Texas Pest Control Category Practice Test
Questions with Correct Answers
100% Verified Graded A+
1. Oriental Cockroach
Answer: A medium to large sized glossy dark brown to black cock- roach with wings shorter
than the abdomen.
2. Flour Beetles
Answer: Insects that damage stored food by chewing in both the adult and larval stage.
3. Indian Meal Moth
Answer: The adult insect that has wings and can fly
4. Red Flour Beetle
Answer: The beetle that is elongated, flat, shiny reddish brown, about 1/8 inch long, can
fly, and has three antennal segments enlarged abruptly into a club.
5. Insects with complete metamorphosis go through four life stages.
Answer: Egg, larvae, pupae, adult
6. Infested flour shoes large amount of webbing with larvae actively feeding. Small,
reddish-gray moths are the Adult form. Larvae are not spotted.
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,Answer: Indian Meal Moth
7. Ground Beetles prey on
Answer: Other Insects
8. When considering pest management of house flies and related species of flies,
consider chemical control only after you have established a sound program including.
Answer: Sanitation & Exclusion
9. German Cockroaches & Asian cockroaches can be distinguished from one another by...
Answer: Habitat & flight
10. T or F The granary weevil attacks grain before harvest and storage
Answer: True
11. T or F Smoky brown cockroaches prefer an outside habitat but move indoors
during seasonal migration and adverse weather conditions..
Answer: True
12. T or F The larvae of the Angoumois grain moth fedd on flour
Answer: False
13. T or F The larval stage of a fly is called a maggot
Answer: True
14. T or F The larvae of the house fly develop in animal waste or rotting fruits and
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, vegetables.
Answer: True
15. T or F Dermestid beetles can attack and destroy pantry materials, such as grain and
flour, as well as on woolens, furs, and feathers.
Answer: True
16. What does the house dust mite feed on?
Answer: Shed Skin Scales
17. House dust mites are linked to and often thought to be the cause of what disease?
Answer: Asthma
18. Clover Mites Cause most of their damage by?
Answer: Staining Walls and furniture when crushed
19. Earwigs have a distinctive pincer-like structure on the end of the abdomen T or F
Answer: True
20. Centipedes have two paid of legs per body segment, while millipedes have one pair of
legs per body segment T or F
Answer: False
21. Ants belong to what insect family?
Answer: Formicidae
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Questions with Correct Answers
100% Verified Graded A+
1. Oriental Cockroach
Answer: A medium to large sized glossy dark brown to black cock- roach with wings shorter
than the abdomen.
2. Flour Beetles
Answer: Insects that damage stored food by chewing in both the adult and larval stage.
3. Indian Meal Moth
Answer: The adult insect that has wings and can fly
4. Red Flour Beetle
Answer: The beetle that is elongated, flat, shiny reddish brown, about 1/8 inch long, can
fly, and has three antennal segments enlarged abruptly into a club.
5. Insects with complete metamorphosis go through four life stages.
Answer: Egg, larvae, pupae, adult
6. Infested flour shoes large amount of webbing with larvae actively feeding. Small,
reddish-gray moths are the Adult form. Larvae are not spotted.
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,Answer: Indian Meal Moth
7. Ground Beetles prey on
Answer: Other Insects
8. When considering pest management of house flies and related species of flies,
consider chemical control only after you have established a sound program including.
Answer: Sanitation & Exclusion
9. German Cockroaches & Asian cockroaches can be distinguished from one another by...
Answer: Habitat & flight
10. T or F The granary weevil attacks grain before harvest and storage
Answer: True
11. T or F Smoky brown cockroaches prefer an outside habitat but move indoors
during seasonal migration and adverse weather conditions..
Answer: True
12. T or F The larvae of the Angoumois grain moth fedd on flour
Answer: False
13. T or F The larval stage of a fly is called a maggot
Answer: True
14. T or F The larvae of the house fly develop in animal waste or rotting fruits and
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, vegetables.
Answer: True
15. T or F Dermestid beetles can attack and destroy pantry materials, such as grain and
flour, as well as on woolens, furs, and feathers.
Answer: True
16. What does the house dust mite feed on?
Answer: Shed Skin Scales
17. House dust mites are linked to and often thought to be the cause of what disease?
Answer: Asthma
18. Clover Mites Cause most of their damage by?
Answer: Staining Walls and furniture when crushed
19. Earwigs have a distinctive pincer-like structure on the end of the abdomen T or F
Answer: True
20. Centipedes have two paid of legs per body segment, while millipedes have one pair of
legs per body segment T or F
Answer: False
21. Ants belong to what insect family?
Answer: Formicidae
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