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Texas Public Health Pest Control Exam 2024 Graded A+
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Texas Public Health Pest Control Exam2024 Graded A+
A characteristic contributing to high rat and mouse populations is: - ANSWER-high
reproductive potential.
A house mouse can compress its body and squeeze through an opening as small as -
ANSWER-1/4 inch.
A mechanical vector for a pathogen is: - ANSWER-Not an essential host in the
pathogen's life cycle.
A species of mosquito most commonly found associated with bodies of standing water
that are more permanent in nature such as ponds or lakes and that contain much
surface vegitation is: - ANSWER-Coquillettidia perturbans
Adult flies obtain blood by - ANSWER-sucking.
Adult mosquitoes found resting with the long axes of their bodies being at a 45 - to 90 -
degree angle to the surface upon which they are resting most likely belong to this
genera of mosquitoes: - ANSWER-Anopheles.
Anticoagulants are rodenticides that: - ANSWER-kill by slowing the clotting of blood.
Biting and landing rate counts on humans is not useful in assessing the relative
densities of blood-feeding adult populations of: - ANSWER-Culex p. quinquefasciatus
and Culex tarsalis
Both male and female mosquitoes are blood feeders in the adult stage: - ANSWER-
False.
Certain pests have become important to the public health of humans because they have
developed one or more of the following behaviors: - ANSWER-Synanthropic, defensive,
and parasitic behavior.
Chemical adult mosquito repellents are classified by the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency as insecticides. - ANSWER-True.
Females of mosquitoes belonging to the following genera lay their eggs in rafts of 100
or more eggs per raft on the surfaces of shallow permanent or transient bodies of
standing water. - ANSWER-Coquillettidia
, Houseflies can be distinguished from flesh flies because houseflies have: - ANSWER-
Dark, indistinctly striped thoraxes and grey and tan abdomens.
How do pest animals directly affect the health of people and other animals? - ANSWER-
Only Biting and Parasitizing
In 6 months, one pair of house mice can eat about 4 pounds of food and deposit about
_______________ droppings. - ANSWER-18,000
In terms of their blood meal host preferences, Culex p. quinquefasciatus and Cx.
tarsalis are two medically important mosquito species that prefer to feed on - ANSWER-
Birds mainly and only occasionally on humans and other mammals.
In the cycling of an arthropod-borne disease, the reservoir functions as: - ANSWER-The
host of the pathogen and the source of the pathogen for its vectors.
In the following list which one does not match the disease with one of its most common
mosquito vector in the United States? - ANSWER-St Louis encephalitis: Psorophora
columbiae
In the United States, this species of floodwater mosquito breeds almost exclusively in
artificial containers such as discarded tires, tin cans, and flower pots: - ANSWER-Aedes
aegypti
It is advisable to use the same chemical insecticide to control populations of mosquitoes
in the immature stages as is being used to control the same populations in their adult
stages? - ANSWER-False.
Light traps are good sampling devices to use in assessing the adult population densities
of: - ANSWER-Aedes sollicitans
Long-term, the most successful form of rat control is rat-proofing (building them out). -
ANSWER-True.
Mice avoid anything new that appears in their territory. - ANSWER-False.
Mosquitoes differ from all other insects belonging to the order Diptera in that the adults
of all mosquito species have the following characteristics in common: - ANSWER-a. A
piercing and sucking mouthpart system elongated into a proboscis.
b. Long, Many-segmented antennae
c. Scales on the wing veins and margins
d. All of the above
Most Culex species of public health importance have an effective flight range of about: -
ANSWER-1 to 2 miles.
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