Flies

Question 1

management of filth flies

Answer 1

source reduction!!!

Question 2

univoltine

Answer 2

1 generation per year

Question 3

multivoltine

Answer 3

several generations per year (all life stages always present)

Question 4

moth flies

Answer 4

• small
• gray and fuzzy
• tent-like wings
• vestigial mouthparts (can’t bite)

Question 5

fruit flies

Answer 5

• small
• brown and yellow
• wings flat
• sucking mouthparts (can feed but not bite)

Question 6

habitat of moth fly and fruit fly larvae

Answer 6

semi-aquatic (eat slime)

Question 7

stable flies

Answer 7

• piercing and sucking mouthparts
• bite legs of mammals –> on host <5%
• economic pest of cattle

Question 8

house flies

Answer 8

• sponging-sucking mouthparts (can’t bite)

- vector fecal-borne microbes

Question 9

dung pat breeders

Answer 9

• breed only in fresh cattle dung pats

- horn fly, face fly

Question 10

confinement breeders

Answer 10

• stable fly

- house fly

Question 11

horn fly

Answer 11

• blood sucker
• cattle&raquo_space; horses
• economic losses

Question 12

face fly

Answer 12

• non biting
• annoy cattle, horses
• mechanical vector (moraxella bovis)
• biological vector (thelazia)

Question 13

stupid horn fly management phrase

Answer 13

aim for horn fly by 4th of july (-_____-)

Question 14

source of horse and deer flies

Answer 14

swamp mud

Question 15

source of mosquitos

Answer 15

shallow, still water

Question 16

source of blackflies

Answer 16

flowing water

Question 17

source of biting midges

Answer 17

dairy lagoons

Question 18

tabanidae

Answer 18

• horse flies, deer flies
• cutting-sponging mouthparts
• reduce thriftiness
• mechanical vectors of blood-borne pathogens (anaplasma, anthrax, tularemia, EAI)
• 1 life cycle per year

Question 19

habitats of tabanids

Answer 19

• adults active in day, outdoors only

- males get carbs from plants, females need carbs and blood

Question 20

mosquitos

Answer 20

• females attack mammals, birds, reptiles
• lots can reduce growth rate, feed conversion
• vector lots of things (west nile, EEE/WEE/VEE, filarids)
• piercing-sucking proboscis

Question 21

2 subfamilies of mosquitos

Answer 21

• culicinae (short palps, vector viruses, nematodes)

- anophelinae (long palps, vector plasmodium)

Question 22

mosquito larvae

Answer 22

• still, shallow water
• “breathe” at surface
• feed on particles at surface or below

Question 23

blackflies

Answer 23

• family simuliidae
• cutting-sponging mouthparts
• annoy and irritate, deaths in outbreaks by exsanguination (blocks coagulation)

Question 24

blackfly habitats/life cycle

Answer 24

• females attack hosts outdoors, daytime only
• vector pathogens
• eggs in running water

Question 25

ceratopogonidae

Answer 25

• biting midges
• cutting-sponging mouthparts (painful bites)
• biological vectors
• adults are nocturnal, diurnal, or crepuscular
• eggs in swamps, lagoons

Question 26

phlebotaminae

Answer 26

• sand flies
• scales on body and wings
• biting proboscis
• active day or night
• rodent hosts
• vectors for leishmania