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Termite Test Practical Exam
Certified applicators are responsible for: - Answer: ✔✔Generating and delivering application records immediately following application
OPM may inspect records within: - Answer: ✔✔24 hours
Only certified applicators, certified in the application category can
apply in (a) : - Answer: ✔✔School or daycare facility, medical facility or food handling establishment
Certifications expire: - Answer: ✔✔-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
ANY OF THE ABOVE NOT MET AND THE APPLICATOR MUST RETEST
What's is the most important part of your application system (Rig) -
Answer: ✔✔The pump
Who is responsible for accuracy of all WDIIR's? - Answer:
✔✔Business licensee
Assign WDIIR a: - Answer: ✔✔Number and file on consecutive order
Deliver to the company office within 7 days: - Answer: ✔✔WDIIR
Must place TARF number on: - Answer: ✔✔WDIIR
No TARF needed for: - Answer: ✔✔Supplemental WDIIR
Termites - Answer: ✔✔(Isoptera) are of the most damaging insects that attack structures.
Wood boring beetles - Answer: ✔✔(Coleoptera) are the latgest order of insects. They are second importance, as far as structural damage. They are the most difficult to control.
Wasps, bees and ants - Answer: ✔✔(Hymenoptera) also destroy wood when nesting and are third in importance.
Order isoptera - Answer: ✔✔Equal wings
Termites are closely related to... - Answer: ✔✔Cockroaches
Termites are found in every state, except.. - Answer: ✔✔Alaska
Soldier castes: - Answer: ✔✔Sterile adults that defend the colony. They do not digest wood and are blind.
Subterranean termites: - Answer: ✔✔Long head and smoothe mandibles, they eat with the grain of the wood
Drywood termites: - Answer: ✔✔Square head and ridges on mandibles, they also eat across the grain of the wood.
Dampwood termites: - Answer: ✔✔Bowed out head and ridges on mandibles
In what conditions would Swarming and Mating be ideal? - Answer:
✔✔Warm and humid conditions
During swarming and mating, Alates tend to be: - Answer: ✔✔Easy prey
What percent of Alates survive during Swarming and Mating? -
Answer: ✔✔Less than 3%
Wind has strong influence on which variable(s) during Swarming and
mating? - Answer: ✔✔Direction amd distance
Re-infesting, wood boring beetles, attack what kind of wood? -
Answer: ✔✔They do excessive damage to hard woods
Non Re-infesting beetles: - Answer: ✔✔Lay eggs on the bark of trees and therfore do not re-infest in man made structures
Flat head wood borer: - Answer: ✔✔Metallic wood borer larva
Round head wood borer: - Answer: ✔✔Long horned beetle larva
Bark and timber beetles: - Answer: ✔✔Produce larva that feed on spores produced by fungus, they also cause staining.
Ambrosia beetles: - Answer: ✔✔Breed only in sound recently harvested host material with high moisture content
Carpenter ants: - Answer: ✔✔Build their nests in dry wood, they DO NOT consume the wood
Carpenter bees: - Answer: ✔✔Build about a 1/2 inch perfectly round hole and nest, they prefer softer wood
To Apply WDI Applications: - Answer: ✔✔Need basic knowledge of: WDI, pest problems, pesticides, equipment, methods of application
Application Goals: - Answer: ✔✔Complete control of target pest
Exterior examination, probing and sounding of the interior, attic
inspection, crawl space inspection and garage inspection; - Answer:
✔✔Inspection Procedures
The purpose of a WDIIR is to: - Answer: ✔✔Report the evidence or abscence of wood destroying organisms on the day it was made
Conditions conducive: - Answer: ✔✔Wood to earth contact, excessive cellulose debris, faulty grade, excessive moisture, innaccessible sub area or portions of a sub area
A crawl space is innaccessible if it is smaller than _____ - Answer:
✔✔24 inches
Wood to earth contact: - Answer: ✔✔(Located in box 15 on the WDIIR) lanscape or other wood abbuting structure and in contact with the soil
Excessice cellulose debris: - Answer: ✔✔(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.
Faulty grade: - Answer: ✔✔(Located in box 17) Sloped drain toward house, stucco, floor level and wood siding all below grade
Excessive moisture: - Answer: ✔✔(Located in box 18) standing water, plumbing leaks
Wood destroying fungi: - Answer: ✔✔Microscopic threads not visible to the naked eye unless many of them occur together
Brown rot: - Answer: ✔✔Called dry rot and is the most damaging
White rot: - Answer: ✔✔Destroys the lignin and cellulose in wood, has a bleaching effect
Soft rot: - Answer: ✔✔Attack green water saturated wood
Fungi can cause: - Answer: ✔✔Black mold, sap wood stains, wood decay
Inaccessible areas: - Answer: ✔✔(Box 19) (box 7) anything that you cannot move and or see behind
Insufficient ventilation: - Answer: ✔✔Exist when there is less than one sauare foot of ventilated opening per 150 square feet of crawl space.. less than one sf. For every 1500 of sf. Of ground covered by a vapor area.. less than 2 areas permitting cross ventilation.. excessive moisture due to lack of ventilation
Square feet: - Answer: ✔✔Total square feet of floor of structure
To find gallons needed for pre treatment: - Answer: ✔✔Find linear feet, multiply by .4 -- Find square feet, divide by 10 -- Add together for total pre treat gallons
Termite inspection rule: - Answer: ✔✔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.
Pre treatment rules: - Answer: ✔✔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 - Answer: ✔✔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
Third occurrence rule - Answer: ✔✔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.
Post treatment rules - Answer: ✔✔All applications made should be in accordance with label. Treatment hole spaced to provide unbroken barrier from soil to structure. Treatment holes 24 inch centers unless label requires otherwise. Holes plugged with non cellulose material.
A supplemental report must be completed within: - Answer: ✔✔ 7 days
A supplemental report must be completed by: - Answer: ✔✔Original business licensee
A supplemental must be sent to the business office within: - Answer:
✔✔7 days
TARF must include: - Answer: ✔✔Business license number, evidence of infestation and when the treatment was performed.
Final grade must be completed within: - Answer: ✔✔One year ( months)
To find the total gallons needed for a pre treat you must: - Answer:
✔✔-Find linear feet, multiply by.
Unlicensed applicator: - Answer: ✔✔OPM may allow to apply pesticides under certain conditions. First 90 days
Unlicensed applicators need DIRECT supervision: - Answer: ✔✔For ;
-Industrial and institutional
-ornamental and turf
-right of way
-wood preservation
Unlicensed applicators need IMMEDIATE supervision: - Answer:
✔✔Wood destroying organisms treatment,
WDIIR's,
Fumigation,
Aquatic
Licensed applicators may work in a new category for: - Answer:
✔✔30 days before becoming licensed
