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what is the most important insect activity for humans?
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pollination
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female gamete?
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pistil (stigma & style)
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male gamete?
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stamen (anther & filament)
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how are pollen grains transferred
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wind or by insects
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which insects are the best pollinators? why?
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honey bees, they're very manageable
tend to visit the same plant species |
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accessory structures on plants to attract pollinators
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petals, fragrances, flowers grouped together, trip wires
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honey bee scientific name
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apis mellifera
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honey bee society
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queen bee (lay eggs)
workers (sterile females, do all work, forage for pollen & nectar) drones (males; mating) |
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queen bee
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royal jelly
maintain order in the hive pheromone to suppress reproductive development of workers |
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virgin queens nuptial flight
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drone follows pheromone
can mate in flight with a dozen drones after that never mates again |
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2 types of bee dances
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round dance
wangle dance |
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how do insects give venom?
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stingers
piercing mouthparts penetration of nettling hairs fluids on our hands after crushing them poisoning animals when swallowed |
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how are they vectors of disease?
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pathogens in food
transporting pathogens from filth & dead animals into eyes, lips, etc putting pathogen in a host animal into skin, feces, open wound, etc |
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vector of malaria
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mosquito
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yellow fever vector
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mosquito
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dengue vector
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mosquito
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Encephalitis
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mosquito
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mosquito order
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diptera
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mosquito body parts
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2 narrow wings
pair of halteres slender body, long legs long mouthparts for piercing and sucking |
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malaria parasite
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plasmodium
infects/destroys red blood cells |
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symptoms of malaria
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fever and chills
destruction of red blood cells perspiration |
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whats injected into the skin during malaria
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sporozoites
merozoites |
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dengue fever
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viral infection
causes skeletal pain, fever, chills |
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yellow fever symptoms
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flu like symptoms, possibly severe hepatitis
bleeding from mouth, eyes, &or stomach black puke bloody feces yellowing of skin (jaundice) |
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epidemic typhus vector
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from lice
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endemic typhus
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rat flea
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typhus symptoms
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pain in muscles, headache, fever, chills, coughing
dark rash confusion |
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bubonic plague symptoms
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high fever
headaches muscular aching shaking, chills pain in groin and armpits (swollen nodes) infected lungs |
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early stage of lyme disease
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rash, flu-like symptoms
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second stage of lyme disease
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severe headaches and fatigue, heart palpitations, facial drooping, dizziness, confusion/forgetfulness, prickilly feeling
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3rd stage of lyme
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WORST headaches
joint/muscle pain, problems w/ nervous system trouble walking blindness |
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what is the kiss of death?
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chagas disease, spread by the assassin bug
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source of infection for the kiss of death
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ingest infected blood of the host animal
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symptoms of kiss of death
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swelling around bite
enlarged lymph glands fever heart damage paralysis of gut, difficulty swallowing sever constipation |
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treatment of kiss of death
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just avoid bug bites
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IPM
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integrated pest management
protect crops only use chems when necessary |
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6 steps of ipm
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1) identify target
2) understand bio of pest 3) periodic sampling 4) action thresholds 5) choose control tactics 6) evaluate results |
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killer bee origin
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brazil, breed with honey bees, accidentally let out
then went to venezuela, then tx |
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vbd
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vector borne disease
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basic insect structure
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head, thorax, 3 pairs legs, 1 pr antenna
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pathogens
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bacteria, virus, fungi, protozoa, worms
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role of epa
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development of pesticides, release, etc.
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role of who
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implement, develop, support countries with diseases like malaria etc, get bed net for these people, etc
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what does epa stand for
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environmental protection agency
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what does fda stand for
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food and drug administration
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endemic definition
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a disease that occurs all the time in a specific area of a population
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epidemic
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appears as new cases in a given population, during a given time! a rate exceeding what is "expected"
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what does who stand for
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world health organization
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most advanced social insect
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ant
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where is the highest population of lyme disease in the us
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northeast
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what disease is effected the most by temperature
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malaria
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necrophagous
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eating corpses
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부정부패 (-행위)
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Irregularities and corruption (- act/ behavior)
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coprophagous
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insects eat the feces of dead animals
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task @ larval stage
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eat food
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insect blood
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hemolymph, without oxygen
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what does ccd stand for
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colony collapse disorder; worker bees in a colony suddenly disappear
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vector of lyme disease =
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deer tick
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