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Texas Certified Applicator

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Texas Certified Applicator 2024

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What is usually the cause when liquid flows into pump of a compressed sprayer and shoots out the handle?** - Answer>> Worn Check Valve Ants with one node?* - Answer>> Carpenter, crazy, Rasberry Crazy, False Honey, Rover, Argentine, Odorous, ghost, pyramid Ants with 2 nodes?* - Answer>> Fire, Thief, Pavement, Acrobat, Pharaoh, Little black, Harvester, Big Headed, Leaf cutter, Acacia, elongated twig Adult dull gray with 4 stripes on thorax?** - Answer>> House fly Other than house flies what species of flys are common the residential environments.* - Answer>> Blue blow, Green blow, stable, Fruit flies, phorid, fungus gnats, moth flies Four wings 3/4 inch wing spread fore wings are grey near body reddish at tips* - Answer>> Indian meal moths Species of wasp that build home above and below ground* - Answer>> Yellow jacket To reduce contact with scorpions eliminate...?* - Answer>> Bricks, stones, wood, trash and other potential harborage points. Insect 3/4 inch yellowish brown with powerful hind legs.* - Answer>> The house/ field cricket

Food handling establishments are?** - Answer>> Areas or places other than a private resident in which food is prepared. Thermal Fogger main disadvantage?** - Answer>> Fog rarely penetrates into cracks and crevices unless air current runs in to the area. Droplets of __ to __ microns range are more efficient in controlling cockroaches.* - Answer>> 5 to 15 Is Tyvek QC a chemical resistant material for PPE?** - Answer>> No Define systematic pesticide.* - Answer>> Pesticide that is absorbed or circulated within a plant or animal making them toxic to pest. Define suspension - Answer>> a mixture That contains fine solid particles mixed throughout a liquid such as water or oil Define toxicity.* - Answer>> The measure of a pesticides ability to cause a acute, delayed or allergic Effects True or False: For indoor treatment at a residential property with fewer than five rental rooms an applicator should make pest control info sheet for each tenant.* - Answer>> True Pest control use records must be kept on premise for how many years.* - Answer>> 2 years The Texas Department of agriculture may restrict advertisement or competitive bidding to prohibit false, misleading, or deceptive

practices give one example of deceptive advertisement.** - Answer>> "We use only EPA approved products " The TDA by rule shall adopt a policy that requires a business holding a structural pest control business license to be inspected by field inspectors how often?** - Answer>> At least 1 time the first year and every 4 years after first year True or False: IPM protocol for school district Iterates the department shell specify the requirements for obtaining approval before applying the pesticide and maintaining records of the application.* - Answer>> True You must include business name, business license, license number, physical address or mailing address telephone number and jurisdiction statements when making?** - Answer>> Pest control contracts and invoices How long should a pest control sign be provided by the licensee to the employee before indoor treatments?* - Answer>> 48hrs Basic steps for agricultural IPM? - Answer>> Preventive tactics, monitoring, assessment, remedial tactics Structural IPM steps - Answer>> Inspection, Assessment, action, and reinspection What does not always a major role in IPM protocol?* - Answer>> Pesticide usage Anything that injures humans animals crops structures or possessions competes with humans crops pets or spreads disease is known as? - Answer>> Pest

Pesticides may enter groundwater directly, through spillage or back siphoning as an example of? - Answer>> Point source When rain or irrigation water carries pesticide away, either mixed in the water or bound to soil this is known as? - Answer>> Runoff When a pesticide dissolves easily flows with water through the soil this is known as? - Answer>> Leaching Pesticide poisoning has symptoms similar to?** - Answer>> Heat exhaustion, food poisoning, hangover, asthma The ______ of a substance is it its capacity to injure a living system* - Answer>> Toxicity Any kind of contact with pesticide is known as? - Answer>> Exposure Define acute toxicity - Answer>> Refers to how poisonous a pesticide is after short term exposure. Define chronic toxicity - Answer>> Is the delayed poisonous effect from exposure to a substance Define acute exposure - Answer>> Is the one time or short term contact with pesticide chronic exposure - Answer>> Long-term repeat in contact with a pesticide more than three months 3 routes of entry for a chemical - Answer>> Dermal, inhalation, and oral

Occurs away from points of contact - Answer>> Systematic effect What are some examples of reversible effects? - Answer>> Skin rash, nausea, eye irritation, and dizziness Define LD50 - Answer>> Lethal dose 50: The dose that will produce death in 50% of the population of test subjects hazard indicators* - Answer>> I highly toxic Danger, II moderately toxic warning, III slightly toxic. IV. Relatively non toxic caution What is the measure of risk - Answer>> Hazard Pesticide found on soil, leaves, skin and other surfaces is known as?* - Answer>> Deposit After application pesticide deposit that remains is known as a? - Answer>> Residual The maximum amount of residual allowed on a harvested crop or processed food is?* - Answer>> Residual tolerance What act gains the EPA its authority in regards to pesticides? - Answer>> Federal Insecticide fungicide and rodenticide act What is the most important amendment to FIFRA* - Answer>> The 1972 Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act or FEPCA Each pesticide must receive approval from? - Answer>> EPA True or False: FIFRA enables the EPA to make sure that when used according to label directions the pesticide will not cause

What did the 1996 Food Quality Protection Act amending FIFRA and FDCA change - Answer>> Decreased food tolerance especially for children and infants The Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 directs the EPA to manage - Answer>> All solid hazardous waste Triple rinsed pesticide containers can be disposed of in? - Answer>> EPA approved land fields The Transportation Act of 1974 regulates?* - Answer>> All transportation of hazardous materials True or False: Any flammable corrosive reactive or toxic waste is considered hazardous even if not on the list by RCRA - Answer>> True What is SARA Title III Act? - Answer>> Design to form communities about hazardous chemicals located nearby and to address the need for community emergency response plans What act protects endangered species? - Answer>> The Endangered Species Act of 1973 Who administers the Endangered Species Act?* - Answer>> Fish and Wildlife Services of Department of Interior Signs of roach infestation* - Answer>> Musty odor, empty Ootheca, shed skin, and excrement similar to mouse droppings The TDA has classified certain pesticides a _______ _______ use when distributed in containers larger than 1 quart for liquid or 2 pounds for dry or solid. - Answer>> State limited

In Texas the state lead agency for regulation of pesticide is - Answer>> TDA The responsibility of farm personnel to notify adjacent land owners and others before pesticide application* - Answer>> Prior notification The 1971 Texas Structural Pest Control Act is enforced by - Answer>> The Texas Structural Pest Control Service You must handout SPCS consumer info sheets before indoor and outdoor pesticide application posing notice at least ____ hours before treatment. - Answer>> 48 hrs Hazardous waste is regulated under which two acts? - Answer>> Federal Conservation and Recovery Act and Texas Solid Waste Act System That allows you to pour pesticide from its original container rinse container and transfer the pesticide and rinse solution without contact.* - Answer>> Closed handling system W-A-L-E sequence* - Answer>> W- wettable powder and granular A - Agitate L-Flowable liquids E- EC What do you use if you ingested pesticide?* - Answer>> Activated Charcoal