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UNIT 6- PREV MED TEST 1 > 6-10 PREVENTION OF FLIES AND MOSQUITOS > Flashcards

6-10 PREVENTION OF FLIES AND MOSQUITOS Flashcards

1
Q

WHAT IS THE MOST WIDELY DISTRIBUTED INSECT OF IMPORTANCE TO MANKIND?

A

HOUSE FLY

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WHAT INSECT IS:

  • GRAY IN COLOR
  • GRAY THORAX
  • 4 EQUALLY BROAD, DARK LONGITUDINAL STRIPES
  • NON BITING/SPONGING MOUTHPARTS
A

HOUSE FLY

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3
Q

WHAT CAN CARRY MANY DISEASE ORGANISMS OR CAUSE MYIASIS?

A

HOUSE FLY

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  • ALSO KNOWN AS THE BLUE-BOTTLE OR GREEN BOTTLE FLIES

- LARGE METALLIC SHINING BLUE OR GREEN ABDOMENS

A

BLOW FLY

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5
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WHAT ARE THE BLOW FLY LARVAE CALLED?

A

SURGICAL MAGGOTS

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6
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THE LARVAE OF THE BLOW FLY CAN CAUSE?

A

MYIASIS

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WHICH INSECT IS THIS:

  • ONLY FEMALES HAVE PIERCING MOUTHPARTS FOR SUCKING BLOOD
  • WILL INVADE DWELLINGS IN THE EVENINGS AND NIGHT
A

SAND FLY

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8
Q

THE DISEASE THESE FLIES TRANSMIT TO MAN ARE:

  • BARTONELLA
  • PAPPATACI FEVER
  • LEISHMANIASIS
A

SAND FLY

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  • FOLD THEIR WINGS IN A SCISSOR LIKE FASHION
  • CHARACTERISTIC DISCAL CELL IN THE WING
  • PROMINENT BITING MOUTHPARTS
A

TSE TSE FLY

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WHAT INSECT IS CAPABLE OF TRANSMITTING TRYPANOSOMIASIS?

A

TSE TSE FLY

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WHAT INSECT IS:

  • DARK IN COLOR
  • STOUT BODY
  • SHORT, BROAD WINGS
  • LEAVES A LARGE BIT WOUND
A

BLACK FLY

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WHAT INSECT IS CAPABLE OF VECTORING ONCHOCERCIASIS (RIVCER BLINDNESS)?

A

-BLACK FLY

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13
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WHAT INSECT HAS:

  • POWERFUL WINGS
  • INFLICT PAINFUL BITES
A

HORSE OR DEER FLY

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14
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WHAT INSECT IS KNOWN TO VECTOR:

  • ANTHRAX AND TULAREMIA
  • TRYPANOSOMES
  • LOA LOA/LOASIS/AFRICAN EYE WORM
A

HORSE OR DEER FLY

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  • PREDILECTION FOR EYE SECRETIONS
  • ATTRACTED TO WOUNDS, PUS, SEBACCEOUS SECRETIONS
  • NO DISEASE SIGNIFICANCE, TROUBLESOME TO MAN
A

EYE GNATS

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16
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CONTROL METHODS FOR HOUSE AND BLOW FLIES:

THE PROBLEM MAY BEST BE CORRECT BY:

A
  • REMOVING OR CONTAINING GARBAGE

- CONTROLLING ANY NEARBY BREEDING SOURCES

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17
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CONTROL METHODS FOR SAND FLIES

A

-ELIMINATE POTENTIAL BREEDING SITES NEAR INFESTED AREAS

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CONTROL METHODS FOR BLACK FLIES

A

-APPLICATION OF LARVICIDES TO THE STREAMS WHERE IMMATURE FORM ARE DEVELOPING

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19
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  • LYRE SHAPED SILVER-WHITE LINES ON THE THORAX

- WHITE BANDS ON THE TARSAL SEGMENTS

A

AEDES AEGYPTI

20
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WHICH INSECT TRANSMITS:

  • DENGUE FEVER
  • YELLOW FEVER
  • TULAREMIA
  • FILARIAL SPECIES
A

AEDES AEGYPTI

21
Q
  • WINGS THAT ARE SPOTTED

- REST THEIR HEAD, THORAX, AND ABDOMEN IN A STRAIGHT LINE

A

ANOPHELES

22
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WHICH INSECT TRANSMITS MALARIA?

A

ANOPHELES

23
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  • OCCUR IN TROPICAL REGIONS
  • BREED IN QUITE WATER, SEWAGE
  • EGGS DEPOSITIED IN RAFTS OF 100 OR MORE
A

CULEX

24
Q

WHICH INSECT TRANSMITS ENCEPHALOMYELITIS?

A

CULEX

25
Q

MOSQUITO CONTROL METHODS ARE CLASSIFIED AS BEING EITHER:

A

PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY

26
Q

WHAT ARE PERMANENT CONTROL METHODS FOR MOSQUITOS MEANT TO DO?

A

ELIMINATE BREEDING AREAS

27
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WHAT ARE PERMANENT CONTROL METHODS FOR MOSQUITOS MEANT TO DO?

A

KILL PRESENT POPULATION

28
Q

WHICH FLEA IS A ENDOPARASITE?

A

CHIGEO FLEA

29
Q

WHAT IS THE CHIEF VECTOR OF BUBONIC PLAGUE AND TYPHUS?

A

ORIENTAL RAT FLEA

30
Q

WHAT ARE THE GENERAL PROTECTIVE MEASURES FOR FLEAS?

A
  • AVOID INFESTED AREAS
  • WEAR PROTECTIVE CLOTHING
  • INSECT REPELLANT
31
Q

WHEN APPLYING RESIDUAL SPRAYS AS EMULSIONS OR SUSPENSIONS ON FLOOR, RUGS, AND WALL SURFACES HOW HOW UP DO YOU SPRAY?

A

2 FEET ABOVE THE FLOOR

32
Q

TREATMENT OF FLEA BREEDING AREA:

TO PREVENT ENTRIES INTO STRUCTURES, SPRAY THE FOUNDATION TO A HEIGHT OF?

A

2-3 FEET

33
Q

WHEN FLEA BORNE DISEASES ARE PRESENT, RAT BURROWS SHOULD BE DUSTED WITH AN _____ PRIOR TO CONDUCTING RODENT CONTROL MEASURES.

A

INSECTICIDE

34
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  • IDENTIFIED BY HARD COVERING

* *WHAT IS HARD COVERING CALLED?**

A

HARD TICKS

-SCUTUM

35
Q

WHAT INSECT CAUSES:

  • LYME DISEASE
  • ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTER FEVER
  • TICK BORNE RICKETTSIOSES
A

HARD TICK

36
Q
  • HIDES IN CRACKS, CREVICES OF HOUSE OR NESTS
  • COMES OUT AT NIGHT TO FEED
  • LACKS A SCUTUM
A

SOFT TICK

37
Q

WHICH INSECT CAUSES:

-BACTERIAL INFECTION THAT CAUSES A RECURRENT, “RELAPSING”, FEVER WITH HEADACHE, MUSCLE AND JOINT ACHES, AND NAUSEA

A

SOFT TICK

38
Q

CONTROL METHODS FOR TICKS

A
  • AVOID INFESTED AREAS
  • WEAR PROTECTIVE CLOTHING
  • INSECT REPELLENT
  • REMOVE ALL TICKS FROM BODY
  • CLEAR VEGETATION
  • APPLY INSECTICIDE
39
Q

WHAT INSECT BURROWS INTO THE HORNY LAYER OF THE SKIN?

A

SCABIES OR ITCH MITE

40
Q 
WHAT INSECT:
-INFESTS DRY FOODS
CAN CAUSE:
-DERMATITIS
-RESPIRATORY COMPLICATIONS
-UTI
-GI ISSUES
A

FOOD INFESTING MITES

41
Q
  • LIVES WITHIN NESTS OF BIRDS AND RODENTS

- ONLY BITES MAN WHEN DEPRIVED OF NORMAL HOST

A

NEST INHIBITING MITES

42
Q

WHAT INSECT IS CAPABLE OF VECTORING RICKETTSIAL POX FROM MOUSE TO MAN?

A

HOUSE MOUSE MITE

43
Q

WHAT ARE THE THREE STAGES OF MITE MATURATION?

A
  • LARVA
  • NYMPH
  • ADULT
44
Q

HOW MANY LEGS DO MITE LARVA HAVE?

ADULTS?

A

LARVA-6

ADULTS-8

45
Q

WHAT IS THE TREATMENT FOR MITES ON MAN?

A
  • ELIMITE

- HEAT STERLIZATION OF CLOTHING AND BEDDING

46
Q
  • FLAT, REDDISH-BROWN, WINGLESS, SUCKING MOUTHPARTS
  • NOCTURNAL FEEDERS
  • BITES PRODUCE SMALL,HARD, WHITE SWELLINGS (WHEALS)
  • HIDE IN SEAM OF MATTRESS/BEDDING
A

BED BUGS

47
Q

WHERE DO YOU APPLY PESTICIDE FOR BED BUGS?

A
  • SIDES/SEAMS OF MATTRESSES
  • RACKS
  • CORNERS OF BUNKS
  • EMPTY LOCKERS
  • SPRINGS
  • CANVAS BOTTOMS AND GROMMETS
  • STANCHIONS
  • BEHIND ALL EQUIPMENT CLOSE TO BULKHEADS

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