Parasites and insects

Question 1

What is the most common physical form used in administering antiparasitic compounds to horses?

Answer 1

Paste

Question 2

What is the least safe class of dewormer?

Answer 2

Organophosphate

Question 3

Parasites that attack the skin and body openings of the host are called what?

Answer 3

External parasites or ectoparasites

Question 4

About how much money is spent on fly control each year in the U.S.

Answer 4

$270 million dollars

Question 5

What are two species of lice infestation of the horse?

Answer 5

Haematopiuns and the Damalinia Equi

Question 6

Where on the horse do “bot eggs” hatch?

Answer 6

In the horse’s mouth

Question 7

What are “Musca Domestica?”

Answer 7

House flies

Question 8

What do male and female stable flies eat?

Answer 8

blood

Question 9

What is the toxic material from the blister beetle?

Answer 9

Cantharidian

Question 10

What insect causes Lyme disease?

Answer 10

Ticks

Question 11

What is the foundation for any successful fly control program?

Answer 11

Sanitation

Question 12

What is the most feasible, non-chemical means of breaking the life cycle of the fly?

Answer 12

Removing breeding material

Question 13

Tiny eight-legged relatives of spiders that cause dermatitis and intense itching which we call mange are called what?

Answer 13

Mites

Question 14

What insect is the most detrimental to horses when they contaminate forage?

Answer 14

Blister beetles

Question 15

What is the Latin name for bloodsucking stable flies?

Answer 15

Stomoxys calcitrans

Question 16

What is the Latin name for face flies?

Answer 16

Musca autumnalis

Question 17

What is the Latin name for horn flies?

Answer 17

Haemalobia irritans

Question 18

How long is the average life cycle of a mosquito?

Answer 18

10-14 days

Question 19

What is the latin name for the throatbot fly?

Answer 19

Gastrophilus nalasis

Question 20

What is the range of amount of eggs a female bot fly lays?

Answer 20

150-500

Question 21

True or False? The female botfly lays eggs on the horse’s hair.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

What is the latin name for the sarcoptic mite?

Answer 22

Sarcoptes scabiei varequi

Question 23

Does the mite that causes psoroptic mange burrow beneath the skin?

Answer 23

No

Question 24

What do blister beetles cause?

Answer 24

Fluid filled eruptions

Question 25

True or False? Blister beetles dwell in Timothy hay?

Answer 25

False, they dwell in Alfalfa hay

Question 26

Parasites that live in the internal organs, body cavities and tissues are called what?

Answer 26

Internal parasites or endoparasites

Question 27

How many internal parasites are known to affect the horse?

Answer 27

More than 150

Question 28

What is the most common type of internal parasite in the horse?

Answer 28

Strongyles

Question 29

How long is the cycle of a round worm?

Answer 29

92 days

Question 30

What is the length of the roundworm lifecycle?

Answer 30

3 months

Question 31

Stomach bots are the larvae of what fly?

Answer 31

Bot

Question 32

What are the stomach bots?

Answer 32

Larvae of the bot fly

Question 33

How long is the entire life cycle of the bot fly from egg to adult?

Answer 33

One year

Question 34

What type of worms causes a severe irritation around the tailhead?

Answer 34

Pinworms

Question 35

What is another name for strongyles?

Answer 35

Blood worms

Question 36

Tapeworms occur in what age horses?

Answer 36

All ages

Question 37

What is another name for ascarids?

Answer 37

Roundworms

Question 38

What is another name for strongyloides?

Answer 38

Threadworms

Question 39

Strongyloides are found in what age foals?

Answer 39

4-47 days