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1. Common Structural Insects - ANSWER ✔ Insects typically found in
buildings, e.g., cockroaches.
2. Cockroaches - ANSWER ✔ Common household pests, including German
and Oriental.
3. Pavement Ants - ANSWER ✔ Ants often found in urban areas, nesting in
soil.
4. Yellow-jackets - ANSWER ✔ Aggressive wasps that can invade homes.
5. Mud Dauber Wasps - ANSWER ✔ Wasps that build mud nests, often
solitary.
6. Bald-faced Hornet - ANSWER ✔ Black and white wasp, known for
aggressive behavior.
7. Brown Banded Cockroach - ANSWER ✔ Cockroach species with
distinctive brown bands.
,8. Giant European Hornet - ANSWER ✔ Large hornet species, can be
aggressive.
9. Stored Product Pests - ANSWER ✔ Insects infesting stored food products,
e.g., beetles.
10.Indian Meal Moth - ANSWER ✔ Common pest of stored grains and cereals.
11.Bedbugs - ANSWER ✔ Blood-feeding pests, often found in bedding.
12.Flashlight - ANSWER ✔ Viewing pests in their hiding places.
13.Flushing Agent - ANSWER ✔ Determining if pests are present in areas
physically impossible see.
14.Spraying is always considered essential to an effective structural pest
management program. - ANSWER ✔ False
15.Backpack sprayer - ANSWER ✔ Has a 2- to 5-gallon tank capacity and is
pressurized by priming a piston pump.
16.Power sprayer - ANSWER ✔ Uses a relatively large tank to spray building
perimeters and lawns
,17.Hand-held sprayer - ANSWER ✔ Most likely sprayer to select for use
indoors in smaller areas; pest control in cracks and crevices; applying
flushing agents.
18.Backpack sprayer - ANSWER ✔ Most likely sprayer to select for treating
larger indoor areas (warehouses, commerical food facilities); outside, it is
used on lawns, along fences, and around building perimeters.
19.Hand-held sprayer - ANSWER ✔ Produces two different flow patterns: pin-
stream and flat-fan.
20.Hand-held sprayer Which type of nozzle spray pattern delivers the largest
amount of spray per minute at 20 psi? - ANSWER ✔ Coarse fan, 50 degrees
21.What is the advantage of using a crack and crevice extension tube on a
nozzle? - ANSWER ✔ It allows crack and crevice application with little
spilling or splashing.
22.High pressure must be maintained in hand-held sprayers to be effective. -
ANSWER ✔ False
23.New sprayers are well calibrated until they have been used one season. -
ANSWER ✔ False
Define a pest in simple terms - ANSWER ✔ An unwanted organism
24.Pest populations are part of an ecosystem. What following elements are
included in an ecosystem?
A. Populations and a community
B. A community and biological and physical supports
, C. Populations and biological and physical supports
D. Populations, a community, and biological and physical supports -
ANSWER ✔ D
25.In infested apartments, pest infestations are evenly distributed?
A. True
B. False - ANSWER ✔ B
26.In a simple sequence of methods, which of the following is the first method
or activity a pest control technician should do?
A. Pesticide Application
B. Habitat alteration
C. Inspection
D. Follow up - ANSWER ✔ C
27.Which of the following are not integrated pest management components,
goals or activities:
A. Monitoring
B. Pesticide Application
C. Preventative Spraying
D. Recordkeeping
E. Total Pest Elimination - ANSWER ✔ C and E
The pest management style of pest control, more than the other styles, emphasizes:
A. Safe Pesticide application
B. The reduction of pests to a tolerable number
C. Inspection
D. Client Communication - ANSWER ✔ B