CDFA IPM STUDY GUIDE 2026 COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND STEP BY STEP SOLUTIONS

CDFA IPM STUDY GUIDE 2026
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND STEP
BY STEP SOLUTIONS

◉ What can be salvaged from a diseased colony
Answer: hive bodies (crates, boxes, ect.)


◉ What animal builds mud nests on the side of buildings
Answer: cliff swallows


◉ How do bees transport pollen
Answer: hind leg receptacles


◉ If the value of a crop decreases what happens to the Economic
Injury Level
Answer: it increases


◉ What is Economic Injury Level
Answer: depends more on the insect damage that can be tolerated
rather than population size

, ◉ What is the term for a domestic animal that escapes and becomes
established in the wild
Answer: feral animal


◉ Which is a biological control for Pacific Spider Mites and Rust
Mites
Answer: six spotted thirp


◉ Bees pollinate what crops in desert regions?
Answer: alfalfa


◉ Bees pollinate which crops in arid regions of CA, NV and AZ?
Answer: Cotton/Alfalfa


◉ Parasite of Alfalfa Butterfly is medicaginus cotesia, what does it
attack (what stage)
Answer: early instar


◉ What is eradication
Answer: usually pertains to outbreak of pest that is exotic from long
distances away and to completely remove a pest from an area


◉ What is true when putting out anticoagulant bait