GEORGIA PEST CONTROL CERTIFICATION
ASSESSMENT TEST 2026 TESTED QUESTIONS
WITH FULL SOLUTION GRADED A+
◉ Common Carpet Beetle. Answer: Strikingly patterned with colored
scales, red/orange line where elytra meet in middle of its back
◉ common house fly. Answer: most common in the world, life cycle
7-45 days, 4 dark stripes on thorax
◉ Complete metamorphosis. Answer: Butterflies and moths
◉ Complete metamorphosis. Answer: Egg,larva,pupa,adult
◉ concern wood decay fungi. Answer: brown rot, white rot, poria
incrassata
◉ Cone nose bugs. Answer: Hemiptera
◉ Confused Flour Beetle. Answer: Small grain beetle, no beak, head
visible from above, no teeth on pronotum, cant fly, found in northern
US
,◉ Contact Poison. Answer: kills pests simply by touching them
◉ Coxa. Answer: Part of leg attached to body
◉ Crazy Ant. Answer: small, 1 noded, very long legs and first
antennal segment compared to other ants
◉ Crickets& Silverfish. Answer: Not considered fabric pests although
they might damage fabrics
◉ Crustaceans. Answer: Have at least 5 pairs of legs and breathe by
gills
◉ Culex pipiens. Answer: mosquito that transmits encephalitis and
west nile fever
◉ Cultural. Answer: The rotation of stored food products (FIFO)
◉ Cuticele. Answer: Non living layer of cells
◉ Dark Mealworm. Answer: Large grain beetle, secondary feeder,
dull black in color as an adult
,◉ Death watch and furniture beetles. Answer: Anobiid beetle, heads
not visible from above reddish brown to dark brown confused with
other beetles this beetle breaks down cellulose unlike other beetles
◉ deer tick. Answer: arachnid ectoparasite, known for lyme disease,
bulls-eye pattern around its bite
◉ Demand cs mode of action. Answer: Contact
◉ Demon. Answer: Synthetic pyrethroid
◉ Dermaptera. Answer: Order of earwigs
◉ dermestids. Answer: difficult to control in homes and industrial
establishments, common pests of hides. (larder, hide, bllack larder)
◉ Diazanon. Answer: Organophosphate
◉ Difethialone. Answer: Single feed anticoagulant
◉ Diphacinone. Answer: Anticoagulant rodenticide
, ◉ Diptera. Answer: Order of flies and mosquitoes
◉ Diseases spread by flies and mosquitoes. Answer: Malaria,yellow
fever, dengue, encephalitis, west nile
◉ Dragonflies and damselflies metamorphosis. Answer: Incomplete
metamorphosis
◉ Drosophilidae. Answer: Vinegar or fruit flies
◉ Drugstore beetle. Answer: External feeder, Closely resembles
cigarette beetle, grubs are C shaped. Found in flour, cereals or dog
food
◉ Drugstore Beetle. Answer: Small grain beetle, head hidden under
pronotum, parallel lines on elytra
◉ Dust. Answer: Pesticide adhered to the outside of coarse particles
of dry inert substances
◉ Earwigs. Answer: These arthropods have 2 pair of wings and
some of them fly, has cerci on its abdomen which are different for
males and females
ASSESSMENT TEST 2026 TESTED QUESTIONS
WITH FULL SOLUTION GRADED A+
◉ Common Carpet Beetle. Answer: Strikingly patterned with colored
scales, red/orange line where elytra meet in middle of its back
◉ common house fly. Answer: most common in the world, life cycle
7-45 days, 4 dark stripes on thorax
◉ Complete metamorphosis. Answer: Butterflies and moths
◉ Complete metamorphosis. Answer: Egg,larva,pupa,adult
◉ concern wood decay fungi. Answer: brown rot, white rot, poria
incrassata
◉ Cone nose bugs. Answer: Hemiptera
◉ Confused Flour Beetle. Answer: Small grain beetle, no beak, head
visible from above, no teeth on pronotum, cant fly, found in northern
US
,◉ Contact Poison. Answer: kills pests simply by touching them
◉ Coxa. Answer: Part of leg attached to body
◉ Crazy Ant. Answer: small, 1 noded, very long legs and first
antennal segment compared to other ants
◉ Crickets& Silverfish. Answer: Not considered fabric pests although
they might damage fabrics
◉ Crustaceans. Answer: Have at least 5 pairs of legs and breathe by
gills
◉ Culex pipiens. Answer: mosquito that transmits encephalitis and
west nile fever
◉ Cultural. Answer: The rotation of stored food products (FIFO)
◉ Cuticele. Answer: Non living layer of cells
◉ Dark Mealworm. Answer: Large grain beetle, secondary feeder,
dull black in color as an adult
,◉ Death watch and furniture beetles. Answer: Anobiid beetle, heads
not visible from above reddish brown to dark brown confused with
other beetles this beetle breaks down cellulose unlike other beetles
◉ deer tick. Answer: arachnid ectoparasite, known for lyme disease,
bulls-eye pattern around its bite
◉ Demand cs mode of action. Answer: Contact
◉ Demon. Answer: Synthetic pyrethroid
◉ Dermaptera. Answer: Order of earwigs
◉ dermestids. Answer: difficult to control in homes and industrial
establishments, common pests of hides. (larder, hide, bllack larder)
◉ Diazanon. Answer: Organophosphate
◉ Difethialone. Answer: Single feed anticoagulant
◉ Diphacinone. Answer: Anticoagulant rodenticide
, ◉ Diptera. Answer: Order of flies and mosquitoes
◉ Diseases spread by flies and mosquitoes. Answer: Malaria,yellow
fever, dengue, encephalitis, west nile
◉ Dragonflies and damselflies metamorphosis. Answer: Incomplete
metamorphosis
◉ Drosophilidae. Answer: Vinegar or fruit flies
◉ Drugstore beetle. Answer: External feeder, Closely resembles
cigarette beetle, grubs are C shaped. Found in flour, cereals or dog
food
◉ Drugstore Beetle. Answer: Small grain beetle, head hidden under
pronotum, parallel lines on elytra
◉ Dust. Answer: Pesticide adhered to the outside of coarse particles
of dry inert substances
◉ Earwigs. Answer: These arthropods have 2 pair of wings and
some of them fly, has cerci on its abdomen which are different for
males and females
