Included in this month’s issue is “Situational Pest Management,” an excerpt from “The Best of Stoy Hedges.” After reading the article test your knowledge on what you’ve learned by taking the following quiz.
1. “Entomo-logical” solutions means the key to solving pest infestations lies in the ______ of the pest involved?
a. Biology
b. Physiology
c. Identity
d. Toxicology
2. Customers pay pest management professionals to apply pesticides to control pests?
a. True
b. False
3. Two different homes with pavement ants would essentially be treated the same way?
a. True
b. False
4. What sets a professional apart from a homeowner when applying essentially the same insecticides to control a pest is the professional’s:
a. Skills
b. Experience
c. Equipment
d. All of the above
5. The first step in Situational Pest Management is:
a. Finding where the pest lives.
b. Evaluation of the results.
c. Correcting contributing conditions
d. Identifying the pests involved.
6. The identity of the pest tells you where the pest likes to live.
a. True
b. False
7. Control efforts need to be directed at the sites where the target pest:
a. Lives
b. Breeds
c. Harbors
d. All of the above
8. Three different types of cockroaches found in the same apartment may be found in three different sites in and around that apartment.
a. True
b. False
9. Most pest infestations have only one source?
a. True
b. False
10. Long-term control of pests requires.
a. Correct identification of the pests involved.
b. Correcting contributing conditions.
c. Evaluation of the results of the service.
d. Use of non-chemical control techniques.
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