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Ornamental and Turf Pesticide Applicators Exam Questions and Answers, Exams of Pest Management

A comprehensive set of questions and answers related to ornamental and turf pesticide applicators exams. It covers various topics, including pest identification, control methods, cultural practices, and disease management. A valuable resource for individuals preparing for pesticide applicator certification exams.

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Ornamental and Turf Pesticide
Applicators Exam Questions and
Answered Already Passed
How can tiny mites on junipers and evergreens be found? ✔✔They can be found by tapping the
leaves against a white index card several times
What is Phytotoxicity? ✔✔Plant damage caused by pesticides
Resistance from pesticides comes from... ✔✔Using the same pesticide over and over again
Pesticides in the soil... ✔✔Are eventually broken down by bacteria and fungi
When should you apply a pesticide? ✔✔When pests are abundant enough to cause unacceptable
damage
In an IPM program you should... ✔✔Produce healthy plants that can resist pests
Which is true? ✔✔Different diseases and insects can cause the same symptoms
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Ornamental and Turf Pesticide

Applicators Exam Questions and

Answered Already Passed

How can tiny mites on junipers and evergreens be found? ✔✔They can be found by tapping the leaves against a white index card several times

What is Phytotoxicity? ✔✔Plant damage caused by pesticides

Resistance from pesticides comes from... ✔✔Using the same pesticide over and over again

Pesticides in the soil... ✔✔Are eventually broken down by bacteria and fungi

When should you apply a pesticide? ✔✔When pests are abundant enough to cause unacceptable damage

In an IPM program you should... ✔✔Produce healthy plants that can resist pests

Which is true? ✔✔Different diseases and insects can cause the same symptoms

Which is false? ✔✔Record keeping takes more time than it is worth

What is Thatch? ✔✔The layer of living and dead plant stems, leaves, and roots that develops between the soil surface and green vegetation

What does proper mowing mean? ✔✔Using sharp blades to make a clean cut

To promote healthy turf and reduce disease... ✔✔Water thoroughly when you first see wilting

When fertilizing... ✔✔Determine fertilizer need through results of a soil test

Which is false? ✔✔Thatch should be a least 2 inches thick to keep soil cool

Cool-season cultivars... ✔✔Can be mixed to minimize disease

Good soil drainage... ✔✔Promotes healthy turfgrass

2.) Billbug damage is easy to diagnose boy gabbing hold of the turf and PULLING OR ROLLING IT BACK

What are some characteristics of Chinch Bugs? ✔✔1.) They feed in clusters and damage first appears as circular patches of yellowing turf that resemble drought injury

What kinds of pests feed on roots? ✔✔1.) White grubs and mole crickets are the most serious root-feeding pests on turf grasses in the southern states

The immature stages of Japanese beetles, Green June beetles, Masked chafers, and Oriental beetles are... ✔✔White grubs

What are some characteristics of Japanese beetles? ✔✔1.) Grubs feed on roots and organic matter at the soil-thatch junction

What are some characteristics of the Masked chafer? ✔✔1.) Turf heavily infested with masked chafers shows drought stress and dead patches that do not recover after irrigation

2.) Infested turf lifts easily

What are some characteristics of Mole Crickets? ✔✔1.) Tawny and southern mole crickets are the most damaging insect pests of warm-season turf grasses in the southern states

How do you detect Mole crickets, Sod Webworms, Armyworms, and other Caterpillars? ✔✔By the soap and water flush by mixing 2 ounces of dishwasher fluid and the insects will be irritated by the dishwashing liquid and rise to the surface

Which method will NOT help monitor cutworms? ✔✔Pitfall trapes

Apply an insecticide... ✔✔When the insect is at its most vulnerable stage

Bacillus thuringiensis... ✔✔Controls caterpillars

The milky spore bacterium... ✔✔Is only effective agains Japanese beetle grubs

To control fire ants... ✔✔Use a combination of broadcast bait treatments

Sod webworms... ✔✔Spin silk webbing near the soil in turf

Perennial weeds... ✔✔Can live indefinitely

Dandelions... ✔✔Have a sturdy taproot

Winter annual broadleaf weeds are... ✔✔Best controlled in mid to late fall and early winter

What are some characteristics of Brown patch? ✔✔1.) Most common disease of tall fescue in the southeast

2.) Causes irregular rings or patches of brown or tan foliage and a grayish "smoke ring" around the margins of the patches may also be evident on close-cut turf in the early morning

What are some characteristics of Large patch? ✔✔1.) Disease of warm-season turf and centipede and St. Augustine are the most susceptible

2.) Develops in the fall and spring when temps are cool and the warm-season grasses are growing slowly

3.) Symptoms usually appear in the spring as the turf is greening up from winter dormancy

4.) Irregular brown, yellow, or orange patches of thin turf are initially 1-2 ft. in diameter

What are some characteristics of Dollar spot? ✔✔1.) Small bleached white spots from 1-2 inches in diameter develop

2.) Bleached white lesions with distinct reddish-brown margins

What are some characteristics or Pythium blight? ✔✔1.) Round to irregular spots from1 inch in diameter on closer mowed turf

Which factor is not a component of the disease pyramid? ✔✔Fungicide

Spring dead spot in bermudagrass... ✔✔Occurs after winter dormancy

What is a major advantage of systemic fungicides for management of turf diseases? ✔✔They translocate to protect newly formed tissue

To reduce gray leaf spot in St. Augustine grass... ✔✔Irrigate early in the morning to give the turf time to dry out completely before evening

Which cultural practice increases the risk of several turf diseases? ✔✔Excessive nitrogen fertilizer

Plants with fibrous root systems near the surface of the ground... ✔✔Should be fertilized sparingly

When pruning large branches... ✔✔Make three cuts to avoid tearing the bark

What are some characteristics of Azalea lace bugs? ✔✔1.) They cause a blotched or spotted appearance of the upper leaf surface

Horticultural oils are especially useful for control of which pests? ✔✔Mites, aphids, and armored scales

When is the best time to use insecticides against soft scale insect? ✔✔During the crawler stage

Which is a piercing-sucking insect? ✔✔Aphid

What is the difference between the webs of eastern tent caterpillars and fall webworms? ✔✔The eastern tent caterpillar makes webs in a tree crotch while the fall webworm makes webs over leaves at the ends of branches

Which is a winter annual? ✔✔Carolina geranium

Which is a Broadleaf biennial? ✔✔Bull thistle

Which is a Broadleaf perennial? ✔✔1.) Woodsorrel

2.) Florida betony

3.) Dock

4.) Poison ivy

Mulches... ✔✔Smother new weed seedlings by keeping out light

Pre-emergence herbicides... ✔✔Persist in the soil for 2 months or more

Post-emergence herbicides ... ✔✔1.) Control most plants after they emerge

2.) Can damage plants when spray contacts green bark

Which weed will spray from rhizomes? ✔✔Bermudagrass