Competition with livestock for feed.
4. What is the reason for pest control to prevent consumption?: Consumption & contamination of stored feedstuffs.
5. True or False, pest control can be used to prevent animal disease in populations.: True
6. What are the two types of hosts that cause animal disease in a population?: 1. Maintenance Host
2. Spill Over Host
7. What type of host is the main vector for a disease in an animal environment?: Maintenance Host
8. What type of host is not the main vector for a disease, but becomes a vector for the disease once it reaches a certain
threshold?: Spill Over Host 9. What bacteria causes Bovine Tuberculosis (TB)?: Mycobacterium bovis 10. What two
animals are hosts for Mycobacterium bovis?: 1. Brush Tail Possums
2. Badgers
11. What parasite causes Alveolar Hydatid Disease?: Echinococcus multiolocularis
,12. What animals are hosts for Echinoccus multiolocularis?: Urban Foxes
13. What virus causes Hemorrhagic Fever with renal syndromes?: Hantavirus
14. What animals are hosts for Hantavirus?: Rats
15. What bacteria cause Leptospirosis?: Leptospira spp.
16. What animals are hosts for Leptospira spp.?: Rats
17. What virus causes Avian Influenza?: Influenza A H5N1
18. What animals are hosts for Influenza A H5N1?: Birds
19. What parasite causes Toxoplasmosis?: Toxoplasma gondii
20. What animals are hosts for Toxoplasma gondii?: Feral Cats
21 What virus causes Lassa Fever?: Arenaviridae virus
22. What animal is a host for Arenaviridae virus?: Mice
23. What are the three key components to wildlife control programs?: 1. Setting clearly defined objectives.
2. Deciding how to achieve those objectives (control strategies).
3. Monitoring the outcome of a plan (control programs).
24. True or False, wildlife control programs should have transparent and defensible goals even when outcomes are
uncertain.: True
25. What component of wildlife control program includes the process of determining the optimum or tolerable pest
population density?: Setting Objectives 26. What are the two main types of animal control strategies?: 1. Damage Control
2. Pest Control
27. What type of animal control strategy is generally non-lethal?: Damage Control
28. What are the three main types of damage control?: 1. Repellents 2. Deterrents
3. Exclusion Devices
, 29. What are two types noise emitters?: 1. Bird Scarer Guns
2. Ultrasonic Alarms
30. What is a type of visual scarers?: Scarecrows
31. What is a type of chemical repellent?: Copper Acetate
32. What is a type of habitat removal?: Roost Removal
33. What are two types of exclusion?: 1. Electric Fencing
2. Vermin-Proof Doorways
34. What is a type of feed compensation?: Encouraging Competitors
35. What is the largest form of damage control?: Dog Fence
36. Where does the dog fence span in Australia?: New Wales to Queensland 37. What animal does the dog fence prevent
from entering into New South
Wales?: Dingo
38. What animal does the dog fence protect from dingoes in New South
Wales?: Sheep
39. What is the main consequence of the dog fence?: Increase in Pests
40. What are two pest populations that have increased due to the dog fence?: 1. Cats
2. Foxes
41. What type of animal control strategy is generally lethal?: Pest Control 42. What are the six pest controls that are
used in the United Kingdom?: 1. Toxicants
2. Traps & Snares
3. Introduced Disease
4. Introducted predators
