Commercial Applicator License EXAM
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SOLVED (Newest 2025) What is the TDA? - Correct Answers ✅Texas Department of Agriculture, the primary agency regulating pesticides in Texas IPM - Correct Answers ✅Integrated Pest Management What is IPM? - Correct Answers ✅comprehensive approach that uses biological, cultural, physical, and chemical controls in a careful and environmentally sound manner to control pests biotic factors - Correct Answers ✅bacteria, fungi, insects, mites, and viruses the most common biotic pests in landscapes are diseases, insects, and weeds abiotic factors - Correct Answers ✅soil compaction, construction injury, soil fertility, moisture, pH, and environmental conditions that can weaken plants biotic vs abiotic - Correct Answers ✅biotic problems usually affect only one or a few plant species, abiotic problems often affect several or many species 1 / 3
Commercial Applicator License EXAM
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SOLVED (Newest 2025) applied controls - Correct Answers ✅Pest control measures used by humans. These include biological, cultural, mechanical, host plant selection, and chemical control.plant selection - Correct Answers ✅choose all landscape plants according to their water requirements, shade tolerance, and susceptibility to pests chemical control - Correct Answers ✅Use of pesticides or
herbicides to manage an unwanted organism(s) (photo:
herbicide used to kill dandelions) preventative applications - Correct Answers ✅applying pesticide before the problem appears reactive or curative treatments - Correct Answers ✅occur after you notice the pest or its damage protecting water resources - Correct Answers ✅always use pesticides and herbicides as instructed pesticide movement - Correct Answers ✅lateral movement with runoff or sediment; leaching into saturated zone; must be water soluble; also significant transport by wind and rain 2 / 3
Commercial Applicator License EXAM
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SOLVED (Newest 2025) drift - Correct Answers ✅the unintended movement of pesticides through the air during or after application to an area other than the intended target runoff - Correct Answers ✅movement of pesticides across the treated surface when they fall on an impervious surface such as a sidewalk or parking lot and contaminate the runoff water leaching - Correct Answers ✅when chemicals move downward through the soil in the water pesticide residue - Correct Answers ✅the trace amount of pesticide that remains in the environment after it is applied pesticide degradation - Correct Answers ✅all pesticides break down, or degrade, after application the speed of degradation depends on the chemical structure and other environmental factors such as moisture, temperature, and sunlight resistance management - Correct Answers ✅steps taken by applicators to avoid or reduce the effects of pesticide resistance
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