Clemson Sc Pesticide Application Review Questions Exam With Correct Answers,2025.A+Graded.

Clemson Sc Pesticide Application Review Questions Exam
With Correct Answers,2025.A+Graded.




What is the first thing you should do when you detect the presence of a pest that you think you may need to
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control? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Identify the pest to be sure you know exactly what the problem is
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How can pest identification help you develop a good pest control strategy? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔
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Identification of the pest allows you to determine basic information about it, including its life cycle and the time
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that it is most susceptible to being controlled
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Explain the differences between continuous pests, sporadic pests, and potential pests: - CORRECT ANSWER✔
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✔continuous pests are nearly always present and require regular control; sporadic pests are migratory,
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cyclical, or other occasional pests that require control once in a while, but not on a regular basis; potential pests
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are organisms that are not pests under normal conditions, but can become pests and require control in certain
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circumstances.
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, Explain what is meant by prevention, suppression, and eradication of pests. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔
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Prevention is keeping a pest from becoming a problem; suppression is reducing pest numbers or damage to an
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acceptable level; eradication is destroying an entire pest population
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What is a threshold? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Thresholds are the levels of pest populations at which you must
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take pest control action to prevent unacceptable damage or injury.
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Why should you consider thresholds when you develop a pest control strategy? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Use
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of threshold information can improve your pest control strategy by helping you make a decision about when to
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begin control tactics
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Describe pest monitoring and explain how it can be important to pest control strategy: - CORRECT ANSWER✔
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✔monitoring is checking or scouting for pests in an area to determine what pests are present, how many of n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n




each kind of pest are in the area, and how much damage they are causing. Monitoring is important to many
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pest control strategies, because it helps determine if the threshold has been reached and whether control
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measures have been effective.
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Define "integrated pest management" IPM - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Integrated pest management is the
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combining of appropriate pest control tactics into a single plan to reduce pests and their damage to an
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acceptable level.
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IPM control tactics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔host resistance, biological control, cultural control, mechanical
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control, sanitation, and chemical (pesticide) control
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You applied a pesticide, but it did not control the pest. Name three reasons why your control effort might have
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failed: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The failure of the pesticide to control the pest might have been caused by pest
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resistance, choosing the wrong pesticide, misidentifying the pest, applying the wrong amount, or applying the
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pesticide incorrectly.
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What can you do to keep the pests you are trying to control from becoming resistant to the pesticides you use? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Pest resistance can be reduced by using integrated pest management and rotating
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the types of pesticides used.
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