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NAVMED P 5010 CH 8 Flashcards

ENTOMOLOGY & PEST CONTROL TECHNOLOGY

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WHAT DOES (DVECC) STAND FOR?

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Disease Vector Ecology and Control Centers

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Refers to organisms, primarily arthropods and rodents

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DEFINITION OF A VECTOR

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Provides specialized support in the area of stored products pest management

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Entomologist

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4
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Who must attend pest control training?

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THE SEL MDR & PMT Corpsman

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5
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How often is shipboard pest control training conducted?

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Once a year.

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Is any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest

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Definition of Pesticides

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Acaricides, avicides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, molluscicides, nematocides, rodenticides

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Are Shipboard Pesticides

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A substance used to control mites, scorpions, spiders, ticks and related organisms

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Acaricides

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A substance used to control fungi

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Fungicides

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A substance used to control un-desired vegetation

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Herbicides

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A substance used to control insects, sometimes used in a broader sense to include the control of arthropods other than insects.

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Insecticide

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Used to control the adult stage of an insect

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Adulticide

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Used to control the larval stage of an insect.

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Larvicide

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Used against the egg stage of an insect.

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Ovicide

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Used to control snails and other mollusks

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Molluscicide

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Used to control rodents.

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Rodenticide

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Are compounds of mineral origin and mainly include arsenic, copper, mercury, sulfur or zinc

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Inorganic pesticides

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Are a group of synthetic organic compounds with one or more chlorine atoms. Chlordane, dieldrin, and DDT are examples

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Chlorinated hydrocarbons

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Synthetic compounds containing phosphorous

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Organophosphates

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Are synthetic compounds of salts or esters of carbamic acid. Carbaryl and propoxur are examples

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Carbamates

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Are pesticides of plant origin. Pyrethrums and rotenone are examples.

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Botanical

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They are effective for penetrating cracks and crevices. They may be used around electrical equipment or power

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Oil Solutions

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Consists of droplets of an emulsifiable pesticide dispersed in a diluent in such a way as to prevent separation of the two components

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Suspension of liquid or solid particles in air

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Used only in airtight spaces which prevent dissipation

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Gases and Vapors

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What is a Simulium spp.?

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What is Phlebotomus spp.?

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What is Glossina spp.?

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Tsetse Fly

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What is a (Sarcophagi and Wohlfahrtia)?

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What is a Musca domestics?

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A House fly

31
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What is Moderately Toxic? (How much does it take to administer death)

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50-500 mg/kg

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What is a Periplaneta americana?

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American cockroach

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What is a Supella longipalpa?

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Brown-banded cockroach

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What is a Blatella germanica?

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German Cockroach

35
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Are responsible for the transmission of louse-borne typhus, trench fever and louse-borne relapsing fever

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Human Lice

36
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Generally most frequently associated with disease transmission, mosquitoes are

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Aedes, Anopheles and Culex

37
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First in importance among the insects that transmit disease to man

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Mosquitoes

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What is a Hippelates?

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What is a Tabanus, Chrysops, etc.?

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Horse and Deer Fly

40
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What is a Periplaneta australasiae?

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Australian cockroach

41
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They are known to transmit diseases to man and animals.

42
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What is Rhipicephalus sanguineus?

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The brown dog tick

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What is Xenopsylla cheopis?

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The oriental rat flea

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What vector transmits the Plague?

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The oriental rat flea

45
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What is Tunga Penetrans?

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Burrowing flea

46
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What flea needs an animal hosts to breed?

47
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What is a Rattus norvegicus?

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The Norway, brown or gray rat,

48
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What is Rattus rattus alexandrines?

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The Roof rat

49
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How does the Navy prevent rodents from boarding ships?

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Rat Guards

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What is the minimum diameter of a rat guard?

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36 in diameter

51
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Where should the rat guard be mounted?

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At least 6 feet from the closet point on shore or ship.

52
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What certifies a Navy vessel that there is no rats, on-board?

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Deratization Certification

53
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Neurotoxic come from what?

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black widow spiders

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Cytolytic come from what?

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brown recluse spider

55
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Hemolytic come from what?

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horse flies

56
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Are venomous arachnids that rarely sting man, and then, only when provoked?

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