CA Branch 3 Practice Test Exam Q's and A's

CA Branch 3 Practice Test
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1. The Black Polycaon are one of the wood destroying True
largest beetles at 1/2 to 1 inch long? True or False

2. Beetles have a complete life cycle? True or False True

3. A Lyctid beetle is a true powderpost beetle? True or True
False

4. Black Polycaons are likely to re-infest? True or False False, they do not re-infest

5. Lyctid beetles attack mostly hardwoods and they do True
re-infest? True or False

6. Lead cable borers attack maple and other hard- True
woods. They will also bore through lead sheathing
around phone and power lines? True or False

7. Name 3 Bostrichidae (False Powderpost Beetles)? Lead Cable Borer, Black Poly-
caon, Bamboo Borer

8. Bamboo borers are very damaging to bamboo furni- True
ture and will re-infest? True or False

9. Deathwatch beetles are known for their mating sig- Strike their head against the
nal. How do they do that? surface they are standing on

10. Lead Cable Borers do not re-infest? True or False False, they do re-infest

11. Deathwatch beetles attack oak and hardwoods and True
will re-infest? True or False

12. Name two Anobiidae (false powderpost beetles? Deathwatch, Furniture Bee-
tle

13.


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Furniture beetles will attack coniferous and hard- False, prefers old woods to
woods and prefer new wood instead of old? True or new lumber
False

14. If a home has a problem with flat headed borers, you False, they do not re-infest
should fumigate the home because they are likely to
reinfest? True or False

15. New house borers prefer old seasoned wood? True False, they attack green lum-
or False ber, likes pines, firs and es-
pecially Douglas fir. Will bore
through hardwoods, plaster,
comp. roofing and linoleum
to emerge. May be brought
in with new lumber and fire-
wood.

16. Old house borers prefer new/fresh wood? True or False, attacks seasoned
False wood. Prefers pine, fir and
spruce. Will attack rustic fur-
niture.

17. Bark beetles don't really bore through bark to star False, they bore through
their tunnels? True or False bark and work between bark
and sapwood and often
leave a scoring mark. Eggs
are laid in their tunnels.

18. If you see wood damaged by a new house borer, it False, do not re-infest and
will need to be treated because they will re-infest? they cannot survive in sea-
True or False soned wood.

19. Name a Buprestidae Beetle? Flat Headed Borer


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20. What does frass from a lyctid beetle look like? Talcum powder-like, packed
in channels but will fall freely
from emergence holes.

21. Flat headed borer emergence holes are oval shaped True
and about 3/8 inch wide? True or False

22. Bark beetles are a serious pest of our forest but may True
be brought in with firewood? True or False

23. New house borers may bore through hardwoods, True
plaster, composition roofing and linoleum to emerge
but they do not require treatment because they will
not re-infest? True or False

24. Bark beetles do no re-infest? True or False True

25. Black polycaon emergence holes that are about 1/4 True
inch in diameter? True or False

26. You can tell the difference between a true powder- True
post and false powderpost beetle's frass because
only a true powderpost beetle has a fine "face-pow-
der" like consistency? True or False

27. Lyctid beetle emergence holes are about 1/32nd to True
1/16th inch in diameter? True or False

28. Will a bamboo borer re-infest? True or False True

29. Furniture beetle emergence holes are about 1/16th True
to 1/8th inch in diameter and they will re-infest? True
or False