Lesson 6.1: Major Vertebrate Pests and Their Characteristics Flashcards
The primary species of vertebrate pests that damage our crops .
rats and birds
Vertebrate Pests that are considered minor problems.
bats,
monkeys, deer, wild pigs, and rabbits
Vertebrate Pests that are incredibly
destructive on major crops like rice, corn, coconut, root crops, and grains, whether in the field or
storage.
Rats
Major crops that are incredibly distructive by rats.
rice, corn, coconut, root crops, and grains
Major Vertebrate Pests that can reduce the rice crop yield.
Birds
Are animals having spinal cord surrounded by cartilage or bone
Vertebrates pest
Refers to the bone that make up the spine or backbone which runs from the
head to the tail along the dorsal side of the body and comprising the vertebral column.
“vertebrae”
The core
of the vertebral column
endoskeleton which includes the skull that encloses and protects
the brain of the animal.
The vertebrates pest is belong to what phylum
Phylum Chordata
Vertebrates pest is belong to what kingdom?
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata of the Kingdom Animalia is consist of ?
mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
There are two classes of the Phylum Chordata having pest species that are
economically important in agriculture and human welfare.
Class Aves
Class Mammalia
What class does birds belong?
Class Aves
What class that rats, bats, monkeys, deer, wild pigs, and
rabbits belong?
Class mammalia
What order does rats or rodents belong?
Order Rodentia
Order rodentia is known as?
“gnawing
mammals.”
known as “flying mammals” which belong to Order Chiroptera
Bats
monkeys,
lemur, and apes is belong to what what order?
Order Primates
The other vertebrate pests, deer and wild pigs are belong to what order?
Order Artiodactyla
rabbits is belong to what order?
Order Lagomorpha
Their body is covered with
feathers and they possess a beak or bill that is used for pecking, eating, feeding the young,
killing prey, grooming, and making nest.
Birds
Have distinct physical features as a class.
Birds
Parts of birds adapted for walking, perching, grasping, hopping, swimming, and wading.
Hind limbs
Species of birds that are known to feed on rice commonly known as black-headed munia, chestnut munia, weaver bird, or “maya,” is considered
the most destructive bird pest in the Philippines.
Lonchura malacca
Also found in Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia,
China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Burma, Nepal, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
black-headed munia
Birds pest where has black, brown, or chestnut or dark brown color.
black-headed munia
Average length of black-headed munia
11-12 cm
Sex of black-headed munia where they only one sing?
Male
It is a storage pest in warehouses and could replace L. malacca as a major
pest in rice fields. In fact, it is mistakenly identified as the maya bird.
Passer
montanus
The common name Java sporrow
Padda oryzivorra
