Texas Pest Control Category Practice Test with verified
|| || || || || || || ||
detailed answers ||
Oriental Cockroach - ✔✔A medium to large sized glossy dark brown to black
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
cockroach with wings shorter than the abdomen. || || || || || ||
Flour Beetles - ✔✔Insects that damage stored food by chewing in both the adult and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
larval stage. ||
Indian Meal Moth - ✔✔The adult insect that has wings and can fly
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
Red Flour Beetle - ✔✔The beetle that is elongated, flat, shiny reddish brown, about
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
1/8 inch long, can fly, and has three antennal segments enlarged abruptly into a club.
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Insects with complete metamorphosis go through four life stages. - ✔✔Egg, larvae,
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
pupae, adult ||
Infested flour shoes large amount of webbing with larvae actively feeding. Small,
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
reddish-gray moths are the Adult form. Larvae are not spotted. - ✔✔Indian Meal
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Moth
Ground Beetles prey on - ✔✔Other Insects
|| || || || || ||
When considering pest management of house flies and related species of flies, consider
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
chemical control only after you have established a sound program including. -
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
✔✔Sanitation & Exclusion || ||
, German Cockroaches & Asian cockroaches can be distinguished from one another by...
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
- ✔✔Habitat & flight
|| || || ||
T or F The granary weevil attacks grain before harvest and storage - ✔✔True
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
T or F Smoky brown cockroaches prefer an outside habitat but move indoors during
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
seasonal migration and adverse weather conditions.. - ✔✔True
|| || || || || || ||
T or F The larvae of the Angoumois grain moth fedd on flour - ✔✔False
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
T or F The larval stage of a fly is called a maggot - ✔✔True
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
T or F The larvae of the house fly develop in animal waste or rotting fruits and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
vegetables. - ✔✔True || ||
T or F Dermestid beetles can attack and destroy pantry materials, such as grain and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
flour, as well as on woolens, furs, and feathers. - ✔✔True
|| || || || || || || || || ||
What does the house dust mite feed on? - ✔✔Shed Skin Scales
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
House dust mites are linked to and often thought to be the cause of what disease? -
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
✔✔Asthma
Clover Mites Cause most of their damage by? - ✔✔Staining Walls and furniture when
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
crushed
Earwigs have a distinctive pincer-like structure on the end of the abdomen T or F -
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
✔✔True
|| || || || || || || ||
detailed answers ||
Oriental Cockroach - ✔✔A medium to large sized glossy dark brown to black
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
cockroach with wings shorter than the abdomen. || || || || || ||
Flour Beetles - ✔✔Insects that damage stored food by chewing in both the adult and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
larval stage. ||
Indian Meal Moth - ✔✔The adult insect that has wings and can fly
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
Red Flour Beetle - ✔✔The beetle that is elongated, flat, shiny reddish brown, about
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
1/8 inch long, can fly, and has three antennal segments enlarged abruptly into a club.
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Insects with complete metamorphosis go through four life stages. - ✔✔Egg, larvae,
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
pupae, adult ||
Infested flour shoes large amount of webbing with larvae actively feeding. Small,
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
reddish-gray moths are the Adult form. Larvae are not spotted. - ✔✔Indian Meal
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Moth
Ground Beetles prey on - ✔✔Other Insects
|| || || || || ||
When considering pest management of house flies and related species of flies, consider
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
chemical control only after you have established a sound program including. -
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
✔✔Sanitation & Exclusion || ||
, German Cockroaches & Asian cockroaches can be distinguished from one another by...
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
- ✔✔Habitat & flight
|| || || ||
T or F The granary weevil attacks grain before harvest and storage - ✔✔True
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
T or F Smoky brown cockroaches prefer an outside habitat but move indoors during
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
seasonal migration and adverse weather conditions.. - ✔✔True
|| || || || || || ||
T or F The larvae of the Angoumois grain moth fedd on flour - ✔✔False
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
T or F The larval stage of a fly is called a maggot - ✔✔True
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
T or F The larvae of the house fly develop in animal waste or rotting fruits and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
vegetables. - ✔✔True || ||
T or F Dermestid beetles can attack and destroy pantry materials, such as grain and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
flour, as well as on woolens, furs, and feathers. - ✔✔True
|| || || || || || || || || ||
What does the house dust mite feed on? - ✔✔Shed Skin Scales
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
House dust mites are linked to and often thought to be the cause of what disease? -
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
✔✔Asthma
Clover Mites Cause most of their damage by? - ✔✔Staining Walls and furniture when
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
crushed
Earwigs have a distinctive pincer-like structure on the end of the abdomen T or F -
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
✔✔True
