GENERAL STRUCTURAL PEST CONTROL 7A
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SOLUTIONS
• What is the series of events from egg to adult called? Answer:
Lifecycle
• What is metamorphosis? Answer: The change that must take place in
before the young insect matures into an adult is called Metamorphosis
• What Phylum do all insect-related animals belong to? Answer: All
insect-related animals such as mites, ticks, and spiders belong to a
phulum called the Arthropoda
• What are Arachnids? Answer: Spiders, Mites, scorpions, and ticks.
Most arthropod pests are insects or arachnids.
- four pairs of legs
- two body segments (abdomen and cephalothorax)
• Name the four control strategies used to attempt the control of
arthropods or rodents. Answer: 1. Resource Management/Environment
Manipulation
2. Prevention/Mechanical Barriers
,3. Biological Control
4. Chemical Control
• Resource Management/Environment Manipulation Answer:
Management of food, water, and shelter availability, and habitat
modification to minimize or eliminate pest is usually one of the most
effective methods for controlling pests.
• Prevention/Mechanical Barriers Answer: Barriers such as screens,
netting, and protective clothing all are mechanical means to protect
people from biting and nuisance insects.
• Biological Control Answer: The use of predators, parasites, and
pathogens (insect diseases) can be effective in controlling some pest
species, if the beneficial organisms can establish themselves or if a
population can be maintained.
• Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Answer: This concept uses a
combination of biological, environmental and chemical control methods
• IPM- How? Answer: Controlling pests by stressing non-chemical
methods is the goal of pest management programs
• IPM- Why? Answer: An IPM program seeks to maintain to maintain
pest populations below the level at which they cause problems.
,• IPM Answer: It is an alternative and improved approach to traditional
pest management. I uses information on the life cycles of pests and their
interactions with the environment, in combination with available pest
control methods, to manage pests by the most economical means with
the least possible damage to people, property, and the environment.
• IPM- Program Answer: Under an IPM program, spraying is used
ONLY when ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY
• What is the difference between winged ants and termite swarmers?
Answer: Thee key features can quickly identify winged ants:
1. A pinched waist
2. Elbowed antennae
3. Wings of different lengths
• Which ant species has a heart-shaped abdomen? Answer: Acrobat Ant
• Where do odorous house ants get their name? Answer: The odor they
give off when they are crushed, smells like rotten coconut
• What type of control is best for red imported fire ants? Answer:
Broadcast baiting followed by mound drenching
• What is "budding"? Answer: When pharaoh ants separate into multiple
colonies due to liquid insecticide treatment
, • Order Answer: Group of similar families
• Complete Metamorphosis Answer: Insect development consisting of
four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult
• Castes Answer: - ants in a colony are grouped into castes based off of
the tasks they perform.
- Castes consist of workers, queens and alates.
• Ant workers Answer: - Sterile females, and they make up the largest
cast in the ant colony
- The workers protect the nest against invaders, gather food, serve the
queen, and care for the young ants
• Ants (food) Answer: - Collected by foraging workers is passed mouth
to mouth among themselves and to other workers, larvae, and the queen.
- This process is the only means by which the queen and larvae of the
ant colony can obtain food
- This transfer of food is an important element in the design and
effectiveness of ant baits
• Alates Answer: Winged adult fertile males and females that leave
existing colonies to establish new ones
• Male ants Answer: - Found in colonies only during swarmer formation
2026 BUNDLED STUDY PACK WITH TESTED
QUESTIONS AND EXPERT VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS
• What is the series of events from egg to adult called? Answer:
Lifecycle
• What is metamorphosis? Answer: The change that must take place in
before the young insect matures into an adult is called Metamorphosis
• What Phylum do all insect-related animals belong to? Answer: All
insect-related animals such as mites, ticks, and spiders belong to a
phulum called the Arthropoda
• What are Arachnids? Answer: Spiders, Mites, scorpions, and ticks.
Most arthropod pests are insects or arachnids.
- four pairs of legs
- two body segments (abdomen and cephalothorax)
• Name the four control strategies used to attempt the control of
arthropods or rodents. Answer: 1. Resource Management/Environment
Manipulation
2. Prevention/Mechanical Barriers
,3. Biological Control
4. Chemical Control
• Resource Management/Environment Manipulation Answer:
Management of food, water, and shelter availability, and habitat
modification to minimize or eliminate pest is usually one of the most
effective methods for controlling pests.
• Prevention/Mechanical Barriers Answer: Barriers such as screens,
netting, and protective clothing all are mechanical means to protect
people from biting and nuisance insects.
• Biological Control Answer: The use of predators, parasites, and
pathogens (insect diseases) can be effective in controlling some pest
species, if the beneficial organisms can establish themselves or if a
population can be maintained.
• Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Answer: This concept uses a
combination of biological, environmental and chemical control methods
• IPM- How? Answer: Controlling pests by stressing non-chemical
methods is the goal of pest management programs
• IPM- Why? Answer: An IPM program seeks to maintain to maintain
pest populations below the level at which they cause problems.
,• IPM Answer: It is an alternative and improved approach to traditional
pest management. I uses information on the life cycles of pests and their
interactions with the environment, in combination with available pest
control methods, to manage pests by the most economical means with
the least possible damage to people, property, and the environment.
• IPM- Program Answer: Under an IPM program, spraying is used
ONLY when ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY
• What is the difference between winged ants and termite swarmers?
Answer: Thee key features can quickly identify winged ants:
1. A pinched waist
2. Elbowed antennae
3. Wings of different lengths
• Which ant species has a heart-shaped abdomen? Answer: Acrobat Ant
• Where do odorous house ants get their name? Answer: The odor they
give off when they are crushed, smells like rotten coconut
• What type of control is best for red imported fire ants? Answer:
Broadcast baiting followed by mound drenching
• What is "budding"? Answer: When pharaoh ants separate into multiple
colonies due to liquid insecticide treatment
, • Order Answer: Group of similar families
• Complete Metamorphosis Answer: Insect development consisting of
four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult
• Castes Answer: - ants in a colony are grouped into castes based off of
the tasks they perform.
- Castes consist of workers, queens and alates.
• Ant workers Answer: - Sterile females, and they make up the largest
cast in the ant colony
- The workers protect the nest against invaders, gather food, serve the
queen, and care for the young ants
• Ants (food) Answer: - Collected by foraging workers is passed mouth
to mouth among themselves and to other workers, larvae, and the queen.
- This process is the only means by which the queen and larvae of the
ant colony can obtain food
- This transfer of food is an important element in the design and
effectiveness of ant baits
• Alates Answer: Winged adult fertile males and females that leave
existing colonies to establish new ones
• Male ants Answer: - Found in colonies only during swarmer formation
