CA Branch 3 Practice Test questions with accurate detailed answers

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CA Branch 3 Practice Test questions with accurate detailed
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The Black Polycaon are one of the wood destroying largest beetles at 1/2 to 1 inch long?
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True or False - ✔✔True
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Beetles have a complete life cycle? True or False - ✔✔True
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A Lyctid beetle is a true powderpost beetle? True or False - ✔✔True
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Black Polycaons are likely to re-infest? True or False - ✔✔False, they do not re-infest
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Lyctid beetles attack mostly hardwoods and they do re-infest? True or False - ✔✔True
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Lead cable borers attack maple and other hardwoods. They will also bore through lead
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sheathing around phone and power lines? True or False - ✔✔True
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Name 3 Bostrichidae (False Powderpost Beetles)? - ✔✔Lead Cable Borer, Black Polycaon,
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Bamboo Borer ||




Bamboo borers are very damaging to bamboo furniture and will re-infest? True or False -
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✔✔True



Deathwatch beetles are known for their mating signal. How do they do that? - ✔✔Strike
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their head against the surface they are standing on
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Lead Cable Borers do not re-infest? True or False - ✔✔False, they do re-infest
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Deathwatch beetles attack oak and hardwoods and will re-infest? True or False - ✔✔True
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Name two Anobiidae (false powderpost beetles? - ✔✔Deathwatch, Furniture Beetle
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Furniture beetles will attack coniferous and hardwoods and prefer new wood instead of old?
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True or False - ✔✔False, prefers old woods to new lumber
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If a home has a problem with flat headed borers, you should fumigate the home because
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they are likely to reinfest? True or False - ✔✔False, they do not re-infest
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New house borers prefer old seasoned wood? True or False - ✔✔False, they attack green
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lumber, likes pines, firs and especially Douglas fir. Will bore through hardwoods, plaster,
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comp. roofing and linoleum to emerge. May be brought in with new lumber and firewood.
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Old house borers prefer new/fresh wood? True or False - ✔✔False, attacks seasoned wood.
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Prefers pine, fir and spruce. Will attack rustic furniture.
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Bark beetles don't really bore through bark to star their tunnels? True or False - ✔✔False,
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they bore through bark and work between bark and sapwood and often leave a scoring
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mark. Eggs are laid in their tunnels.
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If you see wood damaged by a new house borer, it will need to be treated because they will
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re-infest? True or False - ✔✔False, do not re-infest and they cannot survive in seasoned
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wood.



Name a Buprestidae Beetle? - ✔✔Flat Headed Borer
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What does frass from a lyctid beetle look like? - ✔✔Talcum powder-like, packed in channels
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but will fall freely from emergence holes.
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Flat headed borer emergence holes are oval shaped and about 3/8 inch wide? True or False -
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✔✔True
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Bark beetles are a serious pest of our forest but may be brought in with firewood? True or
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False - ✔✔True || ||




New house borers may bore through hardwoods, plaster, composition roofing and linoleum
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to emerge but they do not require treatment because they will not re-infest? True or False -
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✔✔True



Bark beetles do no re-infest? True or False - ✔✔True
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Black polycaon emergence holes that are about 1/4 inch in diameter? True or False -
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✔✔True



You can tell the difference between a true powderpost and false powderpost beetle's frass
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because only a true powderpost beetle has a fine "face-powder" like consistency? True or
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False - ✔✔True || ||




Lyctid beetle emergence holes are about 1/32nd to 1/16th inch in diameter? True or False -
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✔✔True



Will a bamboo borer re-infest? True or False - ✔✔True
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Furniture beetle emergence holes are about 1/16th to 1/8th inch in diameter and they will
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re-infest? True or False - ✔✔True || || || || ||