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Public Health Pest Control 110 Flashcards

1
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What government agency regulates pesticides?

A

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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FIFRA

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Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act

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Two pesticide classifications?

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Unclassified Use (general use) and Restricted Use

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A person who misuses pesticides inconsistent with the label are subject to what?

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Penalties

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Who Needs to be Licensed?

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Person engaged in the business of applying pesticide or pest control for hire.

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Pesticide Application Records need to contain what?

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Name and address, location, target pest, site, pesticide with EPA #, dilution rate, application rate, time and date of application, carrier if not water, name of person who made application.

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All invoice statements must contain?

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“Commercial applicators are licensed by the Colorado Department of Agriculture”

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True/False: The original product container with label or a copy of the pesticide label must be in possession of the applicator at site of application?

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True

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Pesticide Store Area requirments

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Pesticide store separately, area must be posted and locked, clean and orderly, local fire department has Safety Data Sheet, fire extinguisher, containers labeled

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Service Vehicle Equipment Identification

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Identified on both sides of vehicle with company two inches high. City and State where records are kept, 1 inch high

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Pesticide Notification Requirements

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Oral notification before agricultural application, written notification after agricultural application (label will suffice)

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Endangered Species Act

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Act designed to protect animal and plant species threatened or endangered

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Emergency Suspensions

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A power held by the EPA to cancel or restrict certain pesticides that may jeopardize endangered species

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Clean Water Act

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Protects surface water and sets limits to protect aquatic life

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Regulations to Control Communicable Diseases

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Communicable Disease Programs monitor diseases which are transmitted from animals to humans such as plague, tularemia, West Nile Virus

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Toxicity

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Capacity of any substance to produce injury or death

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Hazard

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Possibility that injury will result from substance. Hazard = Toxicity x Exposure

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Acute Toxicity

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Immediate adverse effects from exposure

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Chronic Toxicity

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Longer periods to produce signs and symptoms from exposure

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True/False: The label is a legal document

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True

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21
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The most important part of handling pesticide?

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Reading the label

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Safety Data Sheet (SDS)

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Provides information about the chemical ingredients including emergency information

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23
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PPE definition

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Personal Protective Equipment

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24
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True/False: The label lists the minimum PPE required?

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True

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25
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What area gets the most pesticide exposure?

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Hands and forearms

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26
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Two types of respirators

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Air-supplied and air purifying

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27
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How to avoid exposure to pesticides?

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Proper PPE, washing hands, keeping food, drinks and tobacco products away from pesticides

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28
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Four types of pesticide exposure?

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Oral, Dermal, Inhalation, Ocular

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29
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How to open a paper container?

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A sharp knife - do not tear.

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30
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Define Heat Stress

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When your body is subjected to more heat than it can cope with due to age, weight, fitness level, and pre-existing conditions

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31
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Symptoms of poisoning include

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Vomiting, sweating, nausea, headache

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32
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In a pesticide emergency call?

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Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center

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33
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First Aid Treatment for Dermal Exposure?

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Drench with running water for 10-15 minutes, call poison control

34
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First Aid Treatment for Ocular Exposure?

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Rinse eye for 15 minutes, call poison control

35
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First Aid Treatment for Inhaled Exposure?

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Move victim to fresh air, if unconscious, call for paramedic assistance. Call poison control

36
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First Aid Treatment for Oral Exposure?

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Read the label instructions and call poison control and get victim to the hospital. DO NOT INDUCE VOMITING unless label or medical professional directs you to

37
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Three C’s of spill management?

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Control, Contain, Clean it up

38
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True/False: We should inform the public to bring pets inside during pesticide applications

A

True

39
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What are the best times to apply pesticides to minimize risk and exposure?

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Early morning, evening, night time

40
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Tolerance

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Maximum amount of pesticide residue considered safe

41
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True/False: Pesticide drift can cause residues on crops?

A

True

42
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True/False: Good public relations are necessary when making pesticide applications?

A

True

43
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Professional relations require?

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Technical competence, professional appearance, professional attitude, ability to identify and resolve problems, educational materials for distribution.

44
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What is considered “the environment”

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Air, soil, water, plants, animals. Everything around you.

45
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Phytotoxicity

A

Injury to plants

46
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How to reduce harm to natural enemies?

A

Use selective pesticides rather than broad spectrum pesticides

47
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Bioaccumulation

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Build up of toxin from feeding on plants/animals that have been exposed to pesticides

48
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True/False: a pond is not an example of surface water

A

False

49
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Leaching

A

Movement of pesticides through soil

50
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Adsorption

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Pesticide held strongly to soil and less likely to leach

51
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True/False: Drift can cause illegal residues

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True

52
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Two types of drift?

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Vapor and Particle

53
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Factors Affecting Drift?

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Droplet size, Pesticide Formulation, Application Equipment, Weather Conditions, Atmospheric Conditions

54
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How to reduce drift?

A

Reduce sprayer pressure, Drift reducing nozzles, Spray discs with larger openings, Adjuvants, little to no wind, Calibrated equipment

55
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Examples of drift hazards?

A

Illegal residues, bee kills, water contamination

56
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Disease

A

Negative interaction between host and a pathogen

57
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Vector

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An animal, capable of transmitting a disease causing agent or parasite from one host to another. Example: Mosquito transmitting West Nile to a person.

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Pathogen

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A disease-causing organism

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Host

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The living plant or animal a pest depends on for survival. Any plant or animal which another lives for nourishment.

60
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Vector Borne Disease

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Illness caused by a pathogen that is transmitted by an insect or tick from an infected individual to a susceptible individual

61
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Mechanical Transmission

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When a vector transports an organism such as bacteria on its feet, body hairs, or other body surfaces to the host.

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Biological Transmission

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Disease-causing pathogen that moves from one host to another host. Ticks and insects are important vectors of biological transmission.

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Obligatory Vectors

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When a pathogen develops from one life cycle to another.

64
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Reservoir hosts

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When a host species harbors a disease causing pathogen without necessarily showing symptoms of the disease.

65
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Vertical Transmission

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Some vectors pass the disease to their offspring through eggs.

66
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Anthorpod Vectors

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Invertebrate animals, mosquitoes and ticks are the most notable. Exoskeleton, cold blooded, appendages that are jointed, segmented body.

67
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Complete metamorphosis (four stages)

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Egg, larba, pupa, and adult

68
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Arachnid

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Spiders, mites, ticks. Eight legs, usually two body regions, the head and cephalothorax

69
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Mosquito-borne diseases

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Malaria, dengue, yellow fever, encephalitis

70
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Encephalitis

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Inflammation of the brain, possibly spinal cord. St Louis Encephalitis and Western Equine Encephalitis both examples caused by infected mosquitoes

71
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West Nile Virus

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Usually caused by a bite from an infected mosquito. Mosquito becomes infected when they feed on infected birds. Bird would be the reservoir host, the mosquito the vector, the human the dead end host of the pathogen.

72
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Fly-borne Diseases

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Typhoid Fever, Myiasis

73
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Flea Developmental Stages

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Egg, Larvae, Pupae, Adults

74
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IPM definition

A

Integrated Pest Management

75
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What is IPM?

A

Combination of mechanical, biological, environmental, and chemical control methods.

76
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Six steps successful public health pest control

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  1. Identify
  2. Evaluate
  3. Select best control strategy
  4. Implement control strategy
  5. Evaluate control - Eradication is not generally possible
  6. Educate customer
77
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Surveillance Methods

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Surveillance is the detection of pests, species involved, their population, and location

78
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Contact Insecticides

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Only kill parts of the organism they contact

79
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Systemic Insecticides

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Move (translocate) from the site of application to another site where they become effective

80
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Contact vs stomach poison

A

One kills on contact, on kills when consumed.

81
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Broad spectrum (non-selective) insecticides vs selective

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Selective works only on certain pests. Broad spectrum works on several different pests but can damage beneficial insects as a consequence.

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