GENERAL STANDARDS AND RIGHT OF WAY PRACTICE

GENERAL STANDARDS AND RIGHT OF WAY PRACTICE

(ACTUAL / ) TEST: ILLINOIS PESTICIDE EXAM

QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS

What substance produces gas, vapors, fumes, and requires special liscensing? - -----Answers----Fumigants

Who enforces the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)? - -----Answers----USEPA (US Environmental Protection Agency)

Who is responsible for enforcing the laws that regulate the use of pesticides for structural pest control? - -----Answers- ---Illinois Department of Public Health

Commercial for hire pesticide applicator - -----Answers---- An individual who applies pesticides for any purpose on property other than that owned, rented, or leased by themselves or their employer

What does the Lawn Care Products Application and Notice Act require? - -----Answers----Placement of markers to lawn after application

Economic injury level - -----Answers----The breakeven point at which the cost of pest control equals the revenue loss caused by the pest

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Incomplete development - -----Answers----Egg, nymph, adult

Complete development - -----Answers----Egg, larva, pupa, adult

What animals are not protected by law? - -----Answers---- Starlings, house sparrows, and feral pigeons

Chlorosis - -----Answers----Yellow-green ish coloration in normally green tissue

Gall - -----Answers----Abnormal swelling in a plant part

Mosaic - -----Answers----Intermingling patches of green and yellow on a leaf

Biennial weed - -----Answers----Seed in second summer and doe in winter

Negatives of WP - -----Answers----Wears out pumps and nozzles

• keys to development of disease - -----Answers----

Susceptible host, pathogen, favorable environment, time

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