Texas Certified Applicator Exam prep
Questions with Correct Answers
100% Verified Graded A+
1. What is usually the cause when liquid flows into pump of a compressed sprayer and
shoots out the handle?**
Answer: Worn Check Valve
2. Ants with one node?*
Answer: Carpenter, crazy, Rasberry Crazy, False Honey, Rover, Argentine, Odorous, ghost,
pyramid
3. Ants with 2 nodes?*
Answer: Fire, Thief, Pavement, Acrobat, Pharaoh, Little black, Harvester, Big Headed,
Leaf cutter, Acacia, elongated twig
4. Adult dull gray with 4 stripes on thorax?**
Answer: House fly
5. Other than house flies what species of flys are common the residential
environments.*
Answer: Blue blow, Green blow, stable, Fruit flies, phorid, fungus gnats, moth flies
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,6. Four wings 3/4 inch wing spread fore wings are grey near body reddish at tips*
Answer: Indian meal moths
7. Species of wasp that build home above and below ground*
Answer: Yellow jacket
8. To reduce contact with scorpions eliminate...?*
Answer: Bricks, stones, wood, trash and other potential harborage points.
9. Insect 3/4 inch yellowish brown with powerful hind legs.*
Answer: The house/ field cricket
10. Ants pose particular risk in hospitals because?**
Answer: Carry diseases and or- ganisms on legs and body
11. The four distinct stages of mosquitoes.*
Answer: Egg, larva, pupa and adult
12. Species of insect primary vector of yellow fever and dengue?**
Answer: Aedes aegypti or Asian Tiger mosquitoes
13. Lone star tick (amblyomma) primary vector of what diseases?
Answer: Mono cystic Ehrilichiosis and Southern Tick assisted rash illness
14. American Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis) is the primary vector of what diseases?
Answer: Rocky Mountain fever and tuleremia anaplasmosis
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, 15. Black Legged Deer Tick is the primary vector of what disease
Answer: Spirochete (Lyme disease)
16. Court ruling " " usually involves cases where
children are attracted to application equipment and pesticide left unattended by
applicators.*
Answer: Attractive Nuisance
17. Rats have a home range of ?*
Answer: 100ft - 150ft
18. Mice have a home range of ?
Answer: 10ft-30ft
19. The most successful solutions or methods for achieving a rat free environ- ment?*
Answer: Rat Proofing
20. Describe droppings of Norway rat*
Answer: 3/4 inch capsule shape
21. Food handling establishments are?**
Answer: Areas or places other than a private resident in which food is prepared.
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Questions with Correct Answers
100% Verified Graded A+
1. What is usually the cause when liquid flows into pump of a compressed sprayer and
shoots out the handle?**
Answer: Worn Check Valve
2. Ants with one node?*
Answer: Carpenter, crazy, Rasberry Crazy, False Honey, Rover, Argentine, Odorous, ghost,
pyramid
3. Ants with 2 nodes?*
Answer: Fire, Thief, Pavement, Acrobat, Pharaoh, Little black, Harvester, Big Headed,
Leaf cutter, Acacia, elongated twig
4. Adult dull gray with 4 stripes on thorax?**
Answer: House fly
5. Other than house flies what species of flys are common the residential
environments.*
Answer: Blue blow, Green blow, stable, Fruit flies, phorid, fungus gnats, moth flies
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,6. Four wings 3/4 inch wing spread fore wings are grey near body reddish at tips*
Answer: Indian meal moths
7. Species of wasp that build home above and below ground*
Answer: Yellow jacket
8. To reduce contact with scorpions eliminate...?*
Answer: Bricks, stones, wood, trash and other potential harborage points.
9. Insect 3/4 inch yellowish brown with powerful hind legs.*
Answer: The house/ field cricket
10. Ants pose particular risk in hospitals because?**
Answer: Carry diseases and or- ganisms on legs and body
11. The four distinct stages of mosquitoes.*
Answer: Egg, larva, pupa and adult
12. Species of insect primary vector of yellow fever and dengue?**
Answer: Aedes aegypti or Asian Tiger mosquitoes
13. Lone star tick (amblyomma) primary vector of what diseases?
Answer: Mono cystic Ehrilichiosis and Southern Tick assisted rash illness
14. American Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis) is the primary vector of what diseases?
Answer: Rocky Mountain fever and tuleremia anaplasmosis
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, 15. Black Legged Deer Tick is the primary vector of what disease
Answer: Spirochete (Lyme disease)
16. Court ruling " " usually involves cases where
children are attracted to application equipment and pesticide left unattended by
applicators.*
Answer: Attractive Nuisance
17. Rats have a home range of ?*
Answer: 100ft - 150ft
18. Mice have a home range of ?
Answer: 10ft-30ft
19. The most successful solutions or methods for achieving a rat free environ- ment?*
Answer: Rat Proofing
20. Describe droppings of Norway rat*
Answer: 3/4 inch capsule shape
21. Food handling establishments are?**
Answer: Areas or places other than a private resident in which food is prepared.
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