Technician

For a service technician who makes termite applications in Oklahoma, what specific information must the licensee record in the technician's proof-of-training record?

• The technician's home address and driver's license number
• The technician's name, the date of training, and the service technician number
• The customer's name and the contract price
• The EPA registration number of each product used

Under Oklahoma rule 35:30-17-25, what is the minimum age to purchase restricted-use pesticides and make pesticide applications?

• Sixteen (16) years of age
• Eighteen (18) years of age
• Twenty-one (21) years of age
• No minimum age is specified

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Which statement correctly describes a service technician under Oklahoma's Combined Pesticide Law?

• A person who has passed certification and may operate independently without a license
• A government employee applying restricted-use pesticides in official duties
• A person employed by a licensed commercial or noncommercial applicator who applies pesticide but is not a certified applicator
• Any private property owner applying pesticide to his or her own land

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Under Oklahoma rule 35:30-17-25, when may a service technician perform the actual pesticide application without a certified applicator physically present at the job site?

• Only when the product label requires a certified applicator on site
• Whenever a certified applicator is not present at the job site, the service technician is the one required to be on site to make the application
• Never; a certified applicator must always be present for any application
• Only for applications of non-restricted-use pesticides

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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