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Ohio Commercial Pesticide Applicator Category 10d –
Vector Control Exam||VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES .pdf
Explain the differences between continuous pests,
sporadic pests, and potential pests. - Answer-Continuous
pests are nearly always present and require regular
control; sporadic pests are migratory, cyclical, or other
occasional pests that require control once in a while, but
not on a regular basis; potential pests are organisms that
are not pests under normal conditions, but can become
pests and require control in certain circumstances.
Explain what is meant by prevention, suppression, and
eradication of pests - Answer-Prevention is keeping a pest
from becoming a problem; suppression is reducing pest
numbers or damage to an acceptable level; eradication is
destroying an entire pest population
What is a threshold? Why should you consider thresholds
when you develop a pest control strategy? - Answer-
Thresholds are the levels of pest populations at which you
must take pest control action to prevent unacceptable
damage or injury. Use of threshold information can
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improve your pest control strategy by helping you make a
decision about when to begin control tactics.
Describe pest monitoring and explain how it can be
important to pest control strategy. - Answer-Monitoring is
checking or scouting for pests in an area to determine
what pests are present, how many of each kind of pest are
in the area, and how much damage they are causing.
Monitoring is important to many pest control strategies,
because it helps, determine if the threshold has been
reached and whether control measures have been
effective.
What is the first thing you should do when you detect the
presence of a pest that you think you may need to control?
- Answer-Identify the pest to be sure you know exactly
what the problem is.
How can pest identification help you develop a good pest
control strategy? - Answer-Identification of the pest allows
you to determine basic information about it, including its
life cycle and the time that it is most susceptible to being
controlled.
Define "integrated pest management" (IPM) and list
several possible control tactics that may be used in an
IPM strategy. - Answer-Integrated pest management is the
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combining of appropriate pest control tactics into a single
plan to reduce pests and their damage to an acceptable
level. Pest control tactics may include: host resistance,
biological control, cultural control, mechanical control,
sanitation, and chemical (pesticide) control.
You applied a pesticide, but it did not control the pest.
Name three reasons why your control effort might have
failed. - Answer-The failure of the pesticide to control the
pest might have been caused by pest resistance, choosing
the wrong pesticide, misidentifying the pest, applying the
wrong amount, or applying the pesticide incorrectly.
What can you do to keep the pests you are trying to
control from becoming resistance to the pesticides you
use? - Answer-Pest resistance can be reduced by using
integrated pest management and rotating the types of
pesticides used.
Explain the differences between the terms "label" and
"labeling." - Answer-The label is the information printed on
or attached to the pesticide container. Labeling includes
the label itself, plus all other information you receive from
the manufacturer about the product when you buy it.
Ohio Commercial Pesticide Applicator Category 10d –
Vector Control Exam||VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES .pdf
Explain the differences between continuous pests,
sporadic pests, and potential pests. - Answer-Continuous
pests are nearly always present and require regular
control; sporadic pests are migratory, cyclical, or other
occasional pests that require control once in a while, but
not on a regular basis; potential pests are organisms that
are not pests under normal conditions, but can become
pests and require control in certain circumstances.
Explain what is meant by prevention, suppression, and
eradication of pests - Answer-Prevention is keeping a pest
from becoming a problem; suppression is reducing pest
numbers or damage to an acceptable level; eradication is
destroying an entire pest population
What is a threshold? Why should you consider thresholds
when you develop a pest control strategy? - Answer-
Thresholds are the levels of pest populations at which you
must take pest control action to prevent unacceptable
damage or injury. Use of threshold information can
,2|Page
improve your pest control strategy by helping you make a
decision about when to begin control tactics.
Describe pest monitoring and explain how it can be
important to pest control strategy. - Answer-Monitoring is
checking or scouting for pests in an area to determine
what pests are present, how many of each kind of pest are
in the area, and how much damage they are causing.
Monitoring is important to many pest control strategies,
because it helps, determine if the threshold has been
reached and whether control measures have been
effective.
What is the first thing you should do when you detect the
presence of a pest that you think you may need to control?
- Answer-Identify the pest to be sure you know exactly
what the problem is.
How can pest identification help you develop a good pest
control strategy? - Answer-Identification of the pest allows
you to determine basic information about it, including its
life cycle and the time that it is most susceptible to being
controlled.
Define "integrated pest management" (IPM) and list
several possible control tactics that may be used in an
IPM strategy. - Answer-Integrated pest management is the
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combining of appropriate pest control tactics into a single
plan to reduce pests and their damage to an acceptable
level. Pest control tactics may include: host resistance,
biological control, cultural control, mechanical control,
sanitation, and chemical (pesticide) control.
You applied a pesticide, but it did not control the pest.
Name three reasons why your control effort might have
failed. - Answer-The failure of the pesticide to control the
pest might have been caused by pest resistance, choosing
the wrong pesticide, misidentifying the pest, applying the
wrong amount, or applying the pesticide incorrectly.
What can you do to keep the pests you are trying to
control from becoming resistance to the pesticides you
use? - Answer-Pest resistance can be reduced by using
integrated pest management and rotating the types of
pesticides used.
Explain the differences between the terms "label" and
"labeling." - Answer-The label is the information printed on
or attached to the pesticide container. Labeling includes
the label itself, plus all other information you receive from
the manufacturer about the product when you buy it.
