Answers to the "Test Your Pest Control IQ" Test.

1. b) Termites infest 600,000 homes a year, damaging $800 million dollars in property.

2. a) True.  Fleas have killed more people than all the wars every fought, as carriers of the bubonic plague that killed over a third of the population of Europe.

3. b) A German cockroach can survive a month or more without food, but less than 2 weeks without water.

4. c) Without pest control, food production would drop by as much as one-third.

5. d) A 10 percent drop in food production may increase retail prices by 7.5 to 15 percent, and that's an additional $42 on a person's food bill.

6. d) In one day, $2.5 million of property is damaged by rats and mice.

7. a) Two fleas multiplying under ideal conditions for 9 months have the potential to produce 2 trillion descendants.

8. d) Under optimum conditions, one female cockroach can produce 2 million offspring in one year.

9. a) Pest control measures protect us from 15 major diseases, including food poisoning, bubonic plague, rat bite fever, rabies and malaria.

10. c) 452 homes could have been built with the amount of wood that termites chewed in 1988.

Source: National Pest Management Association, Inc.