CA Branch 3 Practice Test
Questions And Correct Answers
The Black Polycaon are one of the wood destroying largest beetles at 1/2 to 1 inch
long? True or False
True
Beetles have a complete life cycle? True or False
True
A Lyctid beetle is a true powderpost beetle? True or False
True
Black Polycaons are likely to re-infest? True or False
False, they do not re-infest
Lyctid beetles attack mostly hardwoods and they do re-infest? True or False
True
,Lead cable borers attack maple and other hardwoods. They will also bore through lead
sheathing around phone and power lines? True or False
True
Name 3 Bostrichidae (False Powderpost Beetles)?
Lead Cable Borer, Black Polycaon, Bamboo Borer
Bamboo borers are very damaging to bamboo furniture and will re-infest? True or
False
True
Deathwatch beetles are known for their mating signal. How do they do that?
Strike their head against the surface they are standing on
Lead Cable Borers do not re-infest? True or False
False, they do re-infest
Deathwatch beetles attack oak and hardwoods and will re-infest? True or False
,True
Name two Anobiidae (false powderpost beetles?
Deathwatch, Furniture Beetle
Furniture beetles will attack coniferous and hardwoods and prefer new wood instead
of old? True or False
False, prefers old woods to new lumber
If a home has a problem with flat headed borers, you should fumigate the home
because they are likely to reinfest? True or False
False, they do not re-infest
New house borers prefer old seasoned wood? True or False
False, they attack green lumber, likes pines, firs and especially Douglas fir. Will bore
through hardwoods, plaster, comp. roofing and linoleum to emerge. May be brought in
with new lumber and firewood.
Old house borers prefer new/fresh wood? True or False
False, attacks seasoned wood. Prefers pine, fir and spruce. Will attack rustic furniture.
, Bark beetles don't really bore through bark to star their tunnels? True or False
False, they bore through bark and work between bark and sapwood and often leave a
scoring mark. Eggs are laid in their tunnels.
If you see wood damaged by a new house borer, it will need to be treated because
they will re-infest? True or False
False, do not re-infest and they cannot survive in seasoned wood.
Name a Buprestidae Beetle?
Flat Headed Borer
What does frass from a lyctid beetle look like?
Talcum powder-like, packed in channels but will fall freely from emergence holes.
Flat headed borer emergence holes are oval shaped and about 3/8 inch wide? True or
False
True
Questions And Correct Answers
The Black Polycaon are one of the wood destroying largest beetles at 1/2 to 1 inch
long? True or False
True
Beetles have a complete life cycle? True or False
True
A Lyctid beetle is a true powderpost beetle? True or False
True
Black Polycaons are likely to re-infest? True or False
False, they do not re-infest
Lyctid beetles attack mostly hardwoods and they do re-infest? True or False
True
,Lead cable borers attack maple and other hardwoods. They will also bore through lead
sheathing around phone and power lines? True or False
True
Name 3 Bostrichidae (False Powderpost Beetles)?
Lead Cable Borer, Black Polycaon, Bamboo Borer
Bamboo borers are very damaging to bamboo furniture and will re-infest? True or
False
True
Deathwatch beetles are known for their mating signal. How do they do that?
Strike their head against the surface they are standing on
Lead Cable Borers do not re-infest? True or False
False, they do re-infest
Deathwatch beetles attack oak and hardwoods and will re-infest? True or False
,True
Name two Anobiidae (false powderpost beetles?
Deathwatch, Furniture Beetle
Furniture beetles will attack coniferous and hardwoods and prefer new wood instead
of old? True or False
False, prefers old woods to new lumber
If a home has a problem with flat headed borers, you should fumigate the home
because they are likely to reinfest? True or False
False, they do not re-infest
New house borers prefer old seasoned wood? True or False
False, they attack green lumber, likes pines, firs and especially Douglas fir. Will bore
through hardwoods, plaster, comp. roofing and linoleum to emerge. May be brought in
with new lumber and firewood.
Old house borers prefer new/fresh wood? True or False
False, attacks seasoned wood. Prefers pine, fir and spruce. Will attack rustic furniture.
, Bark beetles don't really bore through bark to star their tunnels? True or False
False, they bore through bark and work between bark and sapwood and often leave a
scoring mark. Eggs are laid in their tunnels.
If you see wood damaged by a new house borer, it will need to be treated because
they will re-infest? True or False
False, do not re-infest and they cannot survive in seasoned wood.
Name a Buprestidae Beetle?
Flat Headed Borer
What does frass from a lyctid beetle look like?
Talcum powder-like, packed in channels but will fall freely from emergence holes.
Flat headed borer emergence holes are oval shaped and about 3/8 inch wide? True or
False
True
