Alabama HPC Exam Study Guide | 140 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest Update 2024
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ants are known to use a number of chemical pheromones to communicate between individuals within
the same colony. - trail pheromones, sex pheromones, or alarm pheromones.
social wasps include: - paper wasps, hornets, and yellowjackets.
oderous house ant is a common indoor species, gives off a ver...
Alabama HPC Exam Study Guide | 140 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest Update 2024 ants are known to use a number of chemical pheromones to communicate between individuals within the same colony. - ✔✔trail pheromones, sex pheromones, or alarm pheromones. social wasps include: - ✔✔paper wasps, hornets, and yellowjackets. oderous house ant is a common indoor species, gives off a very unpleasant odor when crushed. - ✔✔true large yellow ant, which may swarm around foundations early spring and be mistaken for termites, smells like oil of citronella when crushed. - ✔✔true control of ground -nesting yellowjacket nests can often be done safely during the daytime, but will generally create fewer safety concerns when the job is done at night time. - ✔✔true The smallest common Vespid wasps are yellowjackets. Most species typically build their nests underground. - ✔✔true wasps differ from bees in that mosts wasps feed their young animal matter, spiders, or meat particles, and not pollen. - ✔✔true winged forms of ants, called alates or swarmers, leave the nest at suitable times to mate. - ✔✔true ant colonies include the following members: - ✔✔workers, one or more reproductives, eggs, larvae, and pupae. galleries of carpenter ants, excavated in wood, often resemble work of termites. - ✔✔distinguished by their entirely clean and sandpapered appearance. fire ants are active and aggressive, and may kill young wildlife, or produce sores or nausea in humans. - ✔✔true four species of fire ants: - ✔✔southern fire ant, the fire ant, red imported fire ant, and the black imported fire ant. the successful management of ants often requires an exact identification of the species involved. - ✔✔true reason for starting new ant colonies is low is: - ✔✔predation, competition within species, enviromental extremes the red imported fire ant: - ✔✔aggressively defends its colony, typically nests in the soil, and is an important agricultural and urban pest. ants may affect us diversely by: - ✔✔contamination food, stinging and biting, and causing serious structural damage. characteristics of ants - ✔✔elbowed antennae and pedicel control of hornets and yellowjackets should be attempted during the nightime hours because: - ✔✔aggressively defend their nests during the daytime and the whole colony is in the nest at night. 2 problems that may arise following control of honey bee colonies in wall voids. - ✔✔1. large amounts of wax and honey may collect within the wall. 2. Presence of honey in the wall void will attract foraging worker bees from other honey bee colonies. Normally, starlings spend the warm summer months in rural areas, but when it becomes cold in the fall, they move in large flocks into towns and cities. - ✔✔...
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