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Most common manner of treating for lice?
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| Spraying during the Fall, Winter, and Spring months |
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| What type of treatment system is better for treating sucking lice rather than biting lice?? |
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| Systemic pour-on or spot on |
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| What insect order is not involved in the transmission of any disease to either man or animals? |
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| Adults of this mosquito genus are characterized by maxillary palps as long as the proboscis? |
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| Larvae of all members of this fly family must be associated with a living host in order to successfully complete their life cycle... |
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| Which is a biting fly species responsible for considerable annoyance/irritation to cattle in feedlots? |
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| Males of this fly family may be blood feeders? |
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| Plague is primarily the disease condition of who? |
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| Which fly is a vector of the protozoan pathogen responsible for leucocytozoon disease of turkeys? |
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| Which fly gives birth to live larvae? |
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| Which sly is the primary vector for horse stomach worms? |
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| What is not recommended for premise fly control? |
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| Of the choices given, which is the parastitic insect is the host most hos specific? |
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| Transmission of the viral pathogen of Equine Infectious Anemia of horses by stable flies is an example of which type of disease transmission? |
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| What mosquito genera is a vector of human malaria? |
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| Adult populations of this biting fly species may be partially controlled by the use of self applicatory control devices? |
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| During which of the following months would you most expect to find grubs encysted in the backs of cattle in the Bryan/College Station area? |
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| Which fleas would you most expect to encounter as a pest of humans in an urban enviroment in the US? |
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| Which flies may be controlled by the sterile male technique? |
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| Females of which mosquitos may deposit eggs in soil depressions subject to periodic inundation of water by rainfall or flooding? |
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| Which is the most common species of Lice infesting poultry in the US? |
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| Which bots will encyst beneath the skin on the ventral abdominal surface of dog and cats in rural environments? |
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| Which host is not infested by a species of sucking louse? |
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| Larvae of what mosquito genera are characterized by the absence of an air tube? |
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| What louse species infesting cattle would you not expect to control by systemic treatment of the host with a recommended insecticide? |
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| biting cattle louse, or really any host specific BITING lice. Systemic treatment is most effective on sucking lice |
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| Larvae of what wound-infesting flies is characterized by pigmented trachael trunks? |
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| Which is the most economically important stage of the sheep ked? |
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| Types of Treatments for lice (2) |
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Topical: powder/dust, not as uniform as it needs to cover ENTIRE body.
Systemic: absorbed from skin surface into blood stream. *Preferred. Pour-on or Spot-on. |
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| 3 species od lice on humans |
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All Sucking
Human Head Louse
Human Crab Louse
Human body louse - rare |
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| Characterisitcs of Fleas (Siphonaptera) |
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wingless obligatory, ectoparasite or birds/mammals
adaptations: wingless, laterally flat, compound eyes
stay on host, not entirely host specific
blood feeders
COMPLETE metamorphosis. |
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3 stylets
cutting maxillae |
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Ctenocephalides felis (cat flea)
Ctenocephalides canis (dog flea)
Are either of these fleas capable of disease transmission? |
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| Neither are known to transmit dieases only may serve as interm hosts for double-pored tapeworm of dogs. Allergic reactions have been seen as well. |
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| Which flea is known for being on the host it's entire life, and attached only while feeding? |
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| Which fleas are known for female permanent attachment to the host? |
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| What flea species is known for the female burrowing under the skin surface? |
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| Chigoe flea - Chiggers, or Jiggers |
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| Which fleas are known for being on the host only to feed, but also found in host premises? |
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| What are the disadvantages to fleas on animals? |
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irritation, annoyance
anemia, blood loss, "flea anemia", lethargy
allergies
tapeworms |
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| they are the eggs of tapeworms. they live in the digestive tract of the host and are expelled in the feces, thus can be ingested by other animals and the cycle continues. |
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| Which flea is known to be a vector of Bubonic and Urban Plague throughout the world? |
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| Oriental Rat Flea - due to it's ease of becoming "blocked"-bacteria forming an obstruction. |
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| Which flea inspired the sailor's oath "I'll be Jiggered!"? |
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| Chigoe: Tunga penetrans. "jigger" |
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| Which flea species is the primary vector of Rural Plague among the various host species? |
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