California Licensing Exam: Rodent Control

Study Notes: California Licensing Exam

• Roof rats exhibit a behavioral trait called aversion to new objects, requiring pre-baiting of traps in control programs.
• Exclusion, a non-chemical control method, involves trimming foliage and sealing holes.
• Norway rats are commonly located in a structure's sub-area.
• The primary action for complaints about rats in the attic is to inspect the attic and adjacent areas for pest activity.
• The proper rodent bait application for mice in a family residence includes using an anchored, locked, tamper-resistant bait station at ground level.
• After starting a rodent control program, eliminate harborages to boost treatment effectiveness.
• Rodent bait in bait stations needs weekly checks with relocation after three weeks with no signs of acceptance
• Mice can enter a structure through a 1/4 inch opening.
• Urine stains indicate a rat infestation.
• Roof rats typically infest homes or businesses.
• Stains on a pipe or structure indicate a roof rat.
• Rodent-proofing a structure requires openings to be sealed at a minimum size of 1/2 inch.
• A Glue Board can act as both a trap and a monitoring tool for insect IPM programs.
• Norway rat fecal matter is capsule-shaped and measures 3/4 to 1 inch in length.
• Roof rat infestations are indicated by spindle-shaped fecal droppings sized at 1/2 inch.
• Norway rats have the largest fecal size.
• Roof rats are identified by a tail longer than their body.
• The roof rat is a major structural pest in California.
• Traps/baits are typically the primary treatment for rodent infestations.
• A Duster is the appropriate tool for treating ants coming out of a light fixture.
• The frequency of follow-up visits for ant infestations is influenced by non-acceptance of bait, competing food sources, and customer feedback.
• Argentine ants feed on aphid secretions; inspect tree bases and trunks in backyards during searches.
• Perimeter barrier treatments are implemented for Argentine ants.
• Pharaoh ants are commonly found in kitchens and bathrooms.
• Pharaoh ants respond to pesticide spraying by budding into satellite colonies.
• Dead tree trunks/stumps near a residence are conducive to carpenter ant nests.
• Carpenter ants can be prevented from reaching a structure by trimming overhanging tree limbs that touch the structure.
• Dust is used to treat carpenter ants in a wall void.
• Open windows often cause carpenter ant infestations.
• Long-term ant control is achieved once their habitat is destroyed.
• Thief ants are best treated with exterior, ground, and residual insecticide barrier treatments.
• A mound in the soil identifies an imported red fire ant.
• Treat mounds with the rod method around a residence's foundation to treat imported fire ants if wind conditions cause pesticide drift.
• Interviewing the customer is essential for effective ant control.
• Carpenter ant colonies are commonly found in moist wood.
• Inadequate attic ventilation contributes to carpenter ant infestations.
• Pharaoh ants must be transported into a home.
• Carpenter ants produce sawdust-like wood shavings with dead insect body parts.
• Harvester ants rarely invade the home.
• Argentine nests are typically in moist soil near food/water sources.
• Harvester ants are ants with 2 nodes.
• An ant described as yellowish-brownish-reddish and about 1/8 inch in length, with a circle of hairs at the tip of its abdomen is considered crazy/long legged
• The acrobat ant has two nodes in their pedicel and the pedicel attaches to the upper part of the abdomen.
• Carpenter ants have a smooth rounded thorax.
• Pharaoh ants have two nodes and a yellow-gold body with reddish brown abdomens.
• Acrobat ants defend a large colony by giving off a repulsive odor and bites fiercely.
• Argentine ants undergo 4 stages of development (lifecycles).
• Thief ants are often mistaken for pharaoh ants.
• Carpenter ants swarm primarily in the spring.
• The majority of ants are omnivores.
• Carpenter ants have one node.
• Only baits should be applied for pharaoh ants.
• Flea larvae are most often found in the carpet inside the residence.
• Warm, humid conditions are highly conducive to flea development.
• The quickest knockdown residual insecticide application method for flea control in lawns is power spray.
• Preparing a house for chemical flea treatment requires removing objects from the floor.
• Low-pressure fan spray is effective for treating interior carpets for fleas.
• Treating the family dog and the residence for fleas simultaneously reduces the chances of re-infestation.
• Insect growth regulators (IGRs) prevent fleas from reproducing.
• During a flea inspection, it is necessary to find out from the homeowner where the pet's bedding is.
• Pesticides are ineffective and hardest to control during the flea's pupae stage.
• You should have the homeowner vacuum after treatment for fleas to cause pupa to turn into adults.
• Flea eggs are pearly white.
• The cat flea is the most common pest around U.S. homes.
• Sanitation is a long-term method recommended for controlling house flies in a food processing facility.
• Suspect dead rodents if a commercial storage facility owner reports a green bottle fly infestation.
• Locate all breeding sources (like plumbing drains) as the first step to control fruit or vinegar flies.
• To address recurring fly issues in an apartment complex, identify the source and inform the landlord of conducive conditions.
• A homeowner reports seeing a small fly with red eyes hovering around trash compactor, this indicates a fruit fly.
• Drain flies are tiny yellowish-black flies found near damp, moist areas.
• Bottle flies often reproduce in or around feces.
• A majority of dead flies are located in window sills.
• Fungus gnats live in potted plants and can be removed by drying out the soil.
• Moth flies live in plumbing drains.
• The earthworm's development makes it difficult to control the larval stage of cluster flies.
• The house fly is 1/4 inch long, dull, and has four stripes on its thorax.
• Treat yellow jacket infestations during dusk to dawn (nighttime).
• Paper wasp colonies are effectively controlled by chemically treating the wasps and then removing the nest after the wasps are dead.
• To treat for a carpenter bee infestation, inject dust inside the wood hole and plug the hole
• The hole penetrating deeply into ceiling support beams are carpenter bees.
• Carpenter bees bore long tunnels into wood and divide tunnels into sections.
• All honey bees, wasps, ants, yellow jackets and hornets belong to the order of Hymenoptera.
• Bees are considered inactive 2 hours before sunrise.
• A paper wasp nest resembles the shape of an inverted umbrella found on caves of structures.
• Bumble bees nest in trees, tree stumps, attics, or wall voids.
• Small blood stains on sheets indicate an active bed bug infestation.
• Bedbugs are successful at hiding during daylight hours because of their flattened bodies.
• Bed bugs are most active from midnight to dawn.
• Inspect peeling wallpaper, bed frames, furniture, crack/crevices for bed bugs.
• Bedbugs have 4 segments on their antennas.
• Bed bugs survive 12 to 18 months without feeding.
• Upholstery of chairs is where bedbugs can be found during the day.
• You should tell a customer to set traps after you have treated for bedbugs.
• Normal female bed bugs lay 1-5 eggs per day.
• Bed bugs release a sweet odor when disturbed.
• The pesticide category contains boric acid is inorganics.
• Insect Growth Regulators should be added to a tank mix of residual pesticide for long-term control of pests.
• An ultra-low volume (ULV) generator is used for space treatment in a warehouse.
• Bait should be used to treat roaches found in an electrical outlet.
• Advantage to wettable powder as a pesticide is the product has a long residual effect.
• Wettable powder is used for an effective barrier treatment for quarterly exterior maintenance.
• The ranking order from most toxic to least toxic signal words is Danger, Warning, Caution.
• Before applying pesticides, conduct a visual check to identify objects that could be damaged.
• An insecticide safe for a nursing home, operating room or intensive care unit are baits and/or traps because of no odor.
• Granular insecticides are ready to use.
• Attach pesticide identification tags to all pesticide service containers to comply with the California Code of Regulations.
• Service container pesticide labels needs the: EPA registration number, chemical name, and name and address of the person or firm responsible for the container.
• Excessive pressure in a sprayer causes uneven pesticide coverage.
• Acute pesticide exposure symptoms appear immediately or within 24 hours.
• In case of accidental poisoning, start first aid, consult the pesticide label, and seek immediate medical attention.
• The Structural Pest Control Board must be notified by a registered pest control company immediately after a representative is seriously injured during an application.
• The Structural Pest Control Board's phone number and address must be included in the written notice given to occupants before a pesticide application.
• Spot treatment is the best method for a 2x2 area.
• Pyrethroid exposure leads to skin rash, irritated eyes, and sneezing.
• The major factor that influence drift is Nozzle size and pressure regulation.
• Toxicity is described as a pesticide's capacity to cause injury/harm.
• Drift: the movement of pesticide away from the treatment area.
• Active ingredient is best described as Toxicant.
• Advantage to Aerosol is less staining of surfaces.
• Hot weather accelerates degradation and volatilization of a chemical application.
• The Statement of Practical Treatment on the label gives you emergency information.
• The minimum legal age for a pest technician or licensed branch 2 field representative is 18.
• Dermal contact is the most common route of pesticide exposure.
• Inhalation is the most dangerous route of pesticide exposure.
• Inhalation is commonly how exposure to dusts, mists, and aerosols occurs.
• A new hire can apply chemicals under a licensed field rep or operator for 90 days.
• An applicant for a Branch 2 Field Rep license must prove at least 40 hours of training.
• A field rep renews their license every 3 years.
• A field rep license expires every three years on June 30th.
• Bromadiolone is an Anticoagulant used for Rodent Control.
• Boric acid aids in the elimination of ant colonies by working slow enough for foraging ants to take back to the colony.
• When triple rinsing a pesticide container, fill 1/4 with water during each rinsing.
• Containing the area should be the first action at a chemical spill.
• The name of a chemical must be provided within 24 hours if requested by a customer or occupant.
• Trap around entrances is the method for treating a USDA food facility plant.
• The most common cause of drift in the pest control industry is mix/matched nozzle sizes.
• An extension ladder should extend 3 ft over the roof line.
• A Bulb duster is used for treating voids.
• Inspect application equipment for wear or damage before each use.
• Decreased hose sizes causes low pressure and uneven spray pattern
• Daily maintenance for a compressed air sprayer: check hoses for deterioration, check for leaks, and release pressure.
• Preventive maintenance for compressed air sprayer: rinse tank and hose after all chemical has been emptied.
• The pump seals are worn indicated by spray hose pulsations noticed by a field representative.
• practices are basic for pest management of a food processing plant: install weather stripping on doors and windows.
• A mesh size of 15 is used in a granular spreader to minimize drift.
• An applicator should hold an Aerosol spraying about 18-24 inches from the treatment area.
• A bristle brush should be used to clean a clogged tip of a nozzle.
• An airtight sealed case should house respirators when not in use.
• Check your respirator before each use.
• Immediately flush your eyes with plenty of water for 15 minutes if a pesticide come into contact with the eyes.
• Shower thoroughly & change into clean clothing if chemicals are spilled on an applicator's clothing.
• It is recommended to increase ventilation and use PPE to reduce exposure to a liquid pesticide.
• Hydroprene should be used for IGR for cockroaches.
• Emulsifiable concentrates penetrates the skin most easily.
• You should separate & isolate contaminated clothes before you wash them .
• The employer is responsible for providing all personal protective equipment to the applicator while on the job.
• Initially Headache and dizziness occurs if there is mild exposure to organophosphate.
• Damp areas will decrease the long-term effectiveness of an Oriental Cockroach treatment.
• Set traps set at 6 feet in a structure with a severe mouse infestation.
• Consider visible staining residue when selecting a wettable powder.
• Pyrethroids have been found to show high levels of resistance for bed bugs.
• When controlling rodents, use trapping to prevent them from dying in an inaccessible area.
• Warfarin is an anticoagulant.
• Rodenticide should be used as a primary control for rodents by structural technicians
• After the residual treatment for stored product pests, set light traps.
• Indian meal moths can be monitored with light traps.
• Food preparation areas are where and light traps should be placed 10 feet away from foods.
• Three feet is the minimum distance traps should be set at when monitoring stored product pests.
• The following controls spider: vacuum all known hiding places.
• Both liquid and dust pesticide would make a pharaoh ant infestation worse.
• Exclusion is the control method that should be used for house flies invading a structure.
• Light attracts the adult Mediterranean flour moth.
• Factor affects time liquid pesticide will remain active: the type of surface.
• Irregularly-arranged webs indicates a black widow.
• Black widow spider webs are irregular, scaffold type.
• Should a house centipede be found in a home, damp areas outdoors should be inspected.
• Centipedes use a claw to inject poison.
• A centipede is elongated, flattened, with one pair of legs per body segment.
• Silverfish infestations are most often located in the sub area.
• Paper products are highly damaged by silverfish.
• Dust formulation should be used in attics for silverfish control.
• Recommend a customer dry clean all woolens suspected of being infected and empty the closet and treat all cracks and crevices when furniture beetles are infesting a woolen suit in their closet
• Bagged and boxed spices harbor cigarette beetles.
• Invader beetles should be controlled starting at the exterior.
• Carpet beetle larvae feed in secure sites on animal fabrics.
• The drugstore beetle is an example of an external feeder.
• Larder beetles live in bee and wasp nests.
• Sanitation helps prevent carpet beetles.
• Clothes moths and carpet beetles digest Keratin.
• Treat with light, fine and wet spray directly to the material carpet beetles for treating furniture.
• Use low pressure fan spray should be used for carpet beetles.
• Adult ticks have 8 legs.
• Bait around the exterior to treat field crickets.
• Weather stripping all windows is a cricket exclusion method.
• To control Oriental cockroaches infesting a residence, it is best to treat damp areas.
• German cockroaches cause the most common and produce the most eggs the fastest.
• To control American cockroaches: along plumbing pipes and entering the sub area.
• treat by applying pesticides with a residual treatment into all the crack and crevices in an infested area should used for German roaches.
• Gain the glue boards/traps for monitors and what is working for population reduction German cockroaches is monitoring the evidence of population reduction.
• Sanitation, residual insecticides, and insect growth regulators are recommended for German cockroaches.
• Use baits/traps to treats if there are cockroaches inside of computers.
• Brown banded cockroaches live in warm environments.
• Water meter enclosures may indicate the source of the cockroach's Infestation.
• Dampness is the environmental condition that attracts oriental cockroaches.
• A strong sign that an active cockroach infestation is: fecal matter.
• American cockroaches are located in sanitory (sewers) and storm drains.
• German cockroaches are found in restaurants.
• To check for a German cockroach infestation, use a flushing agent containing pyrethrins.
• In a life, German cockroaches can create can produce 4-8 egg capsules.
• The German cockroach lives for up to 12 months.
• The brown banded cockroach nymph has 6-8 instar stages.
• Largest to smallest the roach; is the American cockroach.
• Ootheca is the proper name of the purse-shaped egg capsule on a female cockroach.
• Knowns for how and which carry the egg capsule protruding from the rear of the abdomen until the eggs are ready to hatch, the German cockroach.
• Smokey brown cockroaches carry the egg capsule for about 30 hours and attach it to a protected surface near a food supply.
• Give a roach some water, but no food this will kill them in one month.
• Use pheromones as a monitoring tool to attract members of a specific species.
• repetitive use of the same chemical cause insecticide-resistant insect populations.
• Prevention of stored product pantries: use tight-fitting containers, store dried food in freezers, and keep storage areas clean.
• Remove springtails by: excessive moisture areas in house and dry out.
• A pest inspector needs to find occasional invaders found in basements, kitchens and bathrooms.
• 1. The first process is conduct a detailed interview the customer.
• An internal feeder, can be the rice weevil, a product pest.
• Granary weevils eat inside the kernel of corn.
• A total amount total a year Scorpions can live without food or water.
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• The firebrat is 1/2 inch long,has numerous dark patches, mottled grey look is usually and in bakeries.
• Debris caused by Indian meal moths.
• Hair and natural products what is consumed.
• The worst stage of a clothes moths larvae.
• Moth will likely to be webbing moths or casemaking months only 10-30 day lifespan.
• Lyme Disease is carried by black legged deer tick.
• Bees & ants and termites all are parts in a labor which are called castes.
• Neophobia called not curious than mice.
• Sometimes robin birds cause nest is california.
• A rice weevils has shape is the letter c.
• Atlease 3 diseases that mites can transmit them.
• NO, not all workers.
• Fumigant the most toxic one should use pesticide.
• The bee doesn’t have one.
• Fleas make it happen.
• Feral rats.
• Bed bugs will eat all blood in warm blooded.
• The pointed male female is rounded for bed bugs.
• Phorid flies that most source issue find for pest find.
• Large loud and.
• Flesh fly large grey also line.
• Stable flies with farms kennel also like the house fly.
• Mosquito is what you in standing water.
• Check snappy traps.
• Sticky rodent traps check weak.
• The insect elimintates are what that are sanitize.
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• Spider only has 8 legs.
• Insects leg of amount is 6.
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