The term Anautogenous refers to: correct answers Requirement of a blood meal for egg production
How long can adult fleas remain inside the cocoon (usually)? correct answers 4-5 months
"According to lecture, approximatly how many species of fleas are recognized? " correct answers 2048
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the term anautogenous refers to correct answers requirement of a blood meal for egg production
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The term Anautogenous refers to: correct answers Requirement of a blood meal for egg
production
How long can adult fleas remain inside the cocoon (usually)? correct answers 4-5
months
"According to lecture, approximatly how many species of fleas are recognized? " correct
answers 2048
"Aside from bacteria, fleas commonly vector which organism? " correct answers
Cestodes
What is responsible for a flea s jumping ability? correct answers Resilin
"Of the following species, which is considered to be the most economically significant?"
correct answers Ctenocephalides felis
Which of these mosquito species is not capable of transmitting malaria in the United
States? correct answers An. gambiae
Musca domestica falls into which suborder? correct answers Brachycera
Which of these is not an amplification host of Rift Valley Fever? correct answers
Passerine birds
Which organ is used to emerge from a pupal casing in Diptera? correct answers
Ptilinum
When does mosquito mating occur? correct answers a few days after adult emergence
"According to your reading, the study of mosquitoes is known as: " correct answers
Culicidology
Females of what flea species burrow into human skin, causing intense irritation and
often more serious complications? correct answers Tugna penetrans
What is "flea dirt"? correct answers blood-rich fecal pellets
Which answer represents one of the four aims of mosquito control? correct answers
minimize mosquito-vertrate contact
Which fly was almost renamed the typhoid fly by Leland Howard? correct answers
house fly
,What family has the most flea species of medical and veterinary importance? correct
answers pulicidae
Piophilidae are commonly known as: correct answers skippter flies
Possible food for a mosquito larvae could be... correct answers small organisms
How can you tell male mosquiotes from female mosquitoes? correct answers males
have plumose antennaes
Mosquito pupae are commonly know as what? correct answers tumblers
What highly elastic protein is responsible for the extreme jumping ability seen in
Siphonaptera? correct answers resilin
"According to your reading, which group is divided into the acalyptratae and calyptratae
flies? " correct answers schizophora
What percent of all known fleas feed on mammals? correct answers 94
All of the following help characterize the morphology of Siphonaptera, EXCEPT: correct
answers filiform antennae
What virus causes encephalitis and is reservoired in horses? correct answers
Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis
Flea larvae usually have how many instars? correct answers 3
What larval stage of filarial nematodes that is circulated in the blood and infect female
mosquitoes taking a bloodmeal? correct answers 3rd stage
Which genus has eggs that can survive/tolerate dessication? correct answers Aedes
spp.
Yersinia pestis causes: correct answers plague
Which of these is the genus and species of the Dog Flea? correct answers
Ctenocphalides canis
Female fleas are: correct answers Anautogenous
Larval fleas have what type of mouthparts? correct answers Chewing
Which of these is not a flea assoicated issue? correct answers Mange
, Which of these is the genus and species of the Oriental Rat Flea? correct answers
Xenopsylla cheopis
What filarial nematode is responsible for Heartworm disease in dogs? correct answers
Dirofilaria immitis
In what genus of mosquitoes do the females not bloodfeed? correct answers
Toxorhynchites spp.
What is the structure that acts a sheath for mosquito stylets? correct answers Labium
Fleas serve as the intermediate host for what helminth? correct answers Dipylidium
caninum
What is the causative agent of murine typhus? correct answers Rickesttsia typhi
The female mosquito prefers to land on which body parts of a host? correct answers
head and legs
The tiny modified hindwings that are located behind the insertins of the wings are called
what? correct answers halteres
The outer most layer of the egg shell is reffered to as what? correct answers chorion
Which mosquito is the major vector of Malaria? correct answers Anopheles gambiae
What are the enlarged lymph nodes characteristic of plague called? correct answers
buboes
Most Ctenocephalides felis bites on humans occur in what area? correct answers Near
ankles
Which family only contains species that exhibit obligatory myiasis? correct answers
Oestridae
Why are wildlife and livestock at greater risk of attack by myiasis-causing flies than
humans? correct answers Greater exposure and tendency to have untreated open
wounds
"Calloiphoridae, Sarcophagidae and Tachinidae all fall into which superfamily? " correct
answers Oestroidea
Australian frog flies fall into which family? correct answers Chloropidae
Which virus does not use birds as a reservoir host? correct answers VEE
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