TENNESSEE PESTICIDE APPLICATOR EXAM
CATEGORY 7 ACTUAL EXAM 2026
QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE ANSWERS
◉ What do adult and larvae beetles damage? Answer: Plant parts by
boring and chewing.
◉ What are aphids? Answer: Small soft bodied insects that suck sap
through tiny needle-like mouthparts.
◉ What parts of a plant do aphids feed on? Answer: "Stems,
terminals or undersides of leaves."
◉ What effects do aphids have of plants? Answer: Foliage curls or is
otherwise distorted.
◉ What do aphids produce? Answer: "Honeydew, a sweet liquid
which collects on the foliage where black sooty mold grows on it."
◉ How do you controll sooty mold? Answer: By controlling the
honeydew producing insect
,◉ What are mites closely related to? Answer: Ticks and spiders (not
actual insects)
◉ Mites are hard to see without what. Answer: Magnification
◉ Mites sometimes form what. Answer: Webs on the lower leaf
surface.
◉ How do mites damage leaves? Answer: By sucking sap from
leaves.
◉ What does damaged foilage look like? Answer: "Yellowish-white
stipples and foliage may turn off-green, yellow, or orange."
◉ What do lacebugs look like? Answer: "Small, broad, flat insects
with clear lace-like wings."
◉ What do adult and young lacebugs suck from plants? Answer: Sap
◉ What does lacebug damage look like? Answer: "Off colored
speckles, yellowing, and leaf spot."
◉ What other evidence does lacebugs leave behind? Answer: "Small,
black, varnish-like spots of excrement on the undersides of leaves."
,◉ What do scale and mealybugs insects both use to cover them.
Answer: They secrete a waxy protective substance.
◉ What are newly hatched scale insects called? Answer: Crawlers
◉ Crawlers move around on the what? Answer: Plant
◉ What kind of scale insects are securely fastened to the plant
surface. Answer: Mature Scale
◉ What does large numbers of scale form on plants? Answer: A
crust.
◉ What are larvae of some moths and beetles? Answer: Borers
◉ Where do borers do most of ther damage? Answer: In living cells
just under the bark.
◉ What tyeps of plants are more susceptible be attacked? Answer:
unhealthy plants
, ◉ "Name some insects that damage leaves, buds, fruits, and flowers."
Answer: "Caterpillers, beetles, leafminers, aphids, mites, and lace
bugs"
◉ "Name some insect pest that attack trunks, stems, or branches."
Answer: Scale insects and mealybugs
◉ What are larvar of hard shelled beetles or weevils? Answer: Grubs
◉ What color are gubs usually? Answer: White with brown heads.
◉ Some grubs have __________ and some are legless. Answer: Legs
◉ What do grubs eat? Answer: Plant roots
◉ What effect does grub damage have on plants? Answer: It
weakens them or kills them.
◉ What are root borers? Answer: Larvae of moths and beetles.
◉ What do larvae of moths and beetles look like? Answer: They are
shaped like grubs and caterpillars and whitish in colar.
CATEGORY 7 ACTUAL EXAM 2026
QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE ANSWERS
◉ What do adult and larvae beetles damage? Answer: Plant parts by
boring and chewing.
◉ What are aphids? Answer: Small soft bodied insects that suck sap
through tiny needle-like mouthparts.
◉ What parts of a plant do aphids feed on? Answer: "Stems,
terminals or undersides of leaves."
◉ What effects do aphids have of plants? Answer: Foliage curls or is
otherwise distorted.
◉ What do aphids produce? Answer: "Honeydew, a sweet liquid
which collects on the foliage where black sooty mold grows on it."
◉ How do you controll sooty mold? Answer: By controlling the
honeydew producing insect
,◉ What are mites closely related to? Answer: Ticks and spiders (not
actual insects)
◉ Mites are hard to see without what. Answer: Magnification
◉ Mites sometimes form what. Answer: Webs on the lower leaf
surface.
◉ How do mites damage leaves? Answer: By sucking sap from
leaves.
◉ What does damaged foilage look like? Answer: "Yellowish-white
stipples and foliage may turn off-green, yellow, or orange."
◉ What do lacebugs look like? Answer: "Small, broad, flat insects
with clear lace-like wings."
◉ What do adult and young lacebugs suck from plants? Answer: Sap
◉ What does lacebug damage look like? Answer: "Off colored
speckles, yellowing, and leaf spot."
◉ What other evidence does lacebugs leave behind? Answer: "Small,
black, varnish-like spots of excrement on the undersides of leaves."
,◉ What do scale and mealybugs insects both use to cover them.
Answer: They secrete a waxy protective substance.
◉ What are newly hatched scale insects called? Answer: Crawlers
◉ Crawlers move around on the what? Answer: Plant
◉ What kind of scale insects are securely fastened to the plant
surface. Answer: Mature Scale
◉ What does large numbers of scale form on plants? Answer: A
crust.
◉ What are larvae of some moths and beetles? Answer: Borers
◉ Where do borers do most of ther damage? Answer: In living cells
just under the bark.
◉ What tyeps of plants are more susceptible be attacked? Answer:
unhealthy plants
, ◉ "Name some insects that damage leaves, buds, fruits, and flowers."
Answer: "Caterpillers, beetles, leafminers, aphids, mites, and lace
bugs"
◉ "Name some insect pest that attack trunks, stems, or branches."
Answer: Scale insects and mealybugs
◉ What are larvar of hard shelled beetles or weevils? Answer: Grubs
◉ What color are gubs usually? Answer: White with brown heads.
◉ Some grubs have __________ and some are legless. Answer: Legs
◉ What do grubs eat? Answer: Plant roots
◉ What effect does grub damage have on plants? Answer: It
weakens them or kills them.
◉ What are root borers? Answer: Larvae of moths and beetles.
◉ What do larvae of moths and beetles look like? Answer: They are
shaped like grubs and caterpillars and whitish in colar.
