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CA Branch 3 Practice Test
CA Branch 3 Practice Test
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CA Branch 3 Practice TestThe Black Polycaon are one of the wood destroying largest beetles at 1/2 to 1 inch
long? True or False - ANS-True
Beetles have a complete life cycle? True or False - ANS-True
A Lyctid beetle is a true powderpost beetle? True or False - ANS-True
Black Polycaons are likely to re-infest? True or False - ANS-False, they do not re-infest
Lyctid beetles attack mostly hardwoods and they do re-infest? True or False - ANS-True
Lead cable borers attack maple and other hardwoods. They will also bore through lead
sheathing around phone and power lines? True or False - ANS-True
Name 3 Bostrichidae (False Powderpost Beetles)? - ANS-Lead Cable Borer, Black
Polycaon, Bamboo Borer
Bamboo borers are very damaging to bamboo furniture and will re-infest? True or False
- ANS-True
Deathwatch beetles are known for their mating signal. How do they do that? -
ANS-Strike their head against the surface they are standing on
Lead Cable Borers do not re-infest? True or False - ANS-False, they do re-infest
Deathwatch beetles attack oak and hardwoods and will re-infest? True or False -
ANS-True
Name two Anobiidae (false powderpost beetles? - ANS-Deathwatch, Furniture Beetle
Furniture beetles will attack coniferous and hardwoods and prefer new wood instead of
old? True or False - ANS-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 - ANS-False, they do not re-infest
, New house borers prefer old seasoned wood? True or False - ANS-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 - ANS-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 -
ANS-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 - ANS-False, do not re-infest and they cannot survive in
seasoned wood.
Name a Buprestidae Beetle? - ANS-Flat Headed Borer
What does frass from a lyctid beetle look like? - ANS-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 - ANS-True
Bark beetles are a serious pest of our forest but may be brought in with firewood? True
or False - ANS-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 - ANS-True
Bark beetles do no re-infest? True or False - ANS-True
Black polycaon emergence holes that are about 1/4 inch in diameter? True or False -
ANS-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 - ANS-True
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