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How many wings does a fly have?

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2 wings (1pair)

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What insect is the vector for diseases that kill more people in the world than any other insect?

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Mosquito

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Flies have what kind of metamorphosis?

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Complete

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What kind of fly is also known as a mausoleum or coffin fly?

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Phorid fly

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What fly is often affiliated with damp potting soil?

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Fungus Gnat

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Blow, Flesh, Phorid and Soldier Flies found in a home often means what?

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Dead animals

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Cluster flies are often drawn to a structure at what time of year?

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Spring and Fall

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How many stripes does a house fly have on its thorax?

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4

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What kind of mouthparts does a house fly have?

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Sponging

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Name four types of mouthparts an insect may have

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Chewing
siphoning
sponging
piercings-sucking

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Where do mosquitoes lay there eggs?

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Water or damp soil

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Name three diseases mosquitoes may spread?

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Malaria
west Nile
dengue

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Cluster flies are parasitic on what

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Earthworms

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What fly has golden hair on the sides of its thorax

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Cluster fly

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What is a carrion feeding fly

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Flies that feed on dead animal carcass

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What kind of metamorphosis do all moths have

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Complete

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What kind of metamorphosis do all Beatles have

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Complete

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Warehouse, Khapra ,varied carpet, hide, furniture Beetles are in what family

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Deemestid

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What is the most common stored product moth we encounter

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Indian meal moth

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Name another moth that is a stored product pest… do you know what each of these look like?

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Angoumois grain moth - yellowish white wings fringed hind wings

Indian meal moth - is pale too dark colored front wings

20
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What makes a sawtooth grain beetle unique when identifying

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Six sawtooth projections along thorax on each side

21
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Between a confused flour beetle and a red flour beetle which one can fly? guess what the other one can’t!

A

Red flour beetle

22
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What are those little spiders that look like spiders

A

Spider Beetles

23
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There are 10 control methods for stored product pests name five

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Monitor 
identify 
rotation of goods 
sanitation 
mechanical 
fumigate 
residual treatment
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When using cold to kill an infestation of stored product pests what is key

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Instant freeze and length of time

25
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What group of Beatles have a long snout (proboscis) with mouthparts and Antenna at the end

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Weevils

26
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What insects are in the order Isoptera

A

Termites

27
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What helps termites digest wood

A

A protozoa in there gut

28
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What is the most common termite species in the US

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Eastern subterranean

29
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Which termites swarm at night

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Dark Western Drywood
light Western
and Formosan

30
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What is the largest termite species

A

Damp wood

31
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Beatles and boarers or in what order of insects

A

Coleoptera

32
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What Beatle attacks hardwood only, creates hole 1/32 to 1/8 inch and leaves silky smooth frass without pellets

A

Lyctid beetle powder post

33
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What insect leaves galleries in the wood that are smooth and without mud

A

Carpenter ants

34
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Cockroaches have what kind of metamorphosis

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Gradual

35
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Why are German cockroaches so successful

A

High reproductive rate
carry egg
resistant to chemicals

36
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What do brown banded cockroaches do with their eggs

A

Stick eggs too objects

37
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What is a cockroach egg called

A

Ootheca

38
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Cockroach nymphs are called what

A

Instars

39
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Eggs per Ootheca

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German 30-40
oriental -16
American - 14
Brown Banded 14-18
Smokey brown 20 - 28
40
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What are carrion flies

A

Filth flies they feed on dead carcasses

41
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How much does a mouse eat in a day

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One 10th of an ounce of food

42
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How much does a rat eat each day

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1 to 2 1/2 ounces of food

43
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What does a rat use its tail for

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Balance and temperature control

44
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What does commensal mean

A

To share food sharing one’s table

45
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What mouse can carry hantavirus

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White footed

46
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How do anti-coagulant rodenticides affect rodents

A

Thin blood causing internal bleeding until dead

47
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Is tuberculosis a rodent borne disease

A

No

48
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How long does it take a Norway and roof rat to reach sexual maturity

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Norway rat takes 8 to 12 weeks or three months

Roof rat similar less pups at birth

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