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CA Branch 3 Practice Test/160 Questions withSolutions (Wood Destroying Organisms)
The Black Polycaon are one of the wood destroying largest beetles at 1/2 to
1 inch long? True or False - -True
-Beetles have a complete life cycle? True or False - -True
-A Lyctid beetle is a true powderpost beetle? True or False - -True
-Black Polycaons are likely to re-infest? True or False - -False, they do not
re-infest
-Lyctid beetles attack mostly hardwoods and they do re-infest? True or False
- -True
-Lead cable borers attack maple and other hardwoods. They will also bore
through lead sheathing around phone and power lines? True or False - -True
-Name 3 Bostrichidae (False Powderpost Beetles)? - -Lead Cable Borer,
Black Polycaon, Bamboo Borer
-Bamboo borers are very damaging to bamboo furniture and will re-infest?
True or False - -True
-Deathwatch beetles are known for their mating signal. How do they do
that? - -Strike their head against the surface they are standing on
-Lead Cable Borers do not re-infest? True or False - -False, they do re-infest
-Deathwatch beetles attack oak and hardwoods and will re-infest? True or
False - -True
-Name two Anobiidae (false powderpost beetles? - -Deathwatch, Furniture
Beetle
-Furniture beetles will attack coniferous and hardwoods and prefer new
wood instead of old? True or False - -False, prefers old woods to new lumber
-If a home has a problem with flat headed borers, you should fumigate the
home because they are likely to reinfest? True or False - -False, they do not
re-infest
-New house borers prefer old seasoned wood? True or False - -False, they
attack green lumber, likes pines, firs and especially Douglas fir. Will bore
, through hardwoods, plaster, comp. roofing and linoleum to emerge. May be
brought in with new lumber and firewood.
-Old house borers prefer new/fresh wood? True or False - -False, attacks
seasoned wood. Prefers pine, fir and spruce. Will attack rustic furniture.
-Bark beetles don't really bore through bark to star their tunnels? True or
False - -False, they bore through bark and work between bark and sapwood
and often leave a scoring mark. Eggs are laid in their tunnels.
-If you see wood damaged by a new house borer, it will need to be treated
because they will re-infest? True or False - -False, do not re-infest and they
cannot survive in seasoned wood.
-Name a Buprestidae Beetle? - -Flat Headed Borer
-What does frass from a lyctid beetle look like? - -Talcum powder-like,
packed in channels but will fall freely from emergence holes.
-Flat headed borer emergence holes are oval shaped and about 3/8 inch
wide? True or False - -True
-Bark beetles are a serious pest of our forest but may be brought in with
firewood? True or False - -True
-New house borers may bore through hardwoods, plaster, composition
roofing and linoleum to emerge but they do not require treatment because
they will not re-infest? True or False - -True
-Bark beetles do no re-infest? True or False - -True
-Black polycaon emergence holes that are about 1/4 inch in diameter? True
or False - -True
-You can tell the difference between a true powderpost and false
powderpost beetle's frass because only a true powderpost beetle has a fine
"face-powder" like consistency? True or False - -True
-Lyctid beetle emergence holes are about 1/32nd to 1/16th inch in
diameter? True or False - -True
-Will a bamboo borer re-infest? True or False - -True
-Furniture beetle emergence holes are about 1/16th to 1/8th inch in
diameter and they will re-infest? True or False - -True
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