Mississippi Pesticide License Exam 2023 with complete
solution
Hours of college credit in category required for a license.
15
Years experience within what time frame required to qualify for a license.
1 year within 3
How long is a license valid.
Three years.
Bond requirement for Pest control.
$5,000
Insurance required per occurrence and aggregate.
$100,000 and $200,000
Time records are to be kept after the end of a contract.
2 years
How many hours of classroom training are required for a registered technician.
8 hours general training, and 8 hours specific to the category.
To renew a license or permit, you must do what?
Complete an approved training course, or pass an examination within the past 12
months.
Types of insect life cycles.
Gradual - Complete - Ametabolus (Without Metamorphosis)
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Beetles
Coleoptera - Complete - Chewing
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Butterflies & Moths
Lepidoptera - Complete - Chewing as caterpillars, and siphoning as adults.
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of flies.
Diptera - Complete - Chewing as immatures, and sucking or sponging as adults.
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Ants, Bees, and Wasps.
Hymenoptera - Complete - Chewing or chewing and sucking
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of true bugs, cicadas, leafhoppers, fulgorids, aphids,
whiteflies, and scales.
Hemiptera - Gradual - Sucking
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Crickets and grasshoppers.
Orthopetera - Gradual - Chewing
Stages of a gradual life cycle.
Egg, nymph, and adult.
Stages of a complete life cycle.
Egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
Stages of ametabolus life cycle.
Young look just like adults in every way, just smaller.
Characteristics of Chewing mouthparts.
Strong mandibles, smaller pair of maxillae.
Characteristics of Piercing/Sucking mouthparts.
,Elongate holo proboscis used to pierce plant, animal, or insect being fed upon to suck
up sap or blood.
Characteristics of mouthparts used for both Chewing and Sucking
Chewing mandibles as well as other mouthparts modified for sucking.
Characteristics of mouthparts used for Sponging
Hollow proboscis with an enlarged sponge-like structure.
Characteristics of mouthparts used for Siphoning
Long hollow proboscis usually rolled up when not in use.
A large order of insects having a single pair of wings, and sucking or piercing
mouthparts. Describe picture.
Diptera (Flys)
Leaf Miner - Describe picture, what they are, and how they feed.
Various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf tissue.
Describe picture and name of result of damage from an insect to the leaf of a plant.
Insect is usually gone.
Leaf Gall
Crane Fly (Identify, life cycle, and food)
Long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite. Complete life
cycle. Feeds on grass roots, but adults do not feed.
Hymenoptera
an order of insects including: bees
Cicada killer (Life cycle, food, and characteristic)
large black or rust-colored wasp that preys on cicadas, complete life cycle, largest wasp
, Imported fire ant (Identify, life cycle, food, characteristics)
Hymenoptera holometabolous chewing pest, Complete life cycle, feeds on insects and
seeds, has painful sting.
Orthoptera
Order of grasshoppers, and crickets
House crickets
nocturnal, live 2-3 months, lay 40 to 100 eggs
Field cricket (Identify, life cycle, characteristics)
Common American black cricket. Gradual life cycle, males use structures on their wings
to produce songs.
Mole Cricket (Life cycle, food, and characteristics)
Digs in moist soil and feeds on plant roots, gradual life cycle, and pests of golf courses.
Chinch bugs - Describe picture and order
small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses - Order of Hiemiptera
solution
Hours of college credit in category required for a license.
15
Years experience within what time frame required to qualify for a license.
1 year within 3
How long is a license valid.
Three years.
Bond requirement for Pest control.
$5,000
Insurance required per occurrence and aggregate.
$100,000 and $200,000
Time records are to be kept after the end of a contract.
2 years
How many hours of classroom training are required for a registered technician.
8 hours general training, and 8 hours specific to the category.
To renew a license or permit, you must do what?
Complete an approved training course, or pass an examination within the past 12
months.
Types of insect life cycles.
Gradual - Complete - Ametabolus (Without Metamorphosis)
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Beetles
Coleoptera - Complete - Chewing
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Butterflies & Moths
Lepidoptera - Complete - Chewing as caterpillars, and siphoning as adults.
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of flies.
Diptera - Complete - Chewing as immatures, and sucking or sponging as adults.
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Ants, Bees, and Wasps.
Hymenoptera - Complete - Chewing or chewing and sucking
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of true bugs, cicadas, leafhoppers, fulgorids, aphids,
whiteflies, and scales.
Hemiptera - Gradual - Sucking
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Crickets and grasshoppers.
Orthopetera - Gradual - Chewing
Stages of a gradual life cycle.
Egg, nymph, and adult.
Stages of a complete life cycle.
Egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
Stages of ametabolus life cycle.
Young look just like adults in every way, just smaller.
Characteristics of Chewing mouthparts.
Strong mandibles, smaller pair of maxillae.
Characteristics of Piercing/Sucking mouthparts.
,Elongate holo proboscis used to pierce plant, animal, or insect being fed upon to suck
up sap or blood.
Characteristics of mouthparts used for both Chewing and Sucking
Chewing mandibles as well as other mouthparts modified for sucking.
Characteristics of mouthparts used for Sponging
Hollow proboscis with an enlarged sponge-like structure.
Characteristics of mouthparts used for Siphoning
Long hollow proboscis usually rolled up when not in use.
A large order of insects having a single pair of wings, and sucking or piercing
mouthparts. Describe picture.
Diptera (Flys)
Leaf Miner - Describe picture, what they are, and how they feed.
Various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf tissue.
Describe picture and name of result of damage from an insect to the leaf of a plant.
Insect is usually gone.
Leaf Gall
Crane Fly (Identify, life cycle, and food)
Long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite. Complete life
cycle. Feeds on grass roots, but adults do not feed.
Hymenoptera
an order of insects including: bees
Cicada killer (Life cycle, food, and characteristic)
large black or rust-colored wasp that preys on cicadas, complete life cycle, largest wasp
, Imported fire ant (Identify, life cycle, food, characteristics)
Hymenoptera holometabolous chewing pest, Complete life cycle, feeds on insects and
seeds, has painful sting.
Orthoptera
Order of grasshoppers, and crickets
House crickets
nocturnal, live 2-3 months, lay 40 to 100 eggs
Field cricket (Identify, life cycle, characteristics)
Common American black cricket. Gradual life cycle, males use structures on their wings
to produce songs.
Mole Cricket (Life cycle, food, and characteristics)
Digs in moist soil and feeds on plant roots, gradual life cycle, and pests of golf courses.
Chinch bugs - Describe picture and order
small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses - Order of Hiemiptera
