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QAL "B" License-Landscape Maintenance
Pest Control Actual Exam 2025 QAC
Category B Landscape Maintenance Exam
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Four ways that weeds compete with the desirable plants: - Answer- water, nutrients, light, reduced visual beauty Name six pests to landscape (besides weeds) - Answer-insects, mites, fungi, bacteria, viruses, & nematodes Pests that are vertebrates: - Answer-rodents that make burrows, mounds, & chew on roots, bark, & leaves Four main groups of landscape pests: - Answer-Weeds, invertebrates, vertebrates, plant pathogens Weeds are classified as: - Answer-undesirable plants Invertebrate pests are: - Answer-insects, spiders, mites, nematodes, snails, slugs Vertebrate pests are: - Answer-rodents, other mammals, birds Plant pathogens are: - Answer-bacteria, viruses, fungi, other microorganisms Ways that weeds reproduce: (2) - Answer-many seeds (dormant for up to 20 years), vegetative structures (stolons, rhizomes, tubers),
Two main classifications of weeds: - Answer-dicots & monocots Definition of Dicot: - Answer-Broadleaves, produces two seedling leaves (cotyledons) Parasitic Dicots: (2) - Answer-Mistletoe and dodder Invertebrates are: - Answer-animals without backbones Arthropods: - Answer-"Jointed foot" external skeleton and jointed body parts (insects, spiders, mites, and their relatives) Biotic Disease Factors: - Answer-Pathogens that are spread form one host to another. Three landscape biotic pathogens: - Answer-bacteria, fungi, & viruses Fungi characteristics: - Answer-Can live off both living and dead plant tissue Fungi vegetative body is called: - Answer-Mycelium Major form of fungal reproduction: - Answer-Spores Symptoms of Fungi disease: (6) - Answer-Powdery mildew, downy mildew, root & stem rot, sooty mold, slime molds How are fungi spread? (8-9) - Answer-Wind, rain, irrigation water, propagation (grafting and pollenization, seeds, insects, people, equipment, cultural practices
Class: Insecta / Order: Orthopterans - Answer-Crickets, grasshoppers, locusts, katydids Class: Insecta / Order: Dermaptera - Answer-Earwigs (chewing mouthparts) Class: Insecta / Order: Thysanoptera - Answer-Thrips (sucking, rasping mouthparts) Beneficial: eats aphids & mites Class: Insecta / Order: Heteroptera - Answer-(True Bugs) Bed Bugs, plant bugs, damsel bugs, Assasin bugs Class: Insecta / Order: Homopterans - Answer-Aphids, Psyllids, Leafhoppers, cicadas, whiteflies, mealybugs, scales, phylloxeras, spittlebugs, treehoppers (All have piercing-sucking mouth parts) Class:Insecta / Order: Coleoptera - Answer-Beetles, weevils, wood borers (chewing mouth parts) (Some beetles prey on other insects) Class: Insecta / Order: Lepidoptera - Answer-Butterflies, moths, skippers Class: Insecta / Order: Hymenopterans - Answer-Bees, Wasps, ants, sawflies, horntails Perennial weeds are difficult to control because... - Answer-They can reproduce from organs like rhizomes, stolons, tubers
Insect order known to transmit plant disease - Answer-Thysanoptera (Thrips) Insect order of pests to living plants - Answer-Heteroptera (true bugs) Immature stages of insects - Answer-Instars Insect order that suck juices from plant cells - Answer-Homoptera (aphids and whiteflies) Part of plant nematodes often attack - Answer-Roots & underground parts Plant disorder that cannot be transmitted between plants - Answer- Abiotic problems Ant insect order - Answer-Hymenoptera Insects with chewing mouthparts - Answer-Caterpillars What kind of insect are mites - Answer-arthropods Insects that cause leaf stippling - Answer-Mites Life stages of complete metamorphosis - Answer-egg, larva, pupa, adult Complete elimination of pest species - Answer-eradication Pests that cause damage on a regular basis - Answer-Key Pests
Mode of action - Answer-The way a pesticide controls a target organism Incompatible mixtures - Answer-causes clumping or clogging of nozzles Pesticide hazard - Answer-potential to cause injury Pesticides active in the environment for long periods - Answer- persistent Federal laws regulating manufacturing, sale, transportation and use of pesticides are administered by - Answer-US EPA Statement of practical treatment - Answer-first aid instructions Allowable deviation from label directions - Answer-applying lower rate than specified Required time to keep pesticide use records - Answer-2 years QAC in category B allows people to - Answer-use or supervise use of general or restricted use pesticides in turf, landscape, and interiorscape settings Pest control business license holders must retain use records for - Answer-2 years Maintenance gardener pest control category - Answer-allows use of general use and restricted use pesticides incidental to landscape business
When is pest control business license not required - Answer- performing pest control incidental to new construction When performing pest control in landscape maintenance settings, you must give prior notice to - Answer-property owners or operators before applying pesticide Continuing education requirement for QAC - Answer-20 hours every 2 years Most common route of pesticide exposure on workers - Answer-dermal (skin) Formulation with greatest potential for dermal absorption - Answer-Oil- soluble formulations Factors affecting soil-leaching ability of pesticides - Answer-chemical nature of pesticide, soil type, pesticide persistence Beneficials - Answer-insect predators and pollinators Most important factor in drift - Answer-wind or air movement factors contributing to phytotoxicity problem when spraying plants - Answer-temperature and humidity during application PPE requirements are found - Answer-on the label PPE should be cleaned how often - Answer-after use Physical properties section of MSDS informs about - Answer-boiling, melting, and freezing points
Unknowing application of a pesticide on a site not on the label - Answer-Accidental misapplication Intentional Misapplication - Answer-intentional use of pesticide on unregistered site or intentional use inconsistent with label requirements Negligent application - Answer-improper calibration, use or disposal of pesticides Factor influencing pesticide persistence - Answer-formulation type Spot treatments are most effective when pest infestations... - Answer- are just starting Adjuvant to enhance uptake by target pest - Answer-surfactant Porous soil, high in organic matter will likely... - Answer-decrease the amount of AI available for control Increasing nozzle orifice size will produce - Answer-Larger droplets pressure drops on sprayers indicate - Answer-pump is worn Four factors to measure in calibration - Answer-swath width, travel speed, tank capacity, and output rate advantage of using a ready to use (RTA) formulation - Answer-no mixing required herbicide application equipment with least drift - Answer-wick applicator
nozzle material best resisting abrasion - Answer-tungsten or ceramic, then stainless Pesticide fate - Answer-what happens to pesticides after application Soil type with low risk of runoff - Answer-sandy soils Pesticide type likely to runoff with water - Answer-persistent pesticides Potential for leaching is increased by - Answer-rainfall Factor making a plant at high risk of phytotoxicity - Answer-water stressed Photodecomposition - Answer-chemical breakdown caused by exposure to light Exclusionary tactic in interiorscape - Answer-using pest-free soils and plants Selective pruning is a pest management method by - Answer-removing diseased parts of plants Provide facility managers with ___________ before applying pesticides - Answer-MSDS and restricted-entry interval Major issues of pesticide fate in interiorscapes include - Answer-drift and residues When properly applied, _____________ formulations have the lowest risk - Answer-granules
