Quick-reference summaries for the Michigan Category 7A General Pest Management exam
FIFRA, NREPA, Reg 636, Reg 637 sub-rules, school applications, and applicator licensing.
Sprayers, nozzles, pressure, calibration, fogging, dusting, and traps.
Pest management approaches, IPM components, thresholds, and resistance.
Food-handling pest management, treatment types, and specialized facility procedures.
Arthropod classes, insect anatomy, classification ranking, and the three life stages.
Cockroach species ID, egg cases, habitats, baits, and IPM control strategies.
Ant species identification, ant vs. termite differences, harborage, and control strategies.
Stored-product pests (primary/secondary/moldy categories) and fabric pests (carpet beetles + clothes moths).
Bristletail biology, the four common species, and IPM control strategies.
Cat flea life cycle, fleabite allergy, IGRs, and effective control strategies.
Diptera order, large flies (housefly, face fly, flesh fly, blowfly, cluster fly) and small flies.
Paper wasps, yellow jackets, hornets, honeybees, carpenter bees, and mud daubers.
Black widow, brown recluse, yellow house spider, web-weavers, and wandering spiders.
Ticks (Lyme, RMSF), mites (scabies, dust, bird), bedbugs, human lice, and imaginary infestations.
Centipedes, millipedes, crickets, sowbugs/pillbugs, earwigs, and other structural invaders.
Norway rat biology, diseases, inspection signs, and control tools (sanitation, exclusion, trapping).
House mouse biology, diseases, inspection signs, and the mouse-specific control toolkit.
Pigeons, starlings, house sparrows, fungal diseases, exclusion, trapping, and legal protections.
Bats, tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, moles, snakes, skunks, and more.
