Technician

Under Alaska's certification categories, what is a certified pesticide technician (18 AAC 90.300(c)(19)) limited to applying?

• Any restricted-use pesticide chosen by the technician
• General-use pesticides only, under the direction of an appropriately certified applicator
• Fumigants applied to soil under remote supervision
• Restricted-use pesticides whenever a certified applicator is physically present

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Under Alaska's structural pest control category (18 AAC 90.300(c)(7)), which products are expressly excluded from the pesticides a certified structural applicator may apply in, on, and around structures?

• Rodenticides and general-use insecticides
• Fumigants and general-use antimicrobial pesticides
• Herbicides and aquatic pesticides
• Antifouling paints and biocides

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Before a directing certified applicator allows an Alaska pesticide technician to make an application, which document must the technician have in their possession at the work site?

• A copy of the customer's signed service contract
• The written instructions provided by the directing certified applicator
• A notarized affidavit from the department
• The pesticide manufacturer's material safety data sheet only

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A homeowner reports large numbers of winged termites (swarmers) emerging inside the living space of the structure. What does this most reliably indicate?

• The swarmers blew in from a neighbor's yard and pose no concern
• An established termite colony is infesting the structure
• A new colony is just beginning and no wood has been eaten yet
• The wings prove the insects are flying ants, not termites

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In a subterranean termite colony, which caste actually consumes wood and is therefore responsible for the structural damage found in a home?

• Soldiers
• Workers
• Winged reproductives (alates)
• The queen

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A technician finds pencil-width earthen tubes running up an exposed concrete pier from the soil to the floor joists. What is the primary biological purpose these shelter (mud) tubes serve for subterranean termites?

• They protect the workers from the drying effects of air and let them travel between the soil and wood without exposure
• They are spent egg cases discarded by the queen after a swarm
• They store excess cellulose as a food cache for the dry season
• They are mating chambers built only during the spring swarm

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Compared with drywood termites, what foraging characteristic typically distinguishes native subterranean termites such as Reticulitermes flavipes?

• They live entirely inside the dry wood they infest and never contact soil
• They typically nest in or near the soil and must maintain a moist connection to it, foraging out to reach wood
• They require standing water and infest only submerged or floating timber
• They feed exclusively on living tree roots and never enter structures

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A homeowner sweeps up a small pile of identical translucent shed wings on an interior window sill in spring. For a pest control technician, what does this finding most directly indicate?

• A reproductive swarm has occurred and the structure may be infested, warranting inspection
• The colony has died and no further activity is possible
• The wings are the raw material termites use to construct their mud tubes
• It rules out termites and confirms a fly or moth problem instead

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