Oklahoma Service Tech Exam with verified detailed answers

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How can pest identification help you develop a good pest control strategy? -
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✔✔Identification of the pest allows you to determine basic information about the pest, || || || || || || || || || || || || ||




including its life cycle and the time that it is most susceptible to being controlled.
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Define "intergrated pest managment" (IPM) and list several posible control tactics that may
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be used in an IPM strategy. - ✔✔Integrated pest management is the combining of
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appropeiate pest and their damage to an acceptable level. Pest control tactics may include:
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host resistance, biological control, cultural control, mechanical control, sanitiation, and
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chemical (pesticide) control. || ||




You applied a pesticide, but it did not control the pest. Name three resons why yopur
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control effort might hasve failed. - ✔✔The failure of the pesticide to control the pest might
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have been caused by pest resistance, choosing the wrong pesticide, misidentifying the pest,
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applying the wrong amount, or applying thye pesticide incorrectly.
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What can you do to keep the pests you are trying to control from becoming resistant to the
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pesticides you use? - ✔✔Pest resistance can be reduced by using integrated pest
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management and rotating the types of pesticides used. || || || || || || ||




Name four of the six available methods to control pests when natural controls are not
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sufficient. - ✔✔The six pest control methods include: host resistance, biological control,
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cultural control, mechanical control, sanitation, and chemical control.
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Name the four factors that affect pesticide ise outdoors. - ✔✔Pestiucide use outdoors is
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affected by soil factors, surface moisture, humidity and temperature, and wind.
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, What is the best control method for controlling plant diseases? - ✔✔At present, prevention
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is the only plant disease control measure. Once a palnt is infected, few control methods are
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effective, including pesticides. || ||




Name four forms of mechanical vertebrate pest control. - ✔✔Traps, barriers, gunning,
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attractants, and repellents are all forms of mechanical vertebrate pest control. || || || || || || || || || ||




Explain the differences between the terms "label" and "labeling." - ✔✔The label is the
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information printed on or attached to the pesticide container. Labeling includes the label || || || || || || || || || || || || ||




itseld, plus all other information your receive from the meanufacturer about the product
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when you buy it. || || ||




What do the words "Restricted Use Pesticides" tell you about the pesticide product? -
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✔✔"Restricted Ise Pesticide" means that hte product has been shown to be likely to harm || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||




people or the environment if it is not used correctly. It may be purchased and used only by
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certified applicators and those under their direct sypervision.
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Explain the differences between chemical name, common name, and brand name. Which of
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these terms should be used to most accurately identify a pesticide product? - ✔✔The
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chemical name is a complex name that identifies the chemical components and structures
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of the pesticide. A common name is a shorter name that EPA recognizes as a substitute for
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the chemical name of a product. A brand name is a name -usually a trademark - used by a
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chemical company to identify a pesticide product. The common name (or the chemical
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name, if no common name is given) is the most accurate and useful way to identify a
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pesticide product. ||




Name and explain the meaning of the single word and symbols you may see on a pesticide
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product. - ✔✔"Caution" indicates that the pesticide product is slightly toxic or relatively
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non-toxic. "Warning" indicates that the pesticide product is moderately toxic. "Danger"
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indicates that the pesticide product is highly toxic. "Poison" and the skull and crossbones
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indicate that the pesticide product is highly toxic as a poison, rather than skin or eye
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irritant.