We created this fun quiz so that you can test your knowledge on Stored Product Pests! Take the “Stored Product Pests True or False Quiz” below and compare your answers to the answer key at the bottom of this post. Good luck!
- It has been estimated that stored product pests damage about 10% of the world’s food supply each year.
- True
- False
- Many times, stored product pests will be infesting individual kernels of the grain.
- True
- False
- It is not important to have good seals on windows for the exclusion of stored product pests.
- True
- False
- Tall grass outside a facility has absolutely no effect on the pest management of that facility. In fact, it helps keep insects outside.
- True
- False
- A dead bird or animal near a facility is very likely to draw pests – so regular, exterior maintenance is very important.
- True
- False
- Sodium lights on the walls of a facility are a much better choice than mercury vapor lights because high pressure sodium lights have 95% less “blue wave” which is the element that attracts insects.
- True
- False
- Monitoring for insects is one of the tried and true methods that can detect problems with stored product insects.
- True
- False
- You should not place pheromone traps within 30 feet of loading docks, doors, and other entryways into a facility because the pheromones in these traps might actually attract pests into the facility.
- True
- False
- The life cycle of a cigarette beetle may be as much as 3 to 9 years.
- True
- False
- Although no one likes to discover Indian Meal Moth adults in a food box, it is not the adults that cause the damage – it’s the larva.
- True
- False
ANSWER KEY:
- True
- True
- False
- False
- True
- True
- True
- True
- False
- True