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Peridomestic pests
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Often native, live outside and don't usually get inside to be pests
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Domestic pests
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Often native to warmer regions so depend on warmth provided by human structures, often transported by people
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Domestic fibre pests
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Many depend on dirty fabric
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Medical pests
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Lice, fleas, plague flies, mosquitoes
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Entomophobia
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fear of insects, studies show baby chimps innately afraid of spiders
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Delusional parasitosis
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Disproportionate irrational fear, convinced body is infested, unexplained dermopathy from people trying to dig insects out of skin
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Brown recluse
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common in midwest, warm/undisturbed places, not aggrssive
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Dog tick
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Rocky Mt. Spotted fever, rickettsial pathogen
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Deer ticks
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Lyme disease, 1st discovered in Lyme Connecticut. Bull eye rash, flu-like symptoms, fatigue, muscle pain, fever, can result in chronic damage
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Worst number of Lyme disease incidents
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Northeast coast
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Tick paralysis
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Fatigue, numbness, muscle ache, paralysis, goes away after tick is out
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Herbivorous (spider) mites
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Encouraged by hot dry weather, produce silk to balloon and move, bad agriculture pest
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Harvest miteschiggers
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Very itchy and take days to heal, scrub typhus carried by chiggers in other parts of world
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Mange mites
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Get under skin of animals
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Scabies mites
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Infect humans
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Zygentoma
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Silverfish
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Desert locust
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Solitary and gregarious forms, has to do with how crowded they were as nymphs
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Field cricket
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nuisance pest
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American cockroach
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not usually household pest, but greenhouse pest
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German cockroach
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most common cockroach pest, likes high humidity (kitchens, bathrooms)
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Human body louse
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Vector for epidemic typhus, lives on clothes then bites
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Epidemic typhus
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Carried by body lice, common in concentrations camps, poor prisons, homeless people
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Cat facing
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When peach is small, bug bites and causes damage
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plant pathogens
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Hemipterans carry tomato curly top virus, pear vein yellow virus, squash mosaic virus
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Lace bugs
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pests of ornamental plants
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Kissing bugs
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carry chagas disease, pathogen mostly in Southern states
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Insidious flower bug
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Tiny, feed on plants but also predators, bite painful
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Brown marmorated stink bug
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from Asia
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Cicadas
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Oviposition damage, eggs laid in tree but nymphs fall to tree roots
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LEafhoppers
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Feed on phloem sap, hopper burn on leaves from saliva
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Potato leafhopper
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Pest of alfalfa/ornamentals, breeds in gulf states but migrates north in spring
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Sooty mold/russeting
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Caused by accumulation of honeydew
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Soybean aphids
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Native to Asia, can reduce yield by 50%, eggs laid on Asian buckthorn overwinter
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Hemlock wooly adelgid
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Native to Asia, defoliates Hemlock
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San Jose scale
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Native to Asia, related to aphids
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Pine needle scale
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Native species, Xmas tree plantation pest
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Mealybug
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Pests of woody plants
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Thrips
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Plant pathogen vector
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Japanese beetles
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Defoliates trees, from Japan, skeletonization of leaves, larvae feed on roots of grasses
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Emerald ash borer
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native to China, kills ash trees
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Cigarette and drugstore beeltes
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Feed on dried products like tobacco
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Sap beetle
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Decaying fruit/fungi/sap, attracted to alcohol
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Dusky sap beetle
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Feeds on corn, parts of beetle in cream corn
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Pine sawyer beetles
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vector of pinewood nematode
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locust borer
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native, wasp mimic, feed on golden rod
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Asian longhorn beetle
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native to China, feeds on most deciduous trees, expected 1/2 trillion damage
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Striped cucumber beetle
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vector of bacterial wilt of curcurbits (melons, cucumbers)
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Boll weevil
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native to Mexico, forced Enterprise Alabama to switch crops and became more prosperous so they erected a statue to it
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Black vine weevil
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Nocturnal, ornamental plant pest, signs include notched leaves
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Bark beetles
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major outbreaks associated with drought, cause fires
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Malaria vector
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Anopheles
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west Nile virus vector
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Culex pipiens
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Filariasis
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elephantiasis, Culex species vector
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Dengue/yellow fever vector
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Aedes spp.
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Worst nuisance mosquito in Illinois
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Inland floodwater mosquito
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no-see-ums/punkies
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Blood feeding fly
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Vectors of tularemia and anthrax
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horse/deer flies
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Leafminer flies
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larvae feed between epidermal layer of leaves
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Stable fly
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vector of tularemia/anthrax, pointy mouthparts, blood feeder
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Horn fly
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Hangs on livestock, larvae live in cow dung, livestock pest
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Face fly
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Pinkeye vector
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Bot/warbler flies
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Live under skin of mammals, holes in skin to breath through, secrete anesthetic
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Gadding
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When animals hear adults and start moving around and jumping to avoid fly
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Horse bot fly
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lay eggs on legs, horses lick up eggs, larvae go into stomach, have hooks on larvae
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Evergreen bagworm
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Females don't have wings but live in 'bags', outbreaks = defoliation
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Coddling moth
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feed on seeds of apple, bore through fruit to get there
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Spruce budworm
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defoliate pine forests
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Green cloverworm
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soybean pest
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Corn earworm other names
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cotton bollworm, tomato fruitworm
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Green clover worm
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Overwinters in South, problems hinge on weather patterns
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Sawflies
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Feed on conifers, forest pest, larvae aggregate
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Carpenter ants
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Make nests in wood but don't feed on it, structural pests
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Management strategy vs Management tactic
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The overall plan vs method used to implement the strategy
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Preventative IMP tactics
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Prevent insect from reaching pest status, such as resistant crops
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Therapeutic IPM tactics
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Resolve current pest problem, such as insecticides
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Qualities of pest species that warrant government intervention
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potential exotic invader, severe economic impact, difficult to control by usual means, causes damage to public lands, requires community-wide effort to control, threatens human health
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Asian longhorned beetle
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From China, came by wooden materials from Asia, these materials supposed to be fumigated but compliance problems, public important in reporting them, cut down/grind up all trees they might infest
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Boll weevil
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Eradication program. Possible to eradicate because can't fly and only feeds on cotton. Native to Mexico
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screwworm fly
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Eradication from Florida via sterile release
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What makes insect species suitable for sterile release
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released insects not direct pests, can be mass reared, susceptible to sterilization, competitive with wild insects, strong disperser, monogomas, no immegration of fertile insects, low density populations
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Species targeted with sterile release
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Aedes aegypti, Asian gypsy moth, Tetse fly, medfly, screwworm
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Stop the spread program used for what species?
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Gypsy moth
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Gain threshold
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Loss of money due to pest = cost of insecticides that could have been used to control it
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