APTIVE Practice Test #2 Questions & Answers
1. The powder post beetle makes its tunnels across the grain or parallel?
Answer Par- allel
2. Indian meal moths hind wings are coppery
Answer False
3. What are the wing characteristics of an Indian Meal Moth?
Answer Coppery Front Wings
4. What is the best way to treat on rainy days or when drizzling?
Answer Dust
5. What cockroach, other than American cockroach, flies in California?
Answer Brown Banded
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6. The average number of eggs a female brown banded cockroach produces in each egg
capsule, or oothecas, is?
Answer 10-15
7. How many egg capsules does a German roach drop in a lifetime?
Answer 4-8
8. How many eggs are in a brown banded cockroach egg capsule?
Answer 14-16
9. How many eggs for a German Roach?
Answer 30-40
10. American roaches can be found in hospitals?
Answer True
11. Where do you treat for German Cockroaches?
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Answer Cabinets Corners
Crevices
12. What diseases do roaches carry?
Answer E. Coli Salmonella
13. Zoos are treated like hospitals
Answer True
14. Is it legal to dump empty pesticide bottles in trash cans behind grocery stores?
Answer Yes, if the label has been stripped and the top broken off aerosol cans, or bottles are
triple rinsed, cut & crushed.
15. Who regulates pesticides in transportation?
Answer Department of Transportation
16. Which California ant has the biggest crater?
Answer Western Harvester Ant
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17. Most common household pest in California is the Argentine Ant.
Answer True
18. The Odorous house ant does not defend its colonies with odor/sting
Answer False
19. Pharaoh, Pavement, Argentine and Thief ants are commonly controlled with baits.
Answer True
20. Leaf cutter ants frequently lay their eggs in feces
Answer True
21. How do you get a colony of odorous ants out of the wall?
Answer Use of boric acid dust in voids along with barrier treatments
22. What ant is generally misidentified with the argentine ant?
Answer Odorous house ant
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