Landscape Maintenance QAL Exam with verified detailed || || || || || || ||
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Where does a maintenance gardener spray? - ✔✔On or around ornamental plants,
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turf, fruit trees, shrubs, and small fruits and berries. Areas typically include homes,
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businesses, cemeteries, parks, malls and places with indoor plants. Work often around
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human activities. ||
Why does a maintenance gardener spray? - ✔✔To control a pest so that it does not
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compete with other plants for nutrition, and for aesthetics.
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What is a weed? - ✔✔A weed is a plant that is not desired in a landscape. Weeds also
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compete with desired plants for water, nutrition, and space.
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What is a pest? - ✔✔A pest is an organism that can cause problems in various ways
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including: competing with people for food and fiber; transmitting diseases between
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plants, damaging plants, and damaging structures
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Why is it important to identify a pest? - ✔✔Misidentification and lack of information
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about a pest could cause you to choose the wrong control method or apply the control
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at the wrong time.
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True or False? Pesticide labels refer to most pests by their common names. - ✔✔True,
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like housefly, roof rat, american cockroach
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Name four stages of insect growth changes. - ✔✔Eggs, larval, pupal, and adult
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What stage of growth are weeds most readily controlled? - ✔✔Seedling Stage
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Where does a maintenance gardener spray? - ✔✔On or around ornamental plants,
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turf, fruit trees, shrubs, and small fruits and berries. Areas typically include homes,
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businesses, cemeteries, parks, malls and places with indoor plants. Work often around
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human activities. ||
Why does a maintenance gardener spray? - ✔✔To control a pest so that it does not
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compete with other plants for nutrition, and for aesthetics.
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What is a weed? - ✔✔A weed is a plant that is not desired in a landscape. Weeds also
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compete with desired plants for water, nutrition, and space.
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What is a pest? - ✔✔A pest is an organism that can cause problems in various ways
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including: competing with people for food and fiber; transmitting diseases between
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plants, damaging plants, and damaging structures
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Why is it important to identify a pest? - ✔✔Misidentification and lack of information
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about a pest could cause you to choose the wrong control method or apply the control
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at the wrong time.
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True or False? Pesticide labels refer to most pests by their common names. - ✔✔True,
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like housefly, roof rat, american cockroach
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Name four stages of insect growth changes. - ✔✔Eggs, larval, pupal, and adult
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What stage of growth are weeds most readily controlled? - ✔✔Seedling Stage
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