FLORIDA PEST CONTROL AND APPLICATOR STUDY GUIDE 2023

What is a Pesti-cide?

CONTROL AND APPLICATOR STUDY GUIDE 2023

Any substance or mixture of substances intended fro preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest

1. What are pests? Insects, mice, and other animals.

2. Are Pesticides a

risk to humans?

3. What are attractants?

4. What is a fumigant?

5. What is an insecticide?

6. What is a miticide?

7. What is an ovicide?

8. What are foramens?

9. What are repellents?

10. What are rodenticides?

11. What are Insect

Growth Regulators? (Or IGRs)

Most create some risk to humans, animals and the environment -- because they are designed to kill or affect living

organisms.

A pesticide used to attract pests.

E.G. Used to lure an insect/ rodent into a trap

Pesticide that produces gases or vapors intended to destroy pests in buildings or soil.

Pesticide used to kill insects and other arthropods

Pesticide used to kill mites that feed of plants and animals.

Pesticide that kills the eggs of insects and mites.

Bio chemicals used to disrupt the mating behavior of insects.

Pesticides that repel pests, including insects and birds.

Pesticide used to control mice and other rodents.

Pesticides that disrupt the molting, maturity from pupal

stage to adult, or other life processes of insects.

E.G. Can make insects sterile or become deformed