GEORGIA PEST CONTROL CERTIFICATION
FINAL STUDY PAPER 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ Black Carpet Beetle. Answer: Most abundant carpet beetle, causes
most damage to fabrics, shiny black, brownish legs, 1/8-3/16 in,
carrot shaped larva with long bushy tail bristles
◉ Black fly, stable fly, horse fly, deer fly. Answer: Flies with biting
mouthparts
◉ Blackwidow. Answer: This spiders bite produce a neurotoxin can
be deadly
◉ Blattodea. Answer: Cockroaches, Praying Mantis (Order)
◉ blood sucking conenose. Answer: insect ectoparasite, takes a
blood meal around the lips of man, transmits chagas disease.
◉ blow fly and bottle fly. Answer: about twice the size of the house
fly, metallic blue or green in color
◉ Book louse order. Answer: Insecta
,◉ Boric acid. Answer: Inorganic
◉ Botanicals. Answer: Made from plant parts, Pyrethrum, oils
◉ Bottle and blow flies. Answer: Large flies, blue black or green
metallic color, common in populated areas
◉ boxelder bug. Answer: bright red or black, narrow reddish line on
back, may stain curtains with fecal spots and produce a foul odor,
1/2" long.
◉ Brown banded cockroach. Answer: has two lighter bands running
from one side to another across base of wings and abdomen,
smallest egg capsule. glues it to surfaces in clusters
◉ Brown rot. Answer: Most common wood decay fungus
◉ Brown rot occurs in. Answer: occurs in softwoods
◉ Buprestidae example(s). Answer: Metallic wood borer(A) flat
headed borers(L)
,◉ Buprestidae exit holes. Answer: broadly oval, tend to be longer
and thinner than the old house borer
◉ Buprestidae life cycle. Answer: may be so long that they emerge
from a home several years in a row. may require fumigation if home
is heavily infested
◉ Buprestidae wood type. Answer: attack dead tree limbs, and logs,
do not reinfest seasoned structural wood in homes.
◉ Butterflies and moths metamorphosis. Answer: Complete
metamorphosis
◉ Cadelle. Answer: External feeder, shiny black, strong separation
between pronoun and wing base can lay 3,500 eggs in lifetime.
◉ Calliphoridae. Answer: Bottle flies
◉ Carbamates. Answer: Ficam, Sevin, Baygon. (Bendiocarb, Carbaryl,
Propoxur)
◉ Carpenter ants. Answer: Ant that nests in wood, has yellow hairs
around anus
, ◉ Carries egg for 27 days and drops 1 day before hatching. Answer:
German roach
◉ Casemaking clothes moth. Answer: Larva spins small silken bag
around itself and carries while feeding on fabric, most common in
southern US, rarely leaves silken webbing on fabric
◉ cat flea. Answer: most common flea found in homes, larva is
legless, feeds on dry undigested blood of its adults. prefer warm
humid conditions
◉ cave/ camel cricket. Answer: dark stains near wood adjacent to
foundation walls and on top of exterior in crawl, long legs and
antennae, no wings
◉ Centipede order. Answer: Chilopoda
◉ Centipedes. Answer: 1 pair of legs per body segment
◉ Cerci. Answer: Pinchers located on abdomen of earwigs
◉ Chagas disease. Answer: Spread by blood suckling cone nose
FINAL STUDY PAPER 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ Black Carpet Beetle. Answer: Most abundant carpet beetle, causes
most damage to fabrics, shiny black, brownish legs, 1/8-3/16 in,
carrot shaped larva with long bushy tail bristles
◉ Black fly, stable fly, horse fly, deer fly. Answer: Flies with biting
mouthparts
◉ Blackwidow. Answer: This spiders bite produce a neurotoxin can
be deadly
◉ Blattodea. Answer: Cockroaches, Praying Mantis (Order)
◉ blood sucking conenose. Answer: insect ectoparasite, takes a
blood meal around the lips of man, transmits chagas disease.
◉ blow fly and bottle fly. Answer: about twice the size of the house
fly, metallic blue or green in color
◉ Book louse order. Answer: Insecta
,◉ Boric acid. Answer: Inorganic
◉ Botanicals. Answer: Made from plant parts, Pyrethrum, oils
◉ Bottle and blow flies. Answer: Large flies, blue black or green
metallic color, common in populated areas
◉ boxelder bug. Answer: bright red or black, narrow reddish line on
back, may stain curtains with fecal spots and produce a foul odor,
1/2" long.
◉ Brown banded cockroach. Answer: has two lighter bands running
from one side to another across base of wings and abdomen,
smallest egg capsule. glues it to surfaces in clusters
◉ Brown rot. Answer: Most common wood decay fungus
◉ Brown rot occurs in. Answer: occurs in softwoods
◉ Buprestidae example(s). Answer: Metallic wood borer(A) flat
headed borers(L)
,◉ Buprestidae exit holes. Answer: broadly oval, tend to be longer
and thinner than the old house borer
◉ Buprestidae life cycle. Answer: may be so long that they emerge
from a home several years in a row. may require fumigation if home
is heavily infested
◉ Buprestidae wood type. Answer: attack dead tree limbs, and logs,
do not reinfest seasoned structural wood in homes.
◉ Butterflies and moths metamorphosis. Answer: Complete
metamorphosis
◉ Cadelle. Answer: External feeder, shiny black, strong separation
between pronoun and wing base can lay 3,500 eggs in lifetime.
◉ Calliphoridae. Answer: Bottle flies
◉ Carbamates. Answer: Ficam, Sevin, Baygon. (Bendiocarb, Carbaryl,
Propoxur)
◉ Carpenter ants. Answer: Ant that nests in wood, has yellow hairs
around anus
, ◉ Carries egg for 27 days and drops 1 day before hatching. Answer:
German roach
◉ Casemaking clothes moth. Answer: Larva spins small silken bag
around itself and carries while feeding on fabric, most common in
southern US, rarely leaves silken webbing on fabric
◉ cat flea. Answer: most common flea found in homes, larva is
legless, feeds on dry undigested blood of its adults. prefer warm
humid conditions
◉ cave/ camel cricket. Answer: dark stains near wood adjacent to
foundation walls and on top of exterior in crawl, long legs and
antennae, no wings
◉ Centipede order. Answer: Chilopoda
◉ Centipedes. Answer: 1 pair of legs per body segment
◉ Cerci. Answer: Pinchers located on abdomen of earwigs
◉ Chagas disease. Answer: Spread by blood suckling cone nose
