2025-2026 SERIES
TEXAS CERTIFIED APPLICATOR EXAM PREP
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS |
GRADED AND THE LATEST SERIES
What is usually the cause when liquid flows into pump of a compressed sprayer
and shoots out the handle?**
Ans: Worn Check Valve
Question: Ants with one node?*
Ans: Carpenter, crazy, Rasberry Crazy, False Honey, Rover, Argentine, Odorous,
ghost, pyramid
Question: Ants with 2 nodes?*
Ans: Fire, Thief, Pavement, Acrobat, Pharaoh, Little black, Harvester, Big
Headed, Leaf cutter, Acacia, elongated twig
Question: Adult dull gray with 4 stripes on thorax?**
Ans: House fly
Question: 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
Question: Four wings 3/4 inch wing spread fore wings are grey near body
reddish at tips*
, 2025-2026 SERIES
Ans: Indian meal moths
Question: Species of wasp that build home above and below ground*
Ans: Yellow jacket
Question: To reduce contact with scorpions eliminate...?*
Ans: Bricks, stones, wood, trash and other potential harborage points.
Question: Insect 3/4 inch yellowish brown with powerful hind legs.*
Ans: The house/ field cricket
Question: Ants pose particular risk in hospitals because?**
Ans: Carry diseases and organisms on legs and body
Question: The four distinct stages of mosquitoes.*
Ans: Egg, larva, pupa and adult
Question: Species of insect primary vector of yellow fever and dengue?**
Ans: Aedes aegypti or Asian Tiger mosquitoes
Question: Lone star tick (amblyomma) primary vector of what diseases?
Ans: Mono cystic Ehrilichiosis and Southern Tick assisted rash illness
, 2025-2026 SERIES
Question: American Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis) is the primary vector of
what diseases?
Ans: Rocky Mountain fever and tuleremia anaplasmosis
Question: Black Legged Deer Tick is the primary vector of what disease
Ans: Spirochete (Lyme disease)
Question: Court ruling "____________ __________" usually involves cases
where children are attracted to application equipment and pesticide left
unattended by applicators.*
Ans: Attractive Nuisance
Question: Rats have a home range of ?*
Ans: 100ft - 150ft
Question: Mice have a home range of ?
Ans: 10ft-30ft
Question: The most successful solutions or methods for achieving a rat free
environment?*
Ans: Rat Proofing
Question: Describe droppings of Norway rat*
TEXAS CERTIFIED APPLICATOR EXAM PREP
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS |
GRADED AND THE LATEST SERIES
What is usually the cause when liquid flows into pump of a compressed sprayer
and shoots out the handle?**
Ans: Worn Check Valve
Question: Ants with one node?*
Ans: Carpenter, crazy, Rasberry Crazy, False Honey, Rover, Argentine, Odorous,
ghost, pyramid
Question: Ants with 2 nodes?*
Ans: Fire, Thief, Pavement, Acrobat, Pharaoh, Little black, Harvester, Big
Headed, Leaf cutter, Acacia, elongated twig
Question: Adult dull gray with 4 stripes on thorax?**
Ans: House fly
Question: 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
Question: Four wings 3/4 inch wing spread fore wings are grey near body
reddish at tips*
, 2025-2026 SERIES
Ans: Indian meal moths
Question: Species of wasp that build home above and below ground*
Ans: Yellow jacket
Question: To reduce contact with scorpions eliminate...?*
Ans: Bricks, stones, wood, trash and other potential harborage points.
Question: Insect 3/4 inch yellowish brown with powerful hind legs.*
Ans: The house/ field cricket
Question: Ants pose particular risk in hospitals because?**
Ans: Carry diseases and organisms on legs and body
Question: The four distinct stages of mosquitoes.*
Ans: Egg, larva, pupa and adult
Question: Species of insect primary vector of yellow fever and dengue?**
Ans: Aedes aegypti or Asian Tiger mosquitoes
Question: Lone star tick (amblyomma) primary vector of what diseases?
Ans: Mono cystic Ehrilichiosis and Southern Tick assisted rash illness
, 2025-2026 SERIES
Question: American Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis) is the primary vector of
what diseases?
Ans: Rocky Mountain fever and tuleremia anaplasmosis
Question: Black Legged Deer Tick is the primary vector of what disease
Ans: Spirochete (Lyme disease)
Question: Court ruling "____________ __________" usually involves cases
where children are attracted to application equipment and pesticide left
unattended by applicators.*
Ans: Attractive Nuisance
Question: Rats have a home range of ?*
Ans: 100ft - 150ft
Question: Mice have a home range of ?
Ans: 10ft-30ft
Question: The most successful solutions or methods for achieving a rat free
environment?*
Ans: Rat Proofing
Question: Describe droppings of Norway rat*
