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Define pest in simple terms |
Any unwanted organism |
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What is pest managment |
The reduction of pests population to tolerable levels |
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What is an eco system |
A community with physical and biological supports |
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1/2 inch |
German Cockroach |
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1/2 inch |
Brown band cockroach |
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1 1/3- 1 1/2 inch long |
American cockroach |
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1 1/4 inch long |
Oriental cockroach |
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Australian cockroach |
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Smoky Brown cockroach |
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Bald faced hornet |
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Bed bug |
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Blow fly/ bottle fly |
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Box elder bug |
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Brown dog tick |
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Carpenter ant |
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Camel cricket |
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Cat flea |
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Cover mite |
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Cigarette Beatle |
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Cluster fly |
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Corn field ant |
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Deer mouse |
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Earwig |
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Drugstore beatle |
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Field cricket |
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Red/ confused flour Beatle |
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Foreign grain Beatle |
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Fowl/ bird mite |
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Fruit fly |
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Ground Beatle |
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House centipede |
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Honey bee |
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House fly |
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House mouse |
Nearly hairless tail |
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Phorid fly/ humpback fly |
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Indian meal moth |
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Larder Beatle |
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Meterainan flour moth |
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Millipede |
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Mosquito |
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Drain fly |
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Norway rat |
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Pavment ant |
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Pharaoh ant |
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Powderpost Beatle |
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Book lice/ psocids |
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Saw tooth grain Beatle |
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Shrew |
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Silverfish |
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Sowbug/ pillbug |
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Springtail |
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Strawberry root weevil |
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Termite |
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Varied carpet beatle |
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Webbing cloth moth |
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Western conifer seed bug |
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Yellow jacket |
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Best time to treat for bats |
Late fall or late winter |
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When infest food the greatest loss is not what mice east but what is thrown out from contamination. True or false |
True |
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What are mice unafraid of |
Changes in environment/ territory. Will actully investagte new objects |
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Mice can jump about? |
12 inches high or 30.5 cm |
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Mice can squeeze through openings slightly bigger then? |
1/4 an inch or 6mm |
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Mice can swim but... |
Dont care for it. Tend not to dive underwater. |
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Mice Can fall from as high as? |
8 feet or 2.5 meters |
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How far will mice travel from there nest? |
30 feet or less |
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How far will rats travel |
100-150 feet |
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Why is tracking powder affective for mice more then rats? |
They groom and clean themselves more then rats. |
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In 6 months one pair of house mice can eat about 4 pounds of food, and deposit about how much droppings? |
18,000 |
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In the right conditions mice can have about ... offspring? |
50 |
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Mice are more likely to cause this, then rats |
Salmonella food poisoning |
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Mice unlike rats may also be responsible for the spread of? |
Meningitis and rickettsial pox |
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Voles have shorter tails and smaller ears. True or false? |
True |
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What is NOT true of mice feeding habits. A. Feed at dusk and just befor dawn. B. May feed 20 or more times a day. C. Prefer cereals over meats. D. Must drink water every day. |
D |
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Difference between rat and mice infestation? |
Size of gnawing, odors, urination pillars. |
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Rats can jump? |
3 feet straight up and 4 feet horizontally. |
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Rats can fit inside pipes of this diameter |
1 1/2 to 4 inches |
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Rats can tread water for... |
Up to 3 days |
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Rats can fall from this height and survive |
Up to 50 feet |
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Name some things rats do that make baiting difficult. |
Horde food/ moving toxic baits into unwanted locations. Fear of new objects. Teach there young to avoid baits |
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When do rats forage? |
Between dusk and midnight |
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Rats will travel how far from there nest |
100-150 feet. |
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First step in controlling pest birds |
Use exclusion methods |
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Effective pressure for fan spray application is? |
20-25 psi |
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For crack and crevis an effective pressure is? |
Less then 10 psi |
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Proper procedure when filing a sprayer? |
Make sure it's working at the beginning of the day. |
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What effect will increasing the pressure of a hand sprayer have on flow rate? |
Disporpotinal increase in flow rate |
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