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A TARF must be completed after: - ✔️ ✔️ A WDIIR, post construction treatment, pre construction treatment and final grade treatment (completed within 1 year)
Active ingredient: - ✔️ ✔️ Portion of the chemical that Controls the pest
Ambrosia beetles: - ✔️ ✔️ Breed only in sound recently harvested host material with high moisture content
Application Goals: - ✔️ ✔️ Complete control of target pest
Arizona has 3 types of termites that are of Economic concern, they are? - ✔️ ✔️ Subterranean, drywood and dampwood
Assign WDIIR a: - ✔️ ✔️ Number and file on consecutive order
Bark and timber beetles: - ✔️ ✔️ Produce larva that feed on spores produced by fungus, they also cause staining.
Brown rot: - ✔️ ✔️ Called dry rot and is the most damaging
Carpenter ants: - ✔️ ✔️ Build their nests in dry wood, they DO NOT consume the wood
Carpenter bees: - ✔️ ✔️ Build about a 1/2 inch perfectly round hole and nest, they prefer softer wood
Certifications expire: - ✔️ ✔️ -May 31st
- 30 day grace period until June 30th with CEU's and late fees
- Need 6 hours per year or 12 hours for 2 years of CEU's and fees for CA
- need 12 hours per year or 24 hours for 2 years of CEU's and fees for CQA and QP
3 basic castes - ✔️ ✔️ Reproductive, Workers and Soldiers
A crawl space is innaccessible if it is smaller than _____ - ✔️ ✔️ 24 inches
A supplemental must be sent to the business office within: - ✔️ ✔️ 7 days
A supplemental report must be completed by: - ✔️ ✔️ Original business licensee
A supplemental report must be completed within: - ✔️ ✔️ 7 days
A supplemental report must be prepared within: - ✔️ ✔️ 30 days
ANY OF THE ABOVE NOT MET AND THE APPLICATOR MUST RETEST
Drywood application goals: - ✔️ ✔️ Destroy termites and nests inside with Dusts, spot treatment, fumigation, tarp and gas the structure, correct moisture problem
Drywood termites: - ✔️ ✔️ Square head and ridges on mandibles, they also eat across the grain of the wood.
During swarming and mating, Alates tend to be: - ✔️ ✔️ Easy prey
Eastern subterranean - ✔️ ✔️ Are found mostly in West texas, new mexico and arizona
Excessice cellulose debris: - ✔️ ✔️ (Located in box 16) Debris of rakebable size or larger, wood chips in excess of 1 cubic foot, wood that is abbuting the structure or that is more than 6 inches from, form boards remaning in concrete, tree stumps embedded in footings.
Excessive moisture: - ✔️ ✔️ (Located in box 18) standing water, plumbing leaks
Exterior examination, probing and sounding of the interior, attic inspection, crawl space inspection and garage inspection; - ✔️ ✔️ Inspection Procedures
Faulty grade: - ✔️ ✔️ (Located in box 17) Sloped drain toward house, stucco, floor level and wood siding all below grade
Final grade must be completed within: - ✔️ ✔️ One year (12 months)
Flat head wood borer: - ✔️ ✔️ Metallic wood borer larva
For vertical barriers, how many gallons per how many linear feet should be used when applying termiticide? - ✔️ ✔️ 4 gallons per 10 linear feet for vertical barriers
Formosan subterranean - ✔️ ✔️ Not common in arizona, does significant damage
Fungi can cause: - ✔️ ✔️ Black mold, sap wood stains, wood decay
Groundwater - ✔️ ✔️ Never use more than labeled rate, to best protect groundwater dispose of containers correctly
Pre treatment rules: - ✔️ ✔️ Primary slab treatment is official date. Incomplete treatments should be tagged as such. Treatment of all Horizontal barriers required prior to pour of all slabs under roof. Vertical barriers required in critical areas, stem wall abutting slabs, tire stops, pipes, patios and porches. OPM required final grades be done within 12 months of the pre treat.
Pre treatment tagging rules - ✔️ ✔️ Tags should be promptly and securely affixed at site immediately after completion of treatment. Business and license number, date of application and time(s), chemical, strength and gallons used for both the linear and square footage treated. Signature and license number of applicator. Indicate
Pre-termite treatment application: - ✔️ ✔️ 1 gallon per 10 square feet for horizontal barriers only
Precautionary statement: - ✔️ ✔️ Spells out the hazards associated with improper use, pesticides, PPE, accidental spills
Re-infesting, wood boring beetles, attack what kind of wood? - ✔️ ✔️ They do excessive damage to hard woods
Records must be maintained and held for: - ✔️ ✔️ 3 years
Reproductive castes: - ✔️ ✔️ Alate, aid in egg laying
Round head wood borer: - ✔️ ✔️ Long horned beetle larva
S.T.P.P. - ✔️ ✔️ (S)stem wall--(T)tire stop--(P)plumbing--(P)patios/porches
Slab: - ✔️ ✔️ Concrete floor of structure (floating, supported, monolithic, post-tension)
Soft rot: - ✔️ ✔️ Attack green water saturated wood
Soldier castes: - ✔️ ✔️ Sterile adults that defend the colony. They do not digest wood and are blind.
Square feet: - ✔️ ✔️ Total square feet of floor of structure
Stem wall: - ✔️ ✔️ Foundation
Stem walls, tire stops, plumbing, porches and patios - ✔️ ✔️ Are all key areas when applying termiticide
Subterranean application goals: - ✔️ ✔️ Establish a chemical barrier between the structure and the soil and eliminate the colony with bait
Subterranean termites: - ✔️ ✔️ Long head and smoothe mandibles, they eat with the grain of the wood
TARF must include: - ✔️ ✔️ Business license number, evidence of infestation and when the treatment was performed.
TARF must include: - ✔️ ✔️ Business license number, evidence of infestation, treatment performed
TARF: - ✔️ ✔️ Termite Action Report Form. Must place tarf number on wdiir. Must be filed with the OPM within 30 days with fees. ($2)
Termite inspection rule: - ✔️ ✔️ A business licensee shall NOT - commence work - express options - or make statements regarding the presence or abscence of wood destroying organisms until an inspection is made.
Termites - ✔️ ✔️ (Isoptera) are of the most damaging insects that attack structures.
Termites are closely related to... - ✔️ ✔️ Cockroaches
Termites are found in every state, except.. - ✔️ ✔️ Alaska
Termites develop through.. - ✔️ ✔️ Gradual metamorphosis
The purpose of a WDIIR is to: - ✔️ ✔️ Report the evidence or abscence of wood destroying organisms on the day it was made
Third occurrence rule - ✔️ ✔️ Applies to only pre treatments. Applies during the 3 year warranty period. Exterior reoccurrence 3 times. Complete exterior treatment required. Interior reoccurrence 3 times, complete treatment required.
To Apply WDI Applications: - ✔️ ✔️ Need basic knowledge of: WDI, pest problems, pesticides, equipment, methods of application
To find gallons needed for pre treatment: - ✔️ ✔️ Find linear feet, multiply by .4 -- Find square feet, divide by 10 -- Add together for total pre treat gallons
To find the total gallons needed for a pre treat you must: - ✔️ ✔️ -Find linear feet, multiply by.
- Find square feet, divide by 10 Add Totals together for total pre treat gallons
Wood to earth contact: - ✔️ ✔️ (Located in box 15 on the WDIIR) lanscape or other wood abbuting structure and in contact with the soil
Worker castes: - ✔️ ✔️ Nymphs, that are reproductive. And workers that are sterile and blind.
Certified applicators are responsible for: - ✔️ ✔️ Generating and delivering application records immediately following application
Conditions conducive: - ✔️ ✔️ Wood to earth contact, excessive cellulose debris, faulty grade, excessive moisture, innaccessible sub area or portions of a sub area
Dampwood application goals: - ✔️ ✔️ Control moisture and replace damp, damaged wood
Dampwood termites: - ✔️ ✔️ Bowed out head and ridges on mandibles
Deliver to the company office within 7 days: - ✔️ ✔️ WDIIR
