Page 1 of 20 TDA COMMERCIAL APPLICATOR LICENSE TEST QUESTION S WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2024 -2025 A GRADED What are the signs of sucking pests when foliage is bleached, bronzed, stippled (flecked), or yellowed but leaf surface looks physically sound aphids sometimes called plant lice, small and appear green, blueish green, yellow -green, reddish brown, or nearly black. some appear wooly or powdery because of the waxy covering on their bodies many species occur on ornamental plant foliage scales cottonycushion scale, obscure scale, euonymus scale, wax scales, and crapemyrtle bark scale mealybugs type of scale insect that is covered with a mealy or waxy secretion rhodesgrass mealybug of turgrass and longtailed mealybug on ornamentals whiteflies Powdery insects with four white wings, sucking insect lace bugs suck sap from the leaf undersides of evergreen and deciduous tress and shrubs Page 2 of 20 cicadas are not considered plant pests thrips serious pests of ornamentals because of their damage to leaves and flowers while also transmitting some plant diseases such as tomato spotted wilt usually attack tender growing tissue of plants often reinfest flowering plants, particularly roses spider mites among the most harmful and persistent not pests but belong with spiders and ticks in the order Acarina generally avoid chemical treatment until visible damage as mites can develop resistance to miticides very rapidly chewing pests caterpillars, beetles, leafminers, wood -boring insects, gall -forming pests caterpillars cankerworms, walnut caterpillars, bagworms, leaf rollers, leaf tiers, & leaf crumplers, tent caterpillars, fall webworm, genista caterpillar beetles elm leaf wood -boring insects generally secondary invaders only infect plants when they are stressed or in poor condition Page 3 of 20 systemic insecticides ideal for treating whole plants (bark, leaves, or roots) can be injected into the vascular system of the plants effective against many sucking pests and some chewing pests have a relatively long residual life, kill fewer, beneficial insects, protect newly expanding foliage not present during application insect pests of turfgrass sucking pests & chewing pests sucking pests of turfgrass southern chinch bugs, bermudagrass mites southern chinch bugs among the most economically damaging insect pests of st. augustinegrass in texas during the summer prefer hot, dry weather and open sunny areas bermudagrass mites microscopic cigar -shaped bodies and two pairs of legs cause damage by sucking juices from the plants infested grass will appear pale and stunted white grubs roughly 100 species in texas cause more indirect damage than direct damage as they attract other forms of wildlife that tear up the grass in search of them to eat most harmful species in texas are the june beetle and the southern masked chafer
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