Pmt #4 Prevention Of Stored Pest Products, Fleas, Ticks, Mites, Bedbugs, And Rodents

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This pest is less common than beetles, though able to readily infest all farinaceous products with larvae.

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Indian Meal Moths

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The female of this pest lays between 100 and 300 eggs and requires 6 to 8 weeks to go from egg to adult stage.

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Indian Meal Moths

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The larvae of thise pest spins web.

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Indian Meal Moths

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This pest has a copper luster on the outer two-thirds of their wings.

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Indian Meal Moths

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T or F
The Confused and Red Flour beetle are similar in appearance.

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True

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This pest is called "Tribolium" beetles

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Flour Beetles

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This pest is shiny, flattened, reddish brown.

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Flour Beetles

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The head and upper parts of thorax on this pest are densely covered with minute pitting.

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Flour Beetles

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The wing covers for this pest are ridged lengthwise.

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Flour Beetles

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The female of this pest lays an average of 440 eggs in her lifetime.

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Flour Beetles

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The eggs of this pest are covered with a sticky secretion and adhere to the sides of sacks and boxes.

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Flour Beetles

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This pests' hairs on outside of the larvae can cause intestinal trauma, eye irrication, dermititis, and allergic reaction

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Dermestid Beetle

(Khapra Beetle)

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This insect is a quarantineable insect.

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Dermestid Beetle

(Khapra Beetle)

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This pest, as an adult, is oval shaped.

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Dermestid Beetle

(Khapra Beetle)

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This pest is reddish brown with pale markings on the wing covers.

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Dermestid Beetle

(Khapra Beetle)

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This larvae is resistant to starvation.

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Dermestid Beetle

(Khapra Beetle)

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This pest can liver for several years without food.

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Dermestid Beetle

(Khapra Beetle)

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This is the most commonly found storage products pest aboard ship.

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Saw-tooth grain beetle

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This is a slender, flat brown beetle that is 2.5 m in length.

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Saw-tooth grain beetle

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The torax of this pest bears six saw-toothed projection on each side.

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Saw-tooth grain beetle

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This female can lay as many as 280 small, white, and slender eggs in a lifetime.

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Saw-tooth grain beetle

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This pests' eggs hatch in 3-4 days and the adult goes from egg to adult in one month.

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Saw-tooth grain beetle

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This adult lives 6-10 months.

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Saw-tooth grain beetle

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What are some food items with high insect infestation potential?

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MACARONI
Grits
Farina
Cornmeal
Dry mix
Barley
Cookie/cake mix
Flour
Dry beans/peas
Ready-to-eat cereal

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When sampling of food items, use _______ sampling method.

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Random

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When sampling food items, at what point would you inclease samplings?

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When infestations are found

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When sampling food items, open boxes and remove packages and plastics bags _______.

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Slowly

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When sampling food items, take sample to inspect from the _______ area of the pallet.

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Inner

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When sampling food items, you would observe samples for the following:

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1) Seams in sacks.
2) Pinholes in boxes and plastic bags.
3) Insect feces.
4) Webbing.
5) Cast skins.
6) Larval forms.
7) Adult insects.

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When sampling food items, what items are at high risk?

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Close to or past expiration date

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Monthly routing sanitation inspections by the medical department to include ____ storage spaces.

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All

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Check itsms that have a high insect infestation _________.

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Potential

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ensure broken containers, torn sacks, and spilled food are promptly ______ from storeroom.

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Removed

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Stock rotation will help prevent ____________.

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Infestations

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Ifn insects are found, separate infested supplies and notify who?

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Supply Officer

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If a small quantity of dry stores are found to be lightly infested with less than ____ beetles per pound (other than dermestid species and flour beetles), the infested item whould be removed immediately places in a freezer space for at least ____ days and used as soon as possible thereafter.

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7 insects

3 days

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Two weeks at ____ degrees F is required to kill all stages of the insects.

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0 degrees F

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If the dry stores are infested with:
___ living or dead dermestid larva
___ flour beetle adults or larva/pound
___ 7 insects (adult/larvae) of any kind/pound

what would need to happen?

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Unfit for consumption

Dispose of the product.

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Fleas are ectoparasites of _____ and ________.

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Birds

Mammals

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What is the exception to fleas being ectoparasites?

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Chigoe

Burrowing into the skin of host

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This pest has a small, laterally compresed, hard-bodied insect that lacks wings, but are equipped with legs, especially adapted for jumping.

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Fleas

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This pest feeds at intervals, uaually once a day.

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Fleas

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This pest is the chief vector of bubonic plague and flea-borne typhus.

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Oriental rat flea

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This pest was introduced in all sections of the world with Norway and roof rats.

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Oriental rat flea

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This pest is most abundantly found in the sea and southern California.

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Oriental rat flea

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This pest is predominantely found in the summer and fall, becoming scarce in the winter months.

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Oriental rat flea

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What are the general protective measures in regard to the control of fleas?

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Avoid

Protective clothing

Repellant

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In regard to fleas control, in infested buildings, apply residual spray as emulsions or suspensions on floor, rugs, and on wall surfaces to a height of about _____ above the floor.

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2 feet

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In regard to fleas control, flea infested areas, such as yards and under buildings should be treated with what?

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Residual emulsion

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In regard to fleas control, to prevent entries to structures, spray the foundation to a height of _______.

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2-3 feet

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In regard to fleas control, when flea-borne diseases are presented, ___ _______ should be dusted with an insecticide prior to rat control measures.

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Rat burrows

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What pest is identifyable by their distince hard covering called the scutum.

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Hard tick

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This pest attaches to a host during feeding and remain there before engorgement is completed.

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Hard tick

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This pests' larvae and nymph take only one blood meal each.

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Hard tick

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This pests' adult female takes a single blood meal before dropping off the host to digest the blood and lay a single large batch of eggs.

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Hard tick

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Hard ticks have how many hosts during their development?

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2-3

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Hard ticks are the vector of what diseases?

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Lymes Disease

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (Tick typhus)

Tick-borne Rickettsioses of Eastern Hemisphere

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Which pest lacks a scutum?

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Soft tick

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This pest hides in cracks and crevices in houses or in nests of their host and comes out at night to feed on the blod of the host for a short period of time.

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Soft tick

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This pests' larva and nymph feed several times before molting.

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Soft tick

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this pests' adult female feeds a number of times, laying a small batch of eggs after each feeding.

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Soft tick

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This pest if the disease vector for relapsing fever.

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Soft tick

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The soft tick is the disease vector for what?

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Relapsting fever

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What are the control methods for ticks?

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Avoid

Protective clothing

Repellent

Remove from body

Clear vegitation

Insecticides

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What are a few other names for mites?

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Scabies

Itch mite

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How is a mite transmitted?

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Close body contact

Overcrowding

Burrows (horny layer of dermis)

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This pest causes intense itching and occasionally erythema.

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Mites

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In regard to food infecting mites, they infest what types of foods?

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Dry foods

Bread
Cheese
Cereals
Smoked meats

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In regard to next inhabiting mites, they live in nests of birds and rodents and only bite man when deprived of what?

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Normal hosts

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In regard to nest inhabiting mites, the house mouse mite is an important member of this group, capable of vectoring what from mouse to man?

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Rickettsial pox

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Medically speaking, what can mites cause?

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Dermititis
Respiratory complications
URI
GI

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What are the three stages of mite maturation.

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Larva

Nymph

Adult

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How many legs doe sthe mite larva have?

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Six

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What do mite larva feed on?

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Lymph

Serous fluid

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the nymph and adult stages of mites have how many legs?

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Eight

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How do you chemically treat for mites?

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Elimite

Head sterilization (cloths/bedding)

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What are the control mesures for mite infested foods?

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Disposal

Sanitation (food storage/handling areas)

Residual sprays

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Bedbugs infests who?

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Warm blooded animals

Influding man

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Bedbugs are known to vector what human disease?

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None known

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Bedbugs are annoying and can seriously affect what?

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Morale

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Bedbugs are flat, reddish brown, wingless with _______ mouthparts.

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Sucking

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When do bedbugs feed?

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Night

Nocturnal

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When bedbugs bite, they will produce a small, hard, white, swellings called what?

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Wheals

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Bedbugs will hide in the _____ of mattresses and bedding.

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Seams

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Bedbug pesticide application will be to what items?

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Sides/seams mattresses

Racks

Corner of bunks

Empty lockers

Springs

Canvas bottoms/grommets

Stanchions

Behind all equip/close to bulkheads