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What are the two groups of arthropods? |
Insecta and arachnida |
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What are the main characteristics of insecta? |
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What are the groups that fall under insecta? |
hemiptera phthiraptera siphonaptera diptera |
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Which insecta are bugs? |
hemiptera |
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Which insecta are lice? |
phthiraptera
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Which insecta are fleas? |
siiphonaptera |
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Which insecta are flies and mosquitoes?
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diptera |
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Which organisms belong to hemiptera? |
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Which organism is also known as the assassin bug? |
Reduviid bug
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Which organism is also known as the kissing bug? |
Reduviid bug |
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Which organism transmits Chaga's disease?
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Reduviid bugs
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What is the scientific name of Bed bugs? |
Cimex lectularius |
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Which bug can be found in bedding, mattresses, blankets, clothing and luggage? |
Cimex lectularius (bed bugs) |
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Which bug comes out at night to take a blood meal? |
bed bugs |
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T/F: Bed bug bites may become infected with bacteria but don't transfer a specific disease. |
True |
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What is another name for cockroaches? |
Blattella |
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What is the scientific name for cockroaches? |
periplaneta americanus |
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Which bug is associated with filth garbage? |
cockroach |
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What are the 3 types of lice? |
body, head and pubic lice |
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Name the 3 types of lice (scientific name) |
pediculus corporus (body lice) pediculus capitus (head lice) phthirus pubis (pubic lice) |
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Which lice is associated with poor living conditions, over crowding, poor sanitation and hygiene, refugee camps, homeless shelters and concentration camps? |
body lice |
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Which lice can transmit specific disease such as Rickettsia infections (epidemic relapsing fever, epidemic typhus or trench fever)? |
body lice and head lice |
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Which lice is transmitted sexually? |
pubic lice |
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What disease does public lice transmit?
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None. It is a nuisance factor |
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Which organism is also known as the rat flea? |
Xenopsylla cheopis |
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Which organism is known to transmit the bubonic plague but can also transmit murine typhus? |
Xenopsylla cheopis |
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What disease does the Aedes and Anopheles mosquito transmit? |
malaria |
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What are the organisms that belong to the Diptera group? |
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What isthe common name for Simuliidae?
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black fly |
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The black fly transmits which organism and causes what disease? |
Onchocerca volvulus (River Blindness) |
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What is the common name for Tabanidae? |
deer fly |
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Which fly transmits tularemia, anthrax and Loa loa? |
deer fly (tabanidae) |
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Which fly transmits dysentery, typhoid fever, cholera and polio? |
house fly (muscidae) |
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What is the common name for muscidae? |
house fly |
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What is the common name for phlebotomus?
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sand fly |
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Which organism transmits Carrion's disease in South america? |
sand fly
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Which organism transmits Leishmania in Asia and Northern Africa?
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sand fly
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What is the common name for glossina? |
tsetse fly |
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Which organism transmits Trypanosoma brucei? |
tsetse fly |
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Which organism transmits the organism that causes African Sleeping Sickness? |
tsetse fly |
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What is the common name for chloropidae?
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eye gnats |
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Which organism transmits Yaws (Treponema pertenue)? |
eye gnats |
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Which organism can spread pink eye? |
eye gnats |
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Which organism can transmit parasitic round worms? |
biting midges |
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What is the common name for certopogonidae? |
biting midges |
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Which organism is also known as "punkies"? |
biting midges |
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What are the main characteristics of Arachnida?
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What are the species that belong to the arachnida group? |
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Which arachnida can transmit diseases but also infest man as a disease? |
mites |
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Which organism cause scabies by burrowing into the skin causing inflammatory reactions? |
mites |
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Mites can be found in what environment?
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communal living, nursing homes and homeless shelters |
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Ticks are classified as what? |
soft vs. hard shelled ticks |
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What are the hard shelled ticks? |
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What are the soft shelled ticks |
ornithodorus species |
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Which organism transmits lyme disease and babesia? |
ixodes ticks |
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How are ticks differentiated from each other? |
pattern on the backs of the ticks |
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Which organism transmits tularemia and viruses? |
ornithodoros |
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What are the two spiders that can have significant impact on human health in NA? |
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What is the common name for Loxosceles reclusa?
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the brown recluse spider |
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What is the common name for Lactrodectus? |
black widow spider |
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Which black widow spider is common in western US? |
Lactrodectus hesperus |
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Which black widow spider is common worldwide? |
Lactrodectus sp. |
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Which organism produces a chaotic web design and hangs upside down in the web because it's nocturnal? |
black widow spider |
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Which organism is found in wood piles, fence corners and low traffic areas? |
black widow spider |
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Which organism releases a venom that is a neurotoxin? |
black widow spider |
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Which organism likes to hide in closets, clothing and blankets? |
brown recluse spider
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Which organism bites only when disturbed and releases a necrotizing venom? |
brown recluse spider |
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What marker is found on the head region of the brown recluse spider that helps in its identification? |
violin shaped marker |
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Which organism is nocturnal, fast moving, and hides under rocks, wood and leaves? |
scorpions |
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Scorpions are usually located where? |
southwest |
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What is the common name for Centruroides excilicauda? |
bark scorpion |
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Which scorpion is highly venomous? |
bark scorpion |
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What is the common name for Hadrurus arizonensis? |
desert hairy scorpion |
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Which scorpion is venomous but not usually deadly but painful? |
desert hairy scorpion |
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People who are allergic to bee stings may also react to which scorpion venom? |
desert hairy scorpion |
