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Illinois General Standards Pesticide Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Correct Answers
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Q: Pest
Ans: any insect, mite, rodent, weed, disease etc that is injurious to the health of
humans, animals, plants, or the environment
Q: Goal of IPM
Ans: keep pests below economic and aesthetic injury level, avoid adverse effects
Exampromax - Stuvia US
on humans, wildlife, environment
Q: economic injury level
Ans: breakeven point at which cost of pest control equals revenue loss caused by
pest
Q: economic threshold level
Ans: number of pests per plant or amount of damage to plant at which control
measures should begin
Q: aesthetic injury level
Ans: number of pests that might cause enough damage to the appearance of a
plant to warrant cost of control - might vary
Q: key to successful IPM
Ans: monitoring pest pop and plant conditions
Q: cultural control
Ans: improve crop health
Q: mechanical control
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Ans: physical pest elimination
Q: biological control
Ans: living organisms reduce pests
Q: chemical control
Ans: chemical agents reduce pests
Q: preventative control
Ans: prevent entry and spread
Q: pesticide failure
Exampromax - Stuvia US
Ans: wrong type, wrong pest stage, wrong area, pest resistance
Q: insects
Ans: exoskeleton, 3 pairs jointed legs, 3 body region
Q: insect body regions
Ans: head, thorax, abdomen
Q: incomplete development
Ans: 3 life stages - eggs, nymph, adult
Q: complete development
Ans: 4 life stages - egg, larvae, pupae, adult
Q: mites
Ans: spider-like, 4 pairs of legs
Q: spiders
Ans: 4 pairs of legs, 2 body regions
Illinois General Standards Pesticide Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Correct Answers
Already Graded A+
Q: Pest
Ans: any insect, mite, rodent, weed, disease etc that is injurious to the health of
humans, animals, plants, or the environment
Q: Goal of IPM
Ans: keep pests below economic and aesthetic injury level, avoid adverse effects
Exampromax - Stuvia US
on humans, wildlife, environment
Q: economic injury level
Ans: breakeven point at which cost of pest control equals revenue loss caused by
pest
Q: economic threshold level
Ans: number of pests per plant or amount of damage to plant at which control
measures should begin
Q: aesthetic injury level
Ans: number of pests that might cause enough damage to the appearance of a
plant to warrant cost of control - might vary
Q: key to successful IPM
Ans: monitoring pest pop and plant conditions
Q: cultural control
Ans: improve crop health
Q: mechanical control
, 2 Exampromax - Stuvia US
Ans: physical pest elimination
Q: biological control
Ans: living organisms reduce pests
Q: chemical control
Ans: chemical agents reduce pests
Q: preventative control
Ans: prevent entry and spread
Q: pesticide failure
Exampromax - Stuvia US
Ans: wrong type, wrong pest stage, wrong area, pest resistance
Q: insects
Ans: exoskeleton, 3 pairs jointed legs, 3 body region
Q: insect body regions
Ans: head, thorax, abdomen
Q: incomplete development
Ans: 3 life stages - eggs, nymph, adult
Q: complete development
Ans: 4 life stages - egg, larvae, pupae, adult
Q: mites
Ans: spider-like, 4 pairs of legs
Q: spiders
Ans: 4 pairs of legs, 2 body regions
