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Florida Core Pest
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Florida Core Pest
Which federal agency is responsible for enforcing FIFRA? - ANSWER-EPA
Which statement about FIFRA is false? - ANSWER-State restrictions on pesticides can be more liberal than those of FIFRA
Which regulatory agency is responsible for administering the three Florida laws that govern applicator ...
Florida Core Pest Exam Questions and Answers
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Which federal agency is responsible for enforcing FIFRA? - ANSWER-EPA
Which statement about FIFRA is false? - ANSWER-State restrictions on pesticides can
be more liberal than those of FIFRA
Which regulatory agency is responsible for administering the three Florida laws that
govern applicator licensing? - ANSWER-FDACS
Which applicators class would a person who applies restricted use pesticides to Florida
state highway right of way fall into? - ANSWER-Public
Who would you contact for information regarding licencing of applicators for application
of pesticides to homes and private lawns? - ANSWER-FDACS Bureau of Entomology
and Pest control.
Which applicators class would a person who applies restricted use pesticides to their
own property for production of agricultural commodities fall into? - ANSWER-Private.
Which applicators class would persons engaged in public health or nuisance control
work fall into? - ANSWER-Public Nuisance
What are three licencing categories are available to those seeking limited certification
license? - ANSWER-Limited structural pest control
limited lawn and ornamental pest control
limited commercial landscape maintenance.
How can the public have assurance that pesticides continually meet current scientific
and regulatory standers? - ANSWER-Each pesticide goes through pesticide re
registration every 15 years.
which pesticide is not specifically regulated by Florida rules? - ANSWER-Glyphosate
Which agency would you contact for reporting storage of certain pesticide active
ingredients if they re stored in amounts greater than a threshold quantity? - ANSWER-
SERC
Using barriers to prevent pest from getting into an area is an example of which type of
pest management method? - ANSWER-Mechanical control
, Lowering the humidity of stored grains and other food products to reduce damage from
mold is an example of which type of pest management method? - ANSWER-Mechanical
control mold
Sealing cracks and crevices in buildings is an example of which type of mechanical
control method? - ANSWER-Exclusion
Which would be considered a preventative pest management strategies - ANSWER-
Planting weed and disease free seed
Which would increase the likelihood of pesticide resistance? - ANSWER-Continual use
of the same pesticide from the same chemical family.
What is the first logical step in a pest management plan? - ANSWER-Identifying the
pest.
Which IPM best describes reduction of a pest population to a level where the harm
caused by the pest is acceptable? - ANSWER-Suppression
What is the term that identifies a pest that causes major damage on a regular basis? -
ANSWER-Key Pest
What is the process whereby some organisms accumulate chemical residues in higher
concentrations than those found in the organisms they consume? - ANSWER-Bio
magnification
What is needed to apply a pesticide legally when a pest problem arises for which food
or feed commodity is not on the registered pesticide label or a tolerance has not been
established? - ANSWER-An emergency exemption.
The active ingredient in Lorsban 75WG is listed as chlorprifos 0,0-diethyl 0-trichloro 2
pyridinyl) phosphorothioate. What does the term "chlorpyrifos" represent? - ANSWER-
The common name.
Which statement about pesticide label names and ingredients is true? - ANSWER-
Various manufactures use different trade names, even though the products contain the
same active ingredient.
What is the purpose of the signal word? - ANSWER-To give the user an indication of
the relative acute toxicity of the product to human and animals.
The route of entry statement on a label " Extremely hazardous by skin contact - rapidly
absorbed through the skin" would most likely appear with which signal word? -
ANSWER-Danger.
The statement "do not breathe vapors or spray mist" is an example of - ANSWER-A
route of entry statement.
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