TEXAS PUBLIC HEALTH PEST CONTROL EXAM
QUESTIONS & CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST 2025
How do pest animals directly affect the health of people and other animals?
Only Biting and Parasitizing
The term vector denotes most specifically:
The living transporter and transmitter of a pathogen from its reservoir to a
susceptible host
A mechanical vector for a pathogen is:
Not an essential host in the pathogen's life cycle.
Certain pests have become important to the public health of humans because
they have developed one or more of the following behaviors:
Synanthropic, defensive, and parasitic behavior.
The principles of integrated pest management (IPM) do not apply to the control
of public health related pests.
False
The epidemic is most specifically:
an outbreak of a disease in a human population.
The principles of integrated pest management (IPM) imply that chemical
pesticides will not be used in any way to control target pest populations of public
health importance.
False
In the cycling of an arthropod-borne disease, the reservoir functions as:
The host of the pathogen and the source of the pathogen for its vectors.
, Removal and proper disposal of trash would be an example of this nonchemical
control of public health pests such as rats and cockroaches.
Sanitation.
The living elements that need to be present for an arthropod-borne disease to
continue to cycle in a given geographic location are:
Pathogen, reservoir, vector and susceptible host
Survey and monitoring efforts are not needed in the case of integrated pest
management programs developed for the control of public health related pests.
False
The family of the fly order Diptera to which all species of mosquitoes belong is:
Culicidae
Mosquitoes differ from all other insects belonging to the order Diptera in that the
adults of all mosquito species have the following characteristics in common:
a. A piercing and sucking mouthpart system elongated into a proboscis.
b. Long, Many-segmented antennae
c. Scales on the wing veins and margins
d. All of the above
The following stages of a mosquito's life cycle are considered to be aquatic:
a. Egg
b. Larva
c. Pupa
d. Adult
e. All of the above
f. All but d. above
QUESTIONS & CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST 2025
How do pest animals directly affect the health of people and other animals?
Only Biting and Parasitizing
The term vector denotes most specifically:
The living transporter and transmitter of a pathogen from its reservoir to a
susceptible host
A mechanical vector for a pathogen is:
Not an essential host in the pathogen's life cycle.
Certain pests have become important to the public health of humans because
they have developed one or more of the following behaviors:
Synanthropic, defensive, and parasitic behavior.
The principles of integrated pest management (IPM) do not apply to the control
of public health related pests.
False
The epidemic is most specifically:
an outbreak of a disease in a human population.
The principles of integrated pest management (IPM) imply that chemical
pesticides will not be used in any way to control target pest populations of public
health importance.
False
In the cycling of an arthropod-borne disease, the reservoir functions as:
The host of the pathogen and the source of the pathogen for its vectors.
, Removal and proper disposal of trash would be an example of this nonchemical
control of public health pests such as rats and cockroaches.
Sanitation.
The living elements that need to be present for an arthropod-borne disease to
continue to cycle in a given geographic location are:
Pathogen, reservoir, vector and susceptible host
Survey and monitoring efforts are not needed in the case of integrated pest
management programs developed for the control of public health related pests.
False
The family of the fly order Diptera to which all species of mosquitoes belong is:
Culicidae
Mosquitoes differ from all other insects belonging to the order Diptera in that the
adults of all mosquito species have the following characteristics in common:
a. A piercing and sucking mouthpart system elongated into a proboscis.
b. Long, Many-segmented antennae
c. Scales on the wing veins and margins
d. All of the above
The following stages of a mosquito's life cycle are considered to be aquatic:
a. Egg
b. Larva
c. Pupa
d. Adult
e. All of the above
f. All but d. above
