MASSACHUSETTS PESTICIDE CORE EXAM 2026 TEST
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS SCORED A+
✔✔How long do the yard signs have to be in place after the application? - ✔✔72 hours
✔✔What notice do you need to schools, faculty, and parents when applying pesticides.
- ✔✔48 hour written notice
✔✔Who is responsible for notifying faculty and parents about the pesticide application?
- ✔✔Principal
✔✔Who is responsible for keeping records of pesticide applications at schools? -
✔✔School Admin
✔✔3 parts of an insect - ✔✔head, thorax, abdomen
✔✔EPA - ✔✔Responsible for ensuring pesticides meet new standards
✔✔Emulsifiable Concentrate (EC) - ✔✔A pesticide formulation produced by mixing an
active ingredient and an emulsifying agent in a suitable petroleum solvent. When
combined with water, a milky emulsion is usually formed.
✔✔Emulsion - ✔✔any mixture of two or more immiscible liquids in which one liquid is
dispersed in the other
✔✔Suspension - ✔✔A mixture in which particles can be seen and easily separated by
settling or filtration
✔✔Wettable Powders (WP) - ✔✔Are dry Finely ground formations that look like dusts
✔✔Soluble Powders (SP) - ✔✔A dry formulation that is mixed with water and dissolves
readily to form a true solution
✔✔Ready to use - ✔✔RTU
✔✔Invert emulsion - ✔✔a mixture in which water droplets are suspended in an oil
instead of oil droplets being suspended in water
✔✔Bait - ✔✔Contains an active ingredient mixed with food or another attractive
substance
✔✔Fumigants - ✔✔toxic gases that are used to kill pests
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS SCORED A+
✔✔How long do the yard signs have to be in place after the application? - ✔✔72 hours
✔✔What notice do you need to schools, faculty, and parents when applying pesticides.
- ✔✔48 hour written notice
✔✔Who is responsible for notifying faculty and parents about the pesticide application?
- ✔✔Principal
✔✔Who is responsible for keeping records of pesticide applications at schools? -
✔✔School Admin
✔✔3 parts of an insect - ✔✔head, thorax, abdomen
✔✔EPA - ✔✔Responsible for ensuring pesticides meet new standards
✔✔Emulsifiable Concentrate (EC) - ✔✔A pesticide formulation produced by mixing an
active ingredient and an emulsifying agent in a suitable petroleum solvent. When
combined with water, a milky emulsion is usually formed.
✔✔Emulsion - ✔✔any mixture of two or more immiscible liquids in which one liquid is
dispersed in the other
✔✔Suspension - ✔✔A mixture in which particles can be seen and easily separated by
settling or filtration
✔✔Wettable Powders (WP) - ✔✔Are dry Finely ground formations that look like dusts
✔✔Soluble Powders (SP) - ✔✔A dry formulation that is mixed with water and dissolves
readily to form a true solution
✔✔Ready to use - ✔✔RTU
✔✔Invert emulsion - ✔✔a mixture in which water droplets are suspended in an oil
instead of oil droplets being suspended in water
✔✔Bait - ✔✔Contains an active ingredient mixed with food or another attractive
substance
✔✔Fumigants - ✔✔toxic gases that are used to kill pests
