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What is Tagmosis?
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Grouping of segments into functional units, such as head, thorax, and abdomen
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Nerve cord is located...
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Ventrally
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Muscles are normally...
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Striated
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Arthropods can be divided into the...
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Chelierate and mandibulate
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Crustacea
Body segments... |
2, cephalothorax, abdomen
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Crustacea
Antenna... |
Two
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Crustacea
Mouthparts... |
Three pair
Mandibles, first and second maxillae |
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Crustacea
Legs (number, type) |
Five or more
Biramous |
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The common name for members of the subfamily Phlebotominae
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Sand fly
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Sand flies are in the family...
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Psychodia
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List the genus of sand flies
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New World = Lutzomyia
Old World = Phlebotomus |
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What diseases are carried by the sand fly (name three, one has two types)
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Leishmaniasis (including kala azar and dum dum fever)
Bartonellosis Pappataci fever |
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The family Simuliidae is also known as...
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Black flies
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Black fly larvae are found...
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...in running water
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Black flies carry what disease organism? What type of organism is the disease? What is the name of the disease it causes?
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Onchocera volvulus
nematode Onchocerciasis or river blindness |
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What is the common name of the ceratopogonidae? (List three variants.)
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Biting midges, punkies, no-see-ums
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Ceratopogonidae larvae are found in what type of habitat?
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Aquatic
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Typhus is caused by what type of organism?
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Rickettsia
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Epidemic typhus: list the organism and vector
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Rickettsia prowazekii, lice
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Murine typhus is also known as...
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Endemic typhus
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Murine typhus: list the organism and vector
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Rickettsia typhi, fleas on rats (murine = rodents)
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Scrub typhus: list the organism and vector
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O. tustsugamushi, harvest mites
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Queensland tick typhus: list the organism and vector
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Rickettsia australis, ticks
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Members of the genus Glossina are known as...
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Tsetse
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The two major tsetse are (list species name)
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Glossina palpalis, Glossina morsitans
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Tsetse vector which disease agent? What disease does it cause in humans?
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Trypanosoma brucei, African sleeping sickness
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Tsetse vector what two diseases to animals?
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Nagana, surra
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Tsetse lifecycle...
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Viviparity, 3 larval instars, 1 larva at a time
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Yellow fever is vectored by...
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Ae aegypti
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Yellow fever's causitive agent is a...
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RNA virus
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What three scientists are associated with yellow fever?
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Carlos Finlay, Walter Reed, Jesse Lazear
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Chikungunya is vectored by...
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Ae spp.
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Chikungunya's causitive agent is a...
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Virus
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The reservoir for Chikungunya is...
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monkeys, humans
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Dengue fever is vectored by...
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Ae. aegypti
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Dengue fever's causitive agent is a...
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Virus
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Malaria is vectored by...
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An. spp.
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Malaria's causitive agent is... (genus, type)
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Plasmodium, protozoa
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List the four most common Plasmodium and indicate which is the most fatal.
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P. falciparum (most fatal), P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae
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How many cases of malaria were there in 2009? How many deaths?
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225 million cases, 781 k deaths
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Filariasis is caused by what type of organism?
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Nematodes
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List the three major causitive agents for lymphatic filariasis.
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Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, Brugia timori
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Lymphatic filariasis is often results in which disease?
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Elephantiasis
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Which species of mosquito vector lymphatic filariasis?
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Cu spp., Ae spp., An spp., Mansonia spp.
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What disease is vectored by deer flies?
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Loa loa or the eye worm
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List the two causitive agents for subcutaneous filariasis, as well as their vectors.
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Loa loa or the eye worm, deer flies.
Onchocera volvulus, onchoceriasis, black flies |
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Body lice vector what three diseases?
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Epidemic typhus, Trench fever, Relapsing fever
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Epidemic typhus is notable for its role in which war?
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Napoleonic wars
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Trench fever is notable for its role in which war?
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WWI
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What causitive agent is responsible for trench fever? What group does it belong to? What vectors it?
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Bartonella quintana, Rickettsia, body lice
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What causitive agent is responsible for relapsing fever? What is it related to? Where is it especially found? What vectors it?
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Borrelia recurrentis, Lyme disease, developing nations, body lice
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The species name for the common cattle grub
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Hypoderma lineatum
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The species name for the northern cattle grub
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Hypoderma bovis
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Adult cattle grubs cause cattle to...
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gad
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Cattle grub eggs are laid...
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on hair
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Common cattle grubs feed, as 2nd instars and higher, on the...
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mucous membrane of the esophagous
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Northern cattle grubs feed, as 2nd instars and higher, on the...
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tissue in the spinal column
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Cattle grub larva must be treated before what instar?
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2nd
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What pest cuts a hole for breathing in cattle?
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2nd instar cattle grub
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The species name for the horse bot fly
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Gasterophilus intestinallis
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What causes the eggs of the horse bot fly to hatch?
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Licking
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Where would you find the first instar larvae for the horse bot fly?
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In the tongue for 3-4 weeks
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Where would you find the second instar larvae for the horse bot fly?
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In the stomach
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What pest cuts a hole for breathing in cattle?
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2nd instar cattle grub
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The species name for the horse bot fly
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Gasterophilus intestinallis
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What causes the eggs of the horse bot fly to hatch?
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Licking
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Where would you find the first instar larvae for the horse bot fly?
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In the tongue for 3-4 weeks
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Where would you find the second instar larvae for the horse bot fly?
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In the stomach
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Where would you find the third instar larvae for the horse bot fly?
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In the stomach
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How do horse bot flies become pupae?
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The third instar larvae are defecated, then crawl out of the feces to pupate
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What do adult horse bot flies eat?
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Nothing
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Ixodes dammini = Ixodes ______
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scapularis
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List the vector for Lyme disease in the Western US.
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Ixodes pacifica
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List the causitive agent for Lyme disease in the US.
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Borrelia burgdorferi
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List the causitive agent for Lyme disease in Europe (there are two).
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Borrelia afzellia, Borrelia garinii
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Who identified the causitive agent for Lyme disease? Which year?
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Burgdorfer, 1982
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When was Lyme disease named? Why?
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1975, after Lyme CT due to number of cases
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List the vector for babesiosis
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Deer ticks
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List the vector for anaplasmosis
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Deer ticks
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_________ is secreted by the corpora allata
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juvenile hormone
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_________ is secreted by the corpora cardiaca
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prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH)
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_________ is secreted by the prothoracic glands
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ecdysone
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pharate
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Once new exoskeleton has formed, the insect is ready to shed what's left of its old exoskeleton. At this stage, the insect is said to be pharate, meaning that the body is covered by two layers of exoskeleton.
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This hormone triggers ecdysis, the physical process of shedding the old exoskeleton.
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eclosion hormone
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neurosecretory cells in the ventral ganglia secrete _____, a hormone that causes hardening and darkening of the integument (tanning)
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bursicon
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List the causitive agent of Chagas disease. What vectors it?
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Trypanosoma cruzi, Assassin bugs (or kissing bugs) in the genera Triatoma and Rhodnius
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Tularemia can be vectored by which fly?
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Tabanidae
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Anthrax can be vectored by which fly?
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Tabanidae
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Yaws can be vectored by...
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Eye gnats
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Conjunctivitis can be vectored by...
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eye gnats
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the Oriental rat flea
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Xenopsylla cheopis
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The caustivie agent for bubonic plague.
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Pasturella pestis
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Yellowfever mosquito
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Aedes aegypti
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Asian tiger mosquito
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Aedes albopictus
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Southern house mosquito
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Culex quinquefasciatus
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Lone star tick
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Amblyomma americanum
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American dog tick
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Dermacentor variabilis
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Horn fly
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Haematobia irritans
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Face fly
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Musca autumnalis
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Stable fly
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Stomoxys calcitrans
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Cattle biting louse
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Bovicola bovis
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Little blue cattle louse
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Solenopotes capillarus
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Longnosed cattle louse
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Linognathus vituli
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Hog louse
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Haematopinus suis
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Northern fowl mite
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Ornithonyssus sylviarum
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America's First Native Entomologist
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William D. Peck - 1795
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Father of American Entomology
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Thomas Say (1787-1834) - Published the first useful classic in 3 volumes "American
Entomology, or descriptions of the insects of North America". |
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Father of Economic
Entomology |
Thaddeus William Harris ( 1796-1856)
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_____ accepted a position with the U.S. Agricultural Division
of the Patent Office. |
Townend Glover
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_______ became the first state entomologist when he accepted a
newly created position with the state of New York. |
Asa Fitch
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A leading
teacher in entomology and helped found the first university department of entomology in the world. |
John Henry Comstock, Cornell University, NY (1874-1931) -
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________ replaced Townend Glover
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1878 - Charles Valentine Riley
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Who suggested that resistant American rootstocks be used to control grape phylloxera in France?
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Charles Valentine Riley
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Who conceived and directed the biological control of the cottony cushion
scale? |
Charles Valentine Riley
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________ largely credited with the growth and
efficient operation of the Bureau of Entomology |
1894 - Dr. Leland O. Howard
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Due to the leadership of _______, third Bureau
Chief, congress passes the Plant Quarantine Act. |
1912 - Charles L. Marlatt
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When was Agricultural Research Service (ARS) formed?
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1953
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Morrill Land - Grant College Act
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1862 - donated 30,000 acres of
federal land for each U.S. senator and representative for the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where leading subject areas of agriculture and mechanical arts were to be taught. |
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______ was invited from Germany and he became the
first regular teacher of Entomology at Harvard; he subsequently established the first Entomological Museum. |
1867 - Hermann Hagen
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Hatch Act
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1887 - supported state agricultural experiment stations
throughout the U.S. |
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Smith-Lever Act
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1914 - created the Federal-State Extension Service.
Thaddeus H. Parks was the first extension entomologist, hired by the University of Idaho. |
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First entomology society
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1842-1844 Entomological Society of Pennsylvania - first of its type.
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American Entomological Society founded in...
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1859
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Association of Economic Entomologists was formed in...
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1889
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Entomological Society of America was formed in...
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1906
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Pure Food Act
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1906
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Insecticide Act
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1910 - preventing misbranding and adulteration
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Food and Drug and Cosmetic Act
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1938 (Supersedes Pure Food Act of
1906) - tolerances established under Food and Drug Administration (FDA) |
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Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
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1947 -
(Supersedes Insecticide Act - 1910) |
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Fossorial legs
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digging
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Natatorial legs
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swimming
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Saltatorial legs
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jumping
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Raptorial legs
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grasping
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Cursorial legs
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running
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Ambulatorial legs
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walking
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Obtect
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Exarate
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Coarctate
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Coarctate
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Eruciform
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Campodeiform
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Elateriform
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Vermiform
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