Texas Certified Applicator Exam
Prep Questions And Correct Answers
What is usually the cause when liquid flows into pump of a compressed sprayer and
shoots out the handle?**
Worn Check Valve
Ants with one node?*
Carpenter, crazy, Rasberry Crazy, False Honey, Rover, Argentine, Odorous, ghost,
pyramid
Ants with 2 nodes?*
Fire, Thief, Pavement, Acrobat, Pharaoh, Little black, Harvester, Big Headed, Leaf cutter,
Acacia, elongated twig
Adult dull gray with 4 stripes on thorax?**
House fly
Other than house flies what species of flys are common the residential
environments.*
,Blue blow, Green blow, stable, Fruit flies, phorid, fungus gnats, moth flies
Four wings 3/4 inch wing spread fore wings are grey near body reddish at tips*
Indian meal moths
Species of wasp that build home above and below ground*
Yellow jacket
To reduce contact with scorpions eliminate...?*
Bricks, stones, wood, trash and other potential harborage points.
Insect 3/4 inch yellowish brown with powerful hind legs.*
The house/ field cricket
Ants pose particular risk in hospitals because?**
Carry diseases and organisms on legs and body
The four distinct stages of mosquitoes.*
, Egg, larva, pupa and adult
Species of insect primary vector of yellow fever and dengue?**
Aedes aegypti or Asian Tiger mosquitoes
Lone star tick (amblyomma) primary vector of what diseases?
Mono cystic Ehrilichiosis and Southern Tick assisted rash illness
American Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis) is the primary vector of what diseases?
Rocky Mountain fever and tuleremia anaplasmosis
Black Legged Deer Tick is the primary vector of what disease
Spirochete (Lyme disease)
Court ruling "____________ __________" usually involves cases where children are
attracted to application equipment and pesticide left unattended by applicators.*
Attractive Nuisance
Prep Questions And Correct Answers
What is usually the cause when liquid flows into pump of a compressed sprayer and
shoots out the handle?**
Worn Check Valve
Ants with one node?*
Carpenter, crazy, Rasberry Crazy, False Honey, Rover, Argentine, Odorous, ghost,
pyramid
Ants with 2 nodes?*
Fire, Thief, Pavement, Acrobat, Pharaoh, Little black, Harvester, Big Headed, Leaf cutter,
Acacia, elongated twig
Adult dull gray with 4 stripes on thorax?**
House fly
Other than house flies what species of flys are common the residential
environments.*
,Blue blow, Green blow, stable, Fruit flies, phorid, fungus gnats, moth flies
Four wings 3/4 inch wing spread fore wings are grey near body reddish at tips*
Indian meal moths
Species of wasp that build home above and below ground*
Yellow jacket
To reduce contact with scorpions eliminate...?*
Bricks, stones, wood, trash and other potential harborage points.
Insect 3/4 inch yellowish brown with powerful hind legs.*
The house/ field cricket
Ants pose particular risk in hospitals because?**
Carry diseases and organisms on legs and body
The four distinct stages of mosquitoes.*
, Egg, larva, pupa and adult
Species of insect primary vector of yellow fever and dengue?**
Aedes aegypti or Asian Tiger mosquitoes
Lone star tick (amblyomma) primary vector of what diseases?
Mono cystic Ehrilichiosis and Southern Tick assisted rash illness
American Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis) is the primary vector of what diseases?
Rocky Mountain fever and tuleremia anaplasmosis
Black Legged Deer Tick is the primary vector of what disease
Spirochete (Lyme disease)
Court ruling "____________ __________" usually involves cases where children are
attracted to application equipment and pesticide left unattended by applicators.*
Attractive Nuisance
