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MASSACHUSETTS PEST APPLICATOR CORE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
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Page 1 of 62MASSACHUSETTS PEST APPLICATOR CORE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
any commercial applicator who, in exchange for compensation, uses or supervises the use
of any pesticides for any purpose or on any property than as provided in the definition of
private applicator:
Commercial applicators for hire in VA MUST have a Pesticide Business License or work for
such a business. - answer-commercial applicator for hire
any local, state, or federal govt employee who uses or supervises the use of any pesticide
for any purpose, regardless of the site, in the performance of their official duties - answer-
commercial applicator government employee
any commercial applicator who is not currently employed in a pesticide-related job and is
thus not covered by the required insurance. Holders of this type of certificate must adhere to
renewal and re-certification requirements - answer-commercial applicator inactive
Any Commercial applicator, registered technician, and/or private applicator who has met the
certification requirements in Virginia. - answer-certified applicator
A certified applicator who uses or supervises the use of pesticides for purposes other than
those covered under a private applicator certification. - answer-commercial applicator
Any commercial applicator who uses or supervises the use for any pesticide as part of
his/her job duties only on property owned or leased by the applicator or his/her employer. -
answer-commercial applicator not for hire
The act or process by which a competent person, acting under the instructions and control
of a certified applicator who is responsible for the actions of that person, applies a pesticide.
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The certified applicator must be present at the application site and be able to see the person
applying the pesticide at all times. - answer-Direct Onsite Supervision
the act or process by which a competent person, acting under the instructions and control of
a certified applicator who is responsible for the actions of that person, applies a pesticide.
the certified applicator must be either near or in close telephone or radio contact with the
person applying the pesticide - answer-Direct supervision
a law that established the basis of U.S. pesticide regulation to protect the applicators,
consumers, and the environment. - answer-Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide
Act (FIFRA)
any substance used to control a pest, or to reduce the unwanted or harmful effects of a
pest. - answer-pesticide
a document required of persons in the business of selling, storing, distributing, mixing,
recommending the use of, or applying pesticides. - answer-Pesticide Business License
application or supervision of an application of pesticide. "use" includes all the routine actives
that are part of a pesticide application, such as mixing, loading, cleanup, and disposal. -
answer-pesticide use
A certified applicator who uses or supervises the use of any restricted-use pesticide to
produce an agricultural commodity. - answer-private applicator
Demonstration of competency by participation in appropriate, approved education courses;
or by re-examination. - answer-Recertification
a certified applicator who renders services similar to those of a certified commercial
applicator. such a person has completed training and demonstrated competency as
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required for registered technicians but has not met the requirements for commercial
certification. - answer-registered technician
any pesticide classified as restricted use by the EPA. - answer-restricted-use pesticide
an application of less than 1/10th of an acre occurring on the same day as a larger
treatment - answer-spot treatment
requires growers who hire agricultural labor to make, maintain, and post pesticide
application records. - answer-federal worker protection standard (WPS)
A plant that completes its life cycle in one year - answer-annual
an animal body part or organ that projects from the main part of the body - answer-
appendage
a plant that completes its life cycle in two years. the first year it germinates and grows, the
second year it continues to grow, produces fruit, and seeds, and then dies. - answer-
biennial
to kill, prevent, or lessen the harmful effects of, to destroy, or to repel an undesirable
organism - answer-control
a plant with two seed leaves and broad, net veined leaves. flower parts are in multiples of
fours or fives - answer-dicot
any abnormal, unhealthy condition caused by an invading organism such as a bacterium or
virus. - answer-disease
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an abnormal plant growth caused by stimuli from an insect or other organism - answer-gall
an organism infected by a parasite; a plant or animal in which the parasite lives - answer-
host
a system that uses all suitable pest control measures together in a way that keeps pest
populations below the levels that cause economic injury - answer-integrated pest
management
An animal without a backbone - answer-invertebrate
Natural insect chemicals that keep the earlier stages of an insect from changing into the
normal adult form. - answer-juvenile hormones
change in body form during the life cycle of an organism. there are two forms: complete, or
gradual. - answer-metamorphosis
how a pesticide works to control a pest - answer-mode of action
a soft-bodied invertebrate typically protected by a hard shell - answer-mollusk
A microscopic, eel-like roundworm. - answer-nematode
Any site or organism other than the site or pest toward which the control measures are
being directed. - answer-nontarget
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