Fleas, ticks, and mites

Question 1

This type of fleas is an exception for ectoparasites burrowing into skin of host, between toes, under toe nails, and in tender part of feet?

Answer 1

Chigoe flea

Question 2

What type of pest are ectoparasites of birds and mammals, small and laterally compressed, hard-bodied insects lacking wings, adapted to jumping and feeding usually once a day?

Answer 2

Fleas

Question 3

This type of flea is a vector of bubonic plaque and flea borne typhus via Norway and roof rats, most abundantly in S. California in summer and fall and scarce in winter?

Answer 3

Oriental rat flea

Question 4

What are the control methods for fleas?

Answer 4

Protective measures by avoiding infested areas

Treating breeding areas in buildings, yards + under buildings with residual sprays/emulsion

Question 5

How high should you apply residual sprays as emulsions on floor,rugs and wall surfaces when treating fleas?

Answer 5

2 feet above the floor

Question 6

These type of pest are ID by distinct hard covering called scutum, attaches to host during feeding and remain until engorgement is complete, adult females takes single blood meals before dropping off the host to digest the blood:

Answer 6

Hard ticks

Question 7

How many hosts do hard ticks have during development?

Answer 7

2-3 hosts

Question 8

These type of pests can transmit lyme disease, rocky mountain spotted fever (tick typhus), and tick-borne rickettsioses of eastern hemisphere:

Answer 8

Hard ticks

Question 9

Theses types of pests lack scutum, hides in cracks and crevices in houses or in nests, feed at night, the adult female leaves eggs after each feeding:

Answer 9

Soft ticks

Question 10

What type of diseases do soft ticks transmit?

Answer 10

Bacterial infection that causes relapsing fever with HA, muscle + joint aches, and nausea

Question 11

What are the control methods for ticks?

Answer 11

Avoid infested areas
Wear PPE clothing
Apply insect repellent
Remove all ticks found on body
Clear vegetation from infested areas
Apply insecticides early in the years

Question 12

Which pest must you avoid infested areas, clear vegetation, and apply insecticide early in the year?

Answer 12

Ticks

Question 13

This type of mite is transmitted by close body contact, overcrowded areas, barrows into horny layer of dermis, causes intense itching and occasionally erythema:

Answer 13

Scabies or itch mite

Question 14

This type of mite infests dry foods such as bread, cheese, cereals, and smoked meat, has medical importance such as experienced dermatitis respiratory complications, UTI, + GI issues:

Answer 14

Food infesting mites

Question 15

This type of mite lives within nests of birds and rodents and only bite man when deprived of their normal hosts, the house mouse mite is capable of transmitting rickettsial pox:

Answer 15

Nest inhabiting mites

Question 16

What are the 3 stages of mite maturation?

Answer 16

Larva
Lymph
Adult

Question 17

What are the control methods for mites?

Answer 17

Apply residual pesticide
Personal repellent + clothing repellent
Control infested foods by disposing, sanitizing, and using residual sprays

Question 18

What is used to treat mites parasitic on man?

Answer 18

Elimite shampoo

Heat sterilization of clothing and bedding

Question 19

What type of pest infest warm blooded animals, not know to vector human diseases, annoy/affect morale, flat, reddish-brown, wingless sucking mouthparts, nocturnal feeders, will bite producing small hard white swellings (wheals), and hide in seams of mattresses and bedding?

Answer 19

Bedbugs

Question 20

What are controlling methods for bedbugs?

Answer 20

Pesticide application

Question 21

Where should you apply pesticide to control bedbugs?

Answer 21

Sides and seams of mattresses, racks, corners of bunks, empty lockers, springs, canvas bottoms/grommets, stanchions, behind all equipment close to bulkheads