Pest Control Jeopardy

Pest Myths

100

This food is the best bait for catching mice.

What is Cheese?

200

This pest only feeds during Dusk and Dawn.

What is a Mosquito?

300

"My house is clean, we are not dirty people"

What is "i should not have bugs/roaches"?

400

These very small common spiders are the most venomous spiders.

What is Daddy Long Legs?

500

This ant eats wood.

What is a Carpenter Ant?

Identifications

100

This a spider with a necrotic venom with medically significant venom in North America. While typically light to medium brown, they range in color from whitish to dark brown or blackish gray. A black line coming from it that looks like a violin with the neck of the violin pointing to the rear of the spider, resulting in the nicknames fiddleback spider, brown fiddler, or violin spider.

What is a Brown Recluse Spider?

200

These parasitic insects are of the cimicid family. Adults are about 3/16” long and reddish-brown, with oval-shaped, flattened bodies. Although they prefer feeding on humans, it will also bite other warm-blooded animals, including dogs, cats, birds and rodents. It has done so since ancient times; they are mentioned in medieval European texts and classical Greek writings back to the time of Aristotle.

What is a Bed Bug?

300

This Ant is a native species, found throughout the United States. It earns its name by producing a "rotten coconut" odor when crushed. They are often confused with the pavement ants, but has only 1 node.

What is an Odorous House Ant?

400

The typical worker is about 12 mm (0.5 in) long, with alternating bands on the abdomen; These species have lance-like stingers with small barbs, and typically sting repeatedly, though occasionally a stinger becomes lodged and pulls free of the body; the venom is primarily only dangerous to humans who are allergic or are stung many times. All species have yellow or white on their faces and their legs hang down noticeably while they're in flight.

What is a Yellow Jacket?

500

This insect is also known as the shade roach or black beetle. They are shiny, blackish-brown species that measure approximately 25 to 32 in length. The wings of adult male cover two-thirds of the abdomen. They can often be found around decaying organic matter, and in sewers, drains, damp basements, porches, and other damp locations. They can be found outside in bushes, under leaf groundcover, under mulch, and around other damp places outdoors.

What is a Oriental Cockroach?

Acronyms

100

IPM

What is an Integrative Pest Management?

200

EOM7

What is Every Other Month 7?

300

DLB

What is a Direct Liquid and Bait

400

PVA

What is a Plan vs Actual?

500

RAC

What is an Rollins Acceptance Company?

Save Cancels

100

This is the first line of "defense".

What is Orkin Pro?

200

This second line of "defense".

What is CSS?

300

This is the third line of "defense".

Who is Service manager or Branch Manager?

400

It is ______ job to save customers form canceling

What is everyone?

500

Everytime you speak to a customer you are building this.

What is a relationship/trust?

Safety

100

The amount of "points of contact" when on a ladder.

What is three?

200

800 is the goal

What is mentor score?

300

The most important thing when working in heat.

What is staying hydrated?

400

This is what you use any time you are working with chemicals.

What is nitril gloves?

500

This is what you use when working with aerosols or when fumigating.

What is a mask or respirator?