6-10 PREVENTION OF FLIES AND MOSQUITOS Flashcards
WHAT IS THE MOST WIDELY DISTRIBUTED INSECT OF IMPORTANCE TO MANKIND?
HOUSE FLY
WHAT INSECT IS:
- GRAY IN COLOR
- GRAY THORAX
- 4 EQUALLY BROAD, DARK LONGITUDINAL STRIPES
- NON BITING/SPONGING MOUTHPARTS
HOUSE FLY
WHAT CAN CARRY MANY DISEASE ORGANISMS OR CAUSE MYIASIS?
HOUSE FLY
- ALSO KNOWN AS THE BLUE-BOTTLE OR GREEN BOTTLE FLIES
- LARGE METALLIC SHINING BLUE OR GREEN ABDOMENS
BLOW FLY
WHAT ARE THE BLOW FLY LARVAE CALLED?
SURGICAL MAGGOTS
THE LARVAE OF THE BLOW FLY CAN CAUSE?
MYIASIS
WHICH INSECT IS THIS:
- ONLY FEMALES HAVE PIERCING MOUTHPARTS FOR SUCKING BLOOD
- WILL INVADE DWELLINGS IN THE EVENINGS AND NIGHT
SAND FLY
THE DISEASE THESE FLIES TRANSMIT TO MAN ARE:
- BARTONELLA
- PAPPATACI FEVER
- LEISHMANIASIS
SAND FLY
- FOLD THEIR WINGS IN A SCISSOR LIKE FASHION
- CHARACTERISTIC DISCAL CELL IN THE WING
- PROMINENT BITING MOUTHPARTS
TSE TSE FLY
WHAT INSECT IS CAPABLE OF TRANSMITTING TRYPANOSOMIASIS?
TSE TSE FLY
WHAT INSECT IS:
- DARK IN COLOR
- STOUT BODY
- SHORT, BROAD WINGS
- LEAVES A LARGE BIT WOUND
BLACK FLY
WHAT INSECT IS CAPABLE OF VECTORING ONCHOCERCIASIS (RIVCER BLINDNESS)?
-BLACK FLY
WHAT INSECT HAS:
- POWERFUL WINGS
- INFLICT PAINFUL BITES
HORSE OR DEER FLY
WHAT INSECT IS KNOWN TO VECTOR:
- ANTHRAX AND TULAREMIA
- TRYPANOSOMES
- LOA LOA/LOASIS/AFRICAN EYE WORM
HORSE OR DEER FLY
- PREDILECTION FOR EYE SECRETIONS
- ATTRACTED TO WOUNDS, PUS, SEBACCEOUS SECRETIONS
- NO DISEASE SIGNIFICANCE, TROUBLESOME TO MAN
EYE GNATS
CONTROL METHODS FOR HOUSE AND BLOW FLIES:
THE PROBLEM MAY BEST BE CORRECT BY:
- REMOVING OR CONTAINING GARBAGE
- CONTROLLING ANY NEARBY BREEDING SOURCES
CONTROL METHODS FOR SAND FLIES
-ELIMINATE POTENTIAL BREEDING SITES NEAR INFESTED AREAS
CONTROL METHODS FOR BLACK FLIES
-APPLICATION OF LARVICIDES TO THE STREAMS WHERE IMMATURE FORM ARE DEVELOPING
- LYRE SHAPED SILVER-WHITE LINES ON THE THORAX
- WHITE BANDS ON THE TARSAL SEGMENTS
AEDES AEGYPTI
WHICH INSECT TRANSMITS:
- DENGUE FEVER
- YELLOW FEVER
- TULAREMIA
- FILARIAL SPECIES
AEDES AEGYPTI
- WINGS THAT ARE SPOTTED
- REST THEIR HEAD, THORAX, AND ABDOMEN IN A STRAIGHT LINE
ANOPHELES
WHICH INSECT TRANSMITS MALARIA?
ANOPHELES
- OCCUR IN TROPICAL REGIONS
- BREED IN QUITE WATER, SEWAGE
- EGGS DEPOSITIED IN RAFTS OF 100 OR MORE
CULEX
WHICH INSECT TRANSMITS ENCEPHALOMYELITIS?
CULEX
MOSQUITO CONTROL METHODS ARE CLASSIFIED AS BEING EITHER:
PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY
WHAT ARE PERMANENT CONTROL METHODS FOR MOSQUITOS MEANT TO DO?
ELIMINATE BREEDING AREAS
WHAT ARE PERMANENT CONTROL METHODS FOR MOSQUITOS MEANT TO DO?
KILL PRESENT POPULATION
WHICH FLEA IS A ENDOPARASITE?
CHIGEO FLEA
WHAT IS THE CHIEF VECTOR OF BUBONIC PLAGUE AND TYPHUS?
ORIENTAL RAT FLEA
WHAT ARE THE GENERAL PROTECTIVE MEASURES FOR FLEAS?
- AVOID INFESTED AREAS
- WEAR PROTECTIVE CLOTHING
- INSECT REPELLANT
WHEN APPLYING RESIDUAL SPRAYS AS EMULSIONS OR SUSPENSIONS ON FLOOR, RUGS, AND WALL SURFACES HOW HOW UP DO YOU SPRAY?
2 FEET ABOVE THE FLOOR
TREATMENT OF FLEA BREEDING AREA:
TO PREVENT ENTRIES INTO STRUCTURES, SPRAY THE FOUNDATION TO A HEIGHT OF?
2-3 FEET
WHEN FLEA BORNE DISEASES ARE PRESENT, RAT BURROWS SHOULD BE DUSTED WITH AN _____ PRIOR TO CONDUCTING RODENT CONTROL MEASURES.
INSECTICIDE
- IDENTIFIED BY HARD COVERING
* *WHAT IS HARD COVERING CALLED?**
HARD TICKS
-SCUTUM
WHAT INSECT CAUSES:
- LYME DISEASE
- ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTER FEVER
- TICK BORNE RICKETTSIOSES
HARD TICK
- HIDES IN CRACKS, CREVICES OF HOUSE OR NESTS
- COMES OUT AT NIGHT TO FEED
- LACKS A SCUTUM
SOFT TICK
WHICH INSECT CAUSES:
-BACTERIAL INFECTION THAT CAUSES A RECURRENT, “RELAPSING”, FEVER WITH HEADACHE, MUSCLE AND JOINT ACHES, AND NAUSEA
SOFT TICK
CONTROL METHODS FOR TICKS
- AVOID INFESTED AREAS
- WEAR PROTECTIVE CLOTHING
- INSECT REPELLENT
- REMOVE ALL TICKS FROM BODY
- CLEAR VEGETATION
- APPLY INSECTICIDE
WHAT INSECT BURROWS INTO THE HORNY LAYER OF THE SKIN?
SCABIES OR ITCH MITE
WHAT INSECT: -INFESTS DRY FOODS CAN CAUSE: -DERMATITIS -RESPIRATORY COMPLICATIONS -UTI -GI ISSUES
FOOD INFESTING MITES
- LIVES WITHIN NESTS OF BIRDS AND RODENTS
- ONLY BITES MAN WHEN DEPRIVED OF NORMAL HOST
NEST INHIBITING MITES
WHAT INSECT IS CAPABLE OF VECTORING RICKETTSIAL POX FROM MOUSE TO MAN?
HOUSE MOUSE MITE
WHAT ARE THE THREE STAGES OF MITE MATURATION?
- LARVA
- NYMPH
- ADULT
HOW MANY LEGS DO MITE LARVA HAVE?
ADULTS?
LARVA-6
ADULTS-8
WHAT IS THE TREATMENT FOR MITES ON MAN?
- ELIMITE
- HEAT STERLIZATION OF CLOTHING AND BEDDING
- FLAT, REDDISH-BROWN, WINGLESS, SUCKING MOUTHPARTS
- NOCTURNAL FEEDERS
- BITES PRODUCE SMALL,HARD, WHITE SWELLINGS (WHEALS)
- HIDE IN SEAM OF MATTRESS/BEDDING
BED BUGS
WHERE DO YOU APPLY PESTICIDE FOR BED BUGS?
- SIDES/SEAMS OF MATTRESSES
- RACKS
- CORNERS OF BUNKS
- EMPTY LOCKERS
- SPRINGS
- CANVAS BOTTOMS AND GROMMETS
- STANCHIONS
- BEHIND ALL EQUIPMENT CLOSE TO BULKHEADS
