General Structural Pest Control Exam
Questions With All Correct Answers
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Define a pest in simple terms - Answers - ✔✔any unwanted organism
Pest populations are part of an ecosystem where following elements are included in an
ecosystem? - Answers - ✔✔A community and biological and physical support.
In infested apartments, pest infestations are evenly distributed - Answers - ✔✔False
In a simple sequence of methods, which of the following is the first method or activity a
pest technician should do? - Answers - ✔✔Inspection
Which of the following are not integrated pest management, IPM components, goals or
activities? - Answers - ✔✔Preventative spring, total pest elimination
The integrated pest management approach to pest control, more than other
approaches, emphasizes: - Answers - ✔✔The reduction of pest to a tolerable number
New sprayers are well calibrated until they have been used one season - Answers -
✔✔False
Hand held sprayers can be calibrated, if the following is known: - Answers -
✔✔Pressure used, amount of liquid used, time elapsed per liquid used, area sprayed
per amount of liquid used
Fogging fills a room volume, including cracks, crevices, and cabinets - Answers -
✔✔False
High pressure must be maintained in handheld sprayer is to be effective - Answers -
✔✔False
If a sprayer malfunctions, - Answers - ✔✔Release pressure and remove it to a repair
area
Equipment safety is best maintained by, - Answers - ✔✔Daily rinsing, daily hose
inspection, scheduled cleaning
What are the four principal classes of the phylum Arthropoda? - Answers -
✔✔Arachnida, Diploda, Chilopoda, Insecta
, What are the three basic types of insect development? - Answers - ✔✔Simple
metamophosis, gradual metamorphosis, complete metamorphosis.
The cockroach that requires the most control effort is the, - Answers - ✔✔German
American coackroaches like an environment that is - Answers - ✔✔Very warm, moist
Oriental cockroach population consists of mostly _______ in the winter - Answers -
✔✔Adults
Cockroaches need ______ to be successful - Answers - ✔✔Food, moisture, and
harborage
Oriental cockroaches prefer a ______ environment - Answers - ✔✔Moist
Brown banded cockroaches, prefer a ________ environment - Answers - ✔✔Very warm
German cockroaches have, - Answers - ✔✔Two stripes on their thorax
True or False, Ants and termites are closely related social insects - Answers - ✔✔False
The ant species that almost always has its colony inside is, - Answers - ✔✔Paroah ant
Carpenter ants make galleries in wood, which is also one of their principal foods -
Answers - ✔✔False
The ant caste system consists of, - Answers - ✔✔Male and female, reproductive and
workers
Ants found inside of a structure always come from a colony that is located inside -
Answers - ✔✔False
Ants forage for _____ to sustain themselves and the colony - Answers - ✔✔Honeydew,
Greases, sugars and insects.
Some common stored product pest that attack, whole grains, and chew through the
seed coat are, - Answers - ✔✔Rice and granary weevils
Pharamones are used in, - Answers - ✔✔Traps
Which of the following is not commonly a food of stored products pests? - Answers -
✔✔Paper products
Questions With All Correct Answers
(Study Resources 100% REVISION)
Define a pest in simple terms - Answers - ✔✔any unwanted organism
Pest populations are part of an ecosystem where following elements are included in an
ecosystem? - Answers - ✔✔A community and biological and physical support.
In infested apartments, pest infestations are evenly distributed - Answers - ✔✔False
In a simple sequence of methods, which of the following is the first method or activity a
pest technician should do? - Answers - ✔✔Inspection
Which of the following are not integrated pest management, IPM components, goals or
activities? - Answers - ✔✔Preventative spring, total pest elimination
The integrated pest management approach to pest control, more than other
approaches, emphasizes: - Answers - ✔✔The reduction of pest to a tolerable number
New sprayers are well calibrated until they have been used one season - Answers -
✔✔False
Hand held sprayers can be calibrated, if the following is known: - Answers -
✔✔Pressure used, amount of liquid used, time elapsed per liquid used, area sprayed
per amount of liquid used
Fogging fills a room volume, including cracks, crevices, and cabinets - Answers -
✔✔False
High pressure must be maintained in handheld sprayer is to be effective - Answers -
✔✔False
If a sprayer malfunctions, - Answers - ✔✔Release pressure and remove it to a repair
area
Equipment safety is best maintained by, - Answers - ✔✔Daily rinsing, daily hose
inspection, scheduled cleaning
What are the four principal classes of the phylum Arthropoda? - Answers -
✔✔Arachnida, Diploda, Chilopoda, Insecta
, What are the three basic types of insect development? - Answers - ✔✔Simple
metamophosis, gradual metamorphosis, complete metamorphosis.
The cockroach that requires the most control effort is the, - Answers - ✔✔German
American coackroaches like an environment that is - Answers - ✔✔Very warm, moist
Oriental cockroach population consists of mostly _______ in the winter - Answers -
✔✔Adults
Cockroaches need ______ to be successful - Answers - ✔✔Food, moisture, and
harborage
Oriental cockroaches prefer a ______ environment - Answers - ✔✔Moist
Brown banded cockroaches, prefer a ________ environment - Answers - ✔✔Very warm
German cockroaches have, - Answers - ✔✔Two stripes on their thorax
True or False, Ants and termites are closely related social insects - Answers - ✔✔False
The ant species that almost always has its colony inside is, - Answers - ✔✔Paroah ant
Carpenter ants make galleries in wood, which is also one of their principal foods -
Answers - ✔✔False
The ant caste system consists of, - Answers - ✔✔Male and female, reproductive and
workers
Ants found inside of a structure always come from a colony that is located inside -
Answers - ✔✔False
Ants forage for _____ to sustain themselves and the colony - Answers - ✔✔Honeydew,
Greases, sugars and insects.
Some common stored product pest that attack, whole grains, and chew through the
seed coat are, - Answers - ✔✔Rice and granary weevils
Pharamones are used in, - Answers - ✔✔Traps
Which of the following is not commonly a food of stored products pests? - Answers -
✔✔Paper products
