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Aptive-CA Field Rep Practice Exam 2 Questions
with Detailed Verified Answers for Accuracy
The powder post beetle makes its tunnels across the grain or
parallel?
✓✓ Parallel
(T/F) Indian meal moths hind wings are coppery
✓✓ False
What are the wing characteristics of an Indian Meal Moth?
✓✓ Coppery Front Wings
What is the best way to treat on rainy days or when drizzling?
✓✓ Dust
What cockroach, other than American cockroach, flies in
California?
✓✓ Brown Banded
The average number of eggs a female brown banded cockroach
produces in each egg capsule, or oothecas, is?
✓✓ 10-15
How many egg capsules can a German cockroach drop in a
lifetime?
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✓✓ 4-8
How many eggs are in a brown banded cockroach egg capsule?
✓✓ 14-16
How many eggs for a German Roach?
✓✓ 30-40
(T/F) American roaches can be found in hospitals?
✓✓ True
Where do you treat German Cockroaches?
✓✓ Cabinets, corners, and crevices
What diseases do roaches carry?
✓✓ E. coli and Salmonella
(T/F) Zoos are treated like hospitals
✓✓ True
Is it legal to dump empty pesticide bottles in trash cans behind
grocery stores?
✓✓ Yes, if the label has been stripped and the top broken off
aersol cans, or bottles are triple rinsed, cut and crushed.
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Who regulates pesticides in transportation?
✓✓ Department of Transportation
Which California ant has the biggest crater?
✓✓ Western Harvester Ant
(T/F) Most common household pest in California is the
Argentine Ant.
✓✓ True
(T/F) The Odorous house ant does not defend its colonies with
odor/sting.
✓✓ False
(T/F) Pharaoh, pavement, argentine, thief ants are commonly
controlled with baits.
✓✓ True
(T/F) Leaf cutter ants frequently lay their eggs in feces.
✓✓ True
How do you get a colony of odorous ants out of the wall?
✓✓ Use of boric acid dust in voids along with barrier
treatments
What ant is generally misidentified with the argentine ant?
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✓✓ Odorous House Ant
When a treatment for ants fails it is because:
✓✓ misidentified ant, incorrect dose of pesticide, and treated
incorrect areas
What ants kill of queen for maximum mating?
✓✓ Red Imported Fire Ant
At what stage are the most ants produced?
✓✓ Egg stage
How many segments in a Pharaoh Ant Antenna?
✓✓ 12
Which Ants have one node?
✓✓ Carpenter, Argentine, Field, and Crazy
Which ants have two nodes?
✓✓ Pavement, Pharaoh, and Thief
What ant has grooves on its head?
✓✓ Pavement Ant
What ant has a smooth thorax?
Aptive-CA Field Rep Practice Exam 2 Questions
with Detailed Verified Answers for Accuracy
The powder post beetle makes its tunnels across the grain or
parallel?
✓✓ Parallel
(T/F) Indian meal moths hind wings are coppery
✓✓ False
What are the wing characteristics of an Indian Meal Moth?
✓✓ Coppery Front Wings
What is the best way to treat on rainy days or when drizzling?
✓✓ Dust
What cockroach, other than American cockroach, flies in
California?
✓✓ Brown Banded
The average number of eggs a female brown banded cockroach
produces in each egg capsule, or oothecas, is?
✓✓ 10-15
How many egg capsules can a German cockroach drop in a
lifetime?
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✓✓ 4-8
How many eggs are in a brown banded cockroach egg capsule?
✓✓ 14-16
How many eggs for a German Roach?
✓✓ 30-40
(T/F) American roaches can be found in hospitals?
✓✓ True
Where do you treat German Cockroaches?
✓✓ Cabinets, corners, and crevices
What diseases do roaches carry?
✓✓ E. coli and Salmonella
(T/F) Zoos are treated like hospitals
✓✓ True
Is it legal to dump empty pesticide bottles in trash cans behind
grocery stores?
✓✓ Yes, if the label has been stripped and the top broken off
aersol cans, or bottles are triple rinsed, cut and crushed.
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
Who regulates pesticides in transportation?
✓✓ Department of Transportation
Which California ant has the biggest crater?
✓✓ Western Harvester Ant
(T/F) Most common household pest in California is the
Argentine Ant.
✓✓ True
(T/F) The Odorous house ant does not defend its colonies with
odor/sting.
✓✓ False
(T/F) Pharaoh, pavement, argentine, thief ants are commonly
controlled with baits.
✓✓ True
(T/F) Leaf cutter ants frequently lay their eggs in feces.
✓✓ True
How do you get a colony of odorous ants out of the wall?
✓✓ Use of boric acid dust in voids along with barrier
treatments
What ant is generally misidentified with the argentine ant?
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
✓✓ Odorous House Ant
When a treatment for ants fails it is because:
✓✓ misidentified ant, incorrect dose of pesticide, and treated
incorrect areas
What ants kill of queen for maximum mating?
✓✓ Red Imported Fire Ant
At what stage are the most ants produced?
✓✓ Egg stage
How many segments in a Pharaoh Ant Antenna?
✓✓ 12
Which Ants have one node?
✓✓ Carpenter, Argentine, Field, and Crazy
Which ants have two nodes?
✓✓ Pavement, Pharaoh, and Thief
What ant has grooves on its head?
✓✓ Pavement Ant
What ant has a smooth thorax?
