Mississippi Pesticide License Exam
With Complete Solution
Hours of college credit in category required for a license. - Answer 15
Years experience within what time frame required to qualify for a license. - Answer 1
year within 3
How long is a license valid. - Answer Three years.
Bond requirement for Pest control. - Answer $5,000
Insurance required per occurrence and aggregate. - Answer $100,000 and $200,000
Time records are to be kept after the end of a contract. - Answer 2 years
How many hours of classroom training are required for a registered technician. - Answer
8 hours general training, and 8 hours specific to the category.
To renew a license or permit, you must do what? - Answer Complete an approved
training course, or pass an examination within the past 12 months.
Types of insect life cycles. - Answer Gradual - Complete - Ametabolus (Without
Metamorphosis)
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Beetles - Answer Coleoptera - Complete - Chewing
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Butterflies & Moths - Answer Lepidoptera -
Complete - Chewing as caterpillars, and siphoning as adults.
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of flies. - Answer Diptera - Complete - Chewing as
immatures, and sucking or sponging as adults.
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Ants, Bees, and Wasps. - Answer Hymenoptera -
Complete - Chewing or chewing and sucking
Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of true bugs, cicadas, leafhoppers, fulgorids, aphids,
whiteflies, and scales. - Answer Hemiptera - Gradual - Sucking
,Order, life cycle, and mouthparts of Crickets and grasshoppers. - Answer Orthopetera -
Gradual - Chewing
Stages of a gradual life cycle. - Answer Egg, nymph, and adult.
Stages of a complete life cycle. - Answer Egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
Stages of ametabolus life cycle. - Answer Young look just like adults in every way, just
smaller.
Characteristics of Chewing mouthparts. - Answer Strong mandibles, smaller pair of
maxillae.
Characteristics of Piercing/Sucking mouthparts. - Answer Elongate holo proboscis used
to pierce plant, animal, or insect being fed upon to suck up sap or blood.
Characteristics of mouthparts used for both Chewing and Sucking - Answer Chewing
mandibles as well as other mouthparts modified for sucking.
Characteristics of mouthparts used for Sponging - Answer Hollow proboscis with an
enlarged sponge-like structure.
Characteristics of mouthparts used for Siphoning - Answer Long hollow proboscis
usually rolled up when not in use.
A large order of insects having a single pair of wings, and sucking or piercing
mouthparts. Describe picture. - Answer Diptera (Flys)
Leaf Miner - Describe picture, what they are, and how they feed. - Answer Various small
moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf tissue.
Describe picture and name of result of damage from an insect to the leaf of a plant.
Insect is usually gone. - Answer Leaf Gall
Crane Fly (Identify, life cycle, and food) - Answer Long-legged slender flies that
resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite. Complete life cycle. Feeds on grass roots,
but adults do not feed.
Hymenoptera - Answer an order of insects including: bees
Cicada killer (Life cycle, food, and characteristic) - Answer large black or rust-colored
wasp that preys on cicadas, complete life cycle, largest wasp
Imported fire ant (Identify, life cycle, food, characteristics) - Answer Hymenoptera
holometabolous chewing pest, Complete life cycle, feeds on insects and seeds, has
painful sting.
, Orthoptera - Answer Order of grasshoppers, and crickets
House crickets - Answer nocturnal, live 2-3 months, lay 40 to 100 eggs
Field cricket (Identify, life cycle, characteristics) - Answer Common American black
cricket. Gradual life cycle, males use structures on their wings to produce songs.
Mole Cricket (Life cycle, food, and characteristics) - Answer Digs in moist soil and feeds
on plant roots, gradual life cycle, and pests of golf courses.
Chinch bugs - Describe picture and order - Answer small black-and-white insect that
feeds on cereal grasses - Order of Hiemiptera
Boxelder bugs - Describe picture and order. Where does it lay eggs, and survive the
winter? - Answer Lays eggs on leaves of box elder trees, spend winters behind walls of
houses, feeds on seeds of box elder trees. Hemiptera order.
Sycamore lace bug. Describe picture and order. - Answer In Hemiptera order.
White grub - Describe picture and order. - Answer Order of Coleoptera
Japanese beetle. Describe picture and order. - Answer small metallic green and brown
beetle native to eastern Asia. In order Coleoptera.
Order of plant lice (Aphids) - Answer Homoptera
Leafhoppers - Describe picture and order. - Answer Order of Homoptera
Annual Cicada - Describe picture and order. - Answer Order of Homoptera
Periodical Cicada - Describe picture and order. - Answer Order of Homoptera
Mealy Bug - Describe picture and order. - Answer Order of Homoptera
Two Lined Spittlebug - Describe picture and order. - Answer Order of Homoptera
Whitefly - Describe picture and order. - Answer Order of Homoptera
Aphid - Describe picture and order. - Answer Order of Homoptera
Ground Pearls - Describe picture and order. - Answer Order of Homoptera
Mecoptera - Answer ..., an order of carnivorous insects usually having long
membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip