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types of certification Correct Answer: commercial, public, noncommercial, private, and certified handlers what are commercial applicators Correct Answer: persons who apply or use a pesticide or device on any property of another person for compensation what are public applicators Correct Answer: persons who apply pesticides as part of their duties as employees of a state agency, county, municipal corporations, or other gov agency what are noncommercial applicators Correct Answer: persons who apply restricted use pesticides on land or property owned, rented, or leased what are private applicators
Correct Answer: persons who apply any restricted use pesticide for the production of an ag commodity on property owned or rented by themselves or their employers what are certified handlers Correct Answer: persons employed by a licensed commercial applicators who handle pesticides in other than unopened containers for the purpose of preparing, mixing, or loading pesticides for application by another person T or F: a pesticide license is not valid without a certified applicator Correct Answer: true what are the lengths of certifications Correct Answer: one and three year if you apply pesticides for a licensed company, what is required of you? Correct Answer: be certified and must be listed as an applicator under a current iowa pesticide applicator license what happens after passing the exam Correct Answer: you enter a three year qualification cycle how can you renew your certification
T or F: EPA registers each pesticide product for each approved use Correct Answer: true who are the only people who can purchase or apply restricted use products Correct Answer: certified applicators who is responsible for certifying pesticide applicators in iowa Correct Answer: IDALS pesticide bureau what are the reasons EPA might cancel or amend a pesticide registration Correct Answer: if they determine that the current use may cause unreasonable adverse effects what happens in pesticide re-registration Correct Answer: FIFRA requires the EPA to review older pesticides to consider their human and environment effects what can violations of the legal provisions established in FIFRA bring about Correct Answer: civil penalties that can be at much as 6500, criminal penalties that could be 25000 or one year in prison or both residues
Correct Answer: whatever remains; in the case of pesticides, those amounts that remain on or in foods when people buy and use them using pounds as measurement, what does 50 ppm mean? Correct Answer: 50 pounds of pesticide in a million pounds of product Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) Correct Answer: EPA sets allowable residue levels in food production authorized by FFDCA what is a safe tolerance defined as Correct Answer: a level at which there is a reasonable certainty of no harm from the exposure tolerance Correct Answer: allowable residue levels on food supply, the residue level that triggers enforcement actions whats the most important thing on the label concerning food safety Correct Answer: instructions telling the correct application rate and the preharvest interval food quality protection act
Correct Answer: 3 years required records for pesticide use Correct Answer: - name and certification number of the licensee
- name and address of the landowner or customer
- address of the place of application
- date of pesticide application
- trade name of pesticide product used
- quantity of pesticide product used and concentration of application
- temp, direction, and velocity of wind at time of app
- use of restricted use pesticides
- time pest application starts and ends what is the sensitive crops directory Correct Answer: online registry that you can use to identify locations of pesticide- sensitive crops and apiaries in iowa which crops are considered sensitive Correct Answer: vineyards, orchards, organic crops, fruit, vegetable what constitutes a sensitive crop Correct Answer: commercial use, susceptible to pesticide drift damage, meet the min acreage requirements
Iowa bee rule Correct Answer: cooperation between pesticide applicators and beekeepers to prevent unnecessary bee kills what were the 2009 amendments to the iowa bee rule Correct Answer: owners of apiaries need to register their location, commercial applicator cant apply pesticide between 8 am and 6 pm notification requirements for urban pesticide applications Correct Answer: commercial and public applicator must post notification signs at start of application for at least 24 hours, pre notification for anyone who requests it, proper signage what is atrazine Correct Answer: restricted use pesticide due to ground and surface water concerns iowa atrazine management rules Correct Answer: - rates limited to 2.5 lbs per acre per year
- no more than 1.5 lbs per acre per year in 23 counties
- may not be mixed, loaded or repackaged within 100 feet or applied within 50 feet of any type of water
- mixing, loading and cleanout must meet secondary containment requirements
Correct Answer: promotes prevention over remediation. approach to controlling a specific pest components of integrated pest management Correct Answer: id the pest and understand its biology, set up monitoring program, know the available control strategies, implement an IPM program, record and evaluate results IPM Control strategies Correct Answer: biological, mechanical, cultural, physical, genetic, regulatory and chemical what is important for making a positive id of a pest Correct Answer: the pest's host life cycles of pests Correct Answer: pest species can take on different physical forms depending on the stage in their life cycle economic threshold level Correct Answer: pest population density at which control measures are needed to prevent the pest from reaching the economic injury level
economic injury level Correct Answer: pest population density that causes losses equal to the cost of control measure how do you make control practices profitable Correct Answer: the economic threshold needs to be set below the economic injury level aesthetic threshold Correct Answer: Damage level that is unacceptable to the viewer. action threshold Correct Answer: pest level at which some type of pest management action should be taken examples of natural control measures Correct Answer: climatic factors, topographic features, natural enemies what is biological control Correct Answer: using natural enemies to control or suppress pests what is mechanical control
Correct Answer: describes how it workers and what specific systems are affected in the pest how are pesticides grouped together Correct Answer: type of pest they control. then by their chemical structure, properties, mode or site of action non-selective pesticide Correct Answer: chemicals that destroy a wide variety of plant and insect pests selective pesticides Correct Answer: control only certain species of pests or affect only a certain stage of pest development systemic pesticides Correct Answer: absorbed through leaves or roots are translocated within the treated plant contact pesticides Correct Answer: must directly touch the pest or a site the pest frequents to be effective what do you do when implementing an IPM program
Correct Answer: combine several compatible methods and target the pest at the most susceptible stage for control pesticide resistance Correct Answer: The ability of an insect, fungus, weed, rodent, or other pest to tolerate a pesticide that once controlled it. when does pesticide resistance develop Correct Answer: when pesticides with the same mode or site of action are used intensely and repeatedly define pesticide label Correct Answer: includes all the info printed on and attached to the pesticide container or referred to on the label or accompanying lit why is it important to read and understand the label on pesticide Correct Answer: it explains handling, storage, use, disposal. you are liable for injury, crop or site damage or pollution through misuse four types of approved pesticide products Correct Answer: section 3, section 24, section 18 exemption, section 25 exemption section 3 pesticide registration
inert ingredient Correct Answer: part of the product that does not provide activity against pests, sometimes labeled as other ingredients chemical name Correct Answer: identifies the chemical structure and components of the pesticide's active ingredient restricted use statement Correct Answer: could harm humans, animals, or the environment even when used properly. must be at the top of the front panel of the pesticide label danger-poison signal words Correct Answer: highly toxic by any route of entry into the body danger signal word Correct Answer: can cause severe eye damage or skin irritation warning signal word Correct Answer: product is moderately toxic either orally, dermally, or through inhalation
caution signal word Correct Answer: slightly toxic precautionary statements Correct Answer: additional statements that tell you how a pesticide may be hazardous. hazards to humans and domestic animals, environmental hazards and physical or chemical hazads phytotoxicity Correct Answer: Injury or damage to a sensitive plant caused by a chemical exposure. examples of pesticide misuse Correct Answer: applying it to a site that is not listed on the label, applying at a higher than label rate agricultural use requirements Correct Answer: only on products used in farms, forests, nurseries or greenhouse that are covered by WPS, has training, decontamination, notification and emergency assistance, PPE Restricted Entry Interval (REI) Correct Answer: how much time must pass between the application of a pesticide and the reentry of unprotected workers
ways to determine whether two pesticides can be safely mixed together for application Correct Answer: read the labels, do a jar test, define pesticide incompatibility Correct Answer: when problems develop from mixing two or more products together two types of pesticide incompatibility Correct Answer: physical where products dont stay uniformly mixed, chemical where a chem reaction happens and alters the activity of the product purpose of adjuvants Correct Answer: chemical that is added to the pesticide mixture to help improve the mixing, application, or effectiveness of the pesticide types of adjuvants Correct Answer: surfactants, stickers, plant penetrants, compatibility agents, buffers or ph modifiers, drift control, defoaming, thickeners advantages of smoke or fog generators Correct Answer: easy way to fill entire enclosed space with pesticide disadvantages of smoke or fog generators
Correct Answer: highly specialized use and equipment, difficult to confine to target site, may require respiratory protection advantages of emulsifiable concentrates Correct Answer: relatively easy to handle transport and store, will not plug screens or nozzles, little visible residue disadvantages of emulsifiable concentrates Correct Answer: phytotoxic, easily absorbed through skin, may be corrosive and cause pitting or discoloration advantages of flowables/liquids Correct Answer: easy to handle, transport and store disadvantages of flowables/liquid Correct Answer: requires moderate agitation, may leave visible residue, may be abrasive advantages of ultra low volume Correct Answer: remain in solution, little agitation required disadvantages of ultra low volume Correct Answer: high drift hazard, easily absorbed through the skin
