GEORGIA CERTIFIED OPERATOR EXAM
GUIDE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Ommatidia - Answer-Compound insect eyes with many lenses
Porcupine wire - Answer-Used as bird repellant
Ultrasonic pest devices - Answer-Supposedly repels insects
Thysanaura - Answer-Order of silverfish, bristletails, firebrats
Orthoptera - Answer-Order of grasshoppers and crickets
Blattoidea,dictyoptera - Answer-Order of cockroaches
Dermaptera - Answer-Order of earwigs
Isoptera - Answer-Order of termites
Hemiptera - Answer-Order of true bugs,bed bugs,boxelder bugs
Siphonaptera - Answer-Order of fleas
Diptera - Answer-Order of flies and mosquitoes
Carries egg for 27 days and drops 1 day before hatching - Answer-German roach
Metamorphosis of ants - Answer-Complete
Metamorphosis of fleas - Answer-Complete
Metamorphosis of roaches - Answer-Gradual
Cuticele - Answer-Non living layer of cells
What class of pesticide is sevin? - Answer-Carbamate
What class of pesticide is orthene - Answer-Organophosphate
What is precor? - Answer-IGR
What does a synergistic do? - Answer-Enhances the activity of another pesticide
,What does a desiccant do? - Answer-Dehydrated the insect to cause death
The brown recluse bite does what? - Answer-Rots flesh
More people are killed by wasps and bees than rattlesnakes, spiders and scorpions -
Answer-True
Ficam will kills pollenators - Answer-True
Metamorphosis of beetles - Answer-Complete
Hours required for certified - Answer-25 hpc, 25 wdo,12 fun
8pc. 8pc. 5pc due every 5 years
Hours required for registered - Answer-8wdo,8hpc,1fum
4 pc. 4pc. 1fum due every 2 years
Signal word warning - Answer-Teaspoon to tablespoon to kill an adult
Total members on structural pest control commission - Answer-Seven
Number of appointed members on spcc board - Answer-4
Halteres - Answer-Pillow like organs that allow flies and mosquitoes to balance
What 2 flies over winter in homes? - Answer-Cluster fly,face fly
Diseases spread by flies and mosquitoes - Answer-Malaria,yellow fever, dengue,
encephalitis, west nile
What 3 flies have sponging lapping mouthparts? - Answer-Fruit fly, house fly, bottle or
blow fly
What 4 flies bite humans? - Answer-Stable, horse, black and deer flies
What 3 flies are found in drains? - Answer-Phorid, fruit, moth flies
Fruit fly - Answer-Found in garbage and fruit
Flesh fly - Answer-Has checkerboard pattern on abdomen
Which fly's larva is parasitic on earthworms? - Answer-Cluster fly
Which fly has 4 stripes on its thorax? - Answer-House fly
, Cone nose bugs - Answer-Hemiptera
House dust mites - Answer-Prefer humid conditions, feed on skin and dander, Most
common allergen to man
Phorid fly - Answer-Larva found in drains, size of an st 1/8"
Chigger - Answer-Larva of common harvest mite
Oriental rat flea - Answer-Transmits the plague
Chagas disease - Answer-Spread by blood suckling cone nose
Lyme disease - Answer-Spread by deer ticks
Scabies - Answer-Caused by itch mites
Rocky Mountain spotted fever - Answer-Rocky Mountain wood tick
Cat flea - Answer-Most common flea
Tick paralysis - Answer-Spread by American dog tick
This mite burrows under the skin - Answer-Itch mite
Stick tight flea - Answer-Attacks poultry
Red coat, cinch or mahogany flat or names for what ectoparasite? - Answer-Bedbug
Found on the public area of humans - Answer-Crab lice
Found on the head and body of humans - Answer-Head and body lice
Bedbugs - Answer-Have foul odor in heavy infestations
Metamorphosis of silverfish - Answer-No metamorphosis
Metamorphosis of dragon and damselflies - Answer-Incomplete
Metamorphosis of termites - Answer-Gradual
Metamorphosis of flies - Answer-Complete
Gradual metamorphosis - Answer-Egg,nymph, adult
Roach glues it's eggs - Answer-Smokey brown
GUIDE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Ommatidia - Answer-Compound insect eyes with many lenses
Porcupine wire - Answer-Used as bird repellant
Ultrasonic pest devices - Answer-Supposedly repels insects
Thysanaura - Answer-Order of silverfish, bristletails, firebrats
Orthoptera - Answer-Order of grasshoppers and crickets
Blattoidea,dictyoptera - Answer-Order of cockroaches
Dermaptera - Answer-Order of earwigs
Isoptera - Answer-Order of termites
Hemiptera - Answer-Order of true bugs,bed bugs,boxelder bugs
Siphonaptera - Answer-Order of fleas
Diptera - Answer-Order of flies and mosquitoes
Carries egg for 27 days and drops 1 day before hatching - Answer-German roach
Metamorphosis of ants - Answer-Complete
Metamorphosis of fleas - Answer-Complete
Metamorphosis of roaches - Answer-Gradual
Cuticele - Answer-Non living layer of cells
What class of pesticide is sevin? - Answer-Carbamate
What class of pesticide is orthene - Answer-Organophosphate
What is precor? - Answer-IGR
What does a synergistic do? - Answer-Enhances the activity of another pesticide
,What does a desiccant do? - Answer-Dehydrated the insect to cause death
The brown recluse bite does what? - Answer-Rots flesh
More people are killed by wasps and bees than rattlesnakes, spiders and scorpions -
Answer-True
Ficam will kills pollenators - Answer-True
Metamorphosis of beetles - Answer-Complete
Hours required for certified - Answer-25 hpc, 25 wdo,12 fun
8pc. 8pc. 5pc due every 5 years
Hours required for registered - Answer-8wdo,8hpc,1fum
4 pc. 4pc. 1fum due every 2 years
Signal word warning - Answer-Teaspoon to tablespoon to kill an adult
Total members on structural pest control commission - Answer-Seven
Number of appointed members on spcc board - Answer-4
Halteres - Answer-Pillow like organs that allow flies and mosquitoes to balance
What 2 flies over winter in homes? - Answer-Cluster fly,face fly
Diseases spread by flies and mosquitoes - Answer-Malaria,yellow fever, dengue,
encephalitis, west nile
What 3 flies have sponging lapping mouthparts? - Answer-Fruit fly, house fly, bottle or
blow fly
What 4 flies bite humans? - Answer-Stable, horse, black and deer flies
What 3 flies are found in drains? - Answer-Phorid, fruit, moth flies
Fruit fly - Answer-Found in garbage and fruit
Flesh fly - Answer-Has checkerboard pattern on abdomen
Which fly's larva is parasitic on earthworms? - Answer-Cluster fly
Which fly has 4 stripes on its thorax? - Answer-House fly
, Cone nose bugs - Answer-Hemiptera
House dust mites - Answer-Prefer humid conditions, feed on skin and dander, Most
common allergen to man
Phorid fly - Answer-Larva found in drains, size of an st 1/8"
Chigger - Answer-Larva of common harvest mite
Oriental rat flea - Answer-Transmits the plague
Chagas disease - Answer-Spread by blood suckling cone nose
Lyme disease - Answer-Spread by deer ticks
Scabies - Answer-Caused by itch mites
Rocky Mountain spotted fever - Answer-Rocky Mountain wood tick
Cat flea - Answer-Most common flea
Tick paralysis - Answer-Spread by American dog tick
This mite burrows under the skin - Answer-Itch mite
Stick tight flea - Answer-Attacks poultry
Red coat, cinch or mahogany flat or names for what ectoparasite? - Answer-Bedbug
Found on the public area of humans - Answer-Crab lice
Found on the head and body of humans - Answer-Head and body lice
Bedbugs - Answer-Have foul odor in heavy infestations
Metamorphosis of silverfish - Answer-No metamorphosis
Metamorphosis of dragon and damselflies - Answer-Incomplete
Metamorphosis of termites - Answer-Gradual
Metamorphosis of flies - Answer-Complete
Gradual metamorphosis - Answer-Egg,nymph, adult
Roach glues it's eggs - Answer-Smokey brown
