CA Branch 3 Practice Test Questions with Correct Answers 100% Verified and Graded A+ 2024

CA Branch 3 Practice Test Questions with Correct
Answers 100% Verified and Graded A+ 2024
The Black Polycaon are one of the wood destroying largest beetles at 1/2 to 1 inch
long? True or False - Correct Answer True

Beetles have a complete life cycle? True or False - Correct Answer True

A Lyctid beetle is a true powderpost beetle? True or False - Correct Answer True

Black Polycaons are likely to re-infest? True or False - Correct Answer False, they do
not re-infest

Lyctid beetles attack mostly hardwoods and they do re-infest? True or False - Correct
Answer True

Lead cable borers attack maple and other hardwoods. They will also bore through lead
sheathing around phone and power lines? True or False - Correct Answer True

Name 3 Bostrichidae (False Powderpost Beetles)? - Correct Answer Lead Cable Borer,
Black Polycaon, Bamboo Borer

Bamboo borers are very damaging to bamboo furniture and will re-infest? True or False
- Correct Answer True

Deathwatch beetles are known for their mating signal. How do they do that? - Correct
Answer Strike their head against the surface they are standing on

Lead Cable Borers do not re-infest? True or False - Correct Answer False, they do re-
infest

Deathwatch beetles attack oak and hardwoods and will re-infest? True or False -
Correct Answer True

Name two Anobiidae (false powderpost beetles? - Correct Answer Deathwatch,
Furniture Beetle

Furniture beetles will attack coniferous and hardwoods and prefer new wood instead of
old? True or False - Correct Answer 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 - Correct Answer False, they do not
re-infest

New house borers prefer old seasoned wood? True or False - Correct Answer 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 - Correct Answer 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 - Correct
Answer 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 - Correct Answer False, do not re-infest and they cannot
survive in seasoned wood.

Name a Buprestidae Beetle? - Correct Answer Flat Headed Borer

What does frass from a lyctid beetle look like? - Correct Answer 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 - Correct Answer True

Bark beetles are a serious pest of our forest but may be brought in with firewood? True
or False - Correct Answer True

New house borers may bore through hardwoods, plaster, composition roofing and
linoleum to emerge but they do not require treatment because they will not re-infest?
True or False - Correct Answer True

Bark beetles do no re-infest? True or False - Correct Answer True

Black polycaon emergence holes that are about 1/4 inch in diameter? True or False -
Correct Answer True

You can tell the difference between a true powderpost and false powderpost beetle's
frass because only a true powderpost beetle has a fine "face-powder" like consistency?
True or False - Correct Answer True

Lyctid beetle emergence holes are about 1/32nd to 1/16th inch in diameter? True or
False - Correct Answer True

Will a bamboo borer re-infest? True or False - Correct Answer True

Furniture beetle emergence holes are about 1/16th to 1/8th inch in diameter and they
will re-infest? True or False - Correct Answer True