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Biting and Stinging Pests Flashcards

1
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What makes stinging social insects more dangerous and more difficult to control?

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Their mutual defense of the colony. Anyone who ventures too close to a social bee or wasp colony may experience stings not just from one or a few individuals, but possibly dozens to hundreds.

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Unlike most other bees and wasps, ___________ only sting once.

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honey bees

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__________ nests usually consist of 30,000 or more individuals.

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Honey bee

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Very aggressive, swarm frequently, store less honey, and more likely to attack in response to nest disturbance.

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Africanized honey bees (AHBs)

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Nearly identical to AHBs in appearance, but important behavioral differences.

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European honey bees

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6
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Do not build nests in hollow tree trunks or other cavities.

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Bumble bees

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7
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Nests are primarily in underground holes or cavaties.

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Bumble bees

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8
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Solitary bees nest in

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underground holes and existing cavaties in wood and other materials

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9
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Social wasps are known as

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vespids

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10
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Yellowjacket wasps, hornets, and paper wasps are

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social wasps

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Social wasps make paper nests from

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chewed-up wood, paper, or cardboard

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12
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When do social wasps establish colonies

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spring

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13
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When do social wasps abandon colonies

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when winter approaches

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14
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All social wasps are capable of ___________

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stinging

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15
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Social wasps that build their nests below ground, although above-ground nests also occur

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yellowjacket wasps

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16
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Often found near trash cans, these wasps are opportunistic and will eat whatever food is available

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yellowjacket wasps

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17
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Build their nests exclusively above ground and their colonies are usually relatively small containing 300-400 workers

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baldfaced hornets

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18
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Largest social wasp in North America

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European hornet

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19
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Relatively small colonies usually containing fewer than 200 workers

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paper wasps

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20
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What do predator wasps do to their prey?

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stings and paralyzes prey, drags it back to nest then an egg is laid on the paralyzed prey, and the resulting larva develops while ingesting it

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21
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These solitary predators are large and prefer sand and sandy soil for their nesting sites

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cicada killer wasps

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22
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Solitary insects that lay their eggs on, or in, other insects or their eggs, which eventually kills them

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parasitoid wasps

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23
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Not structural pests and do not sting, these insects when found indoors are usually attacking cockroaches or stored product pests, especially moths

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parasitoid wasps

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24
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These flies use their mandibles to cut painful holes in skin

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deer flies, black flies, and biting midges

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25
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Known as pool feeders because they mop up pooling blood from the cuts of their hosts

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horse flies, deer flies, and black flies

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26
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Can transmit tulameria to humans after biting infected hosts

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Deer fly

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27
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Adults are capable of flying long distances which makes chemical control not very effective

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Horse flies and deer flies

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28
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No-see-ums and punkies are common names for

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tiny biting midges

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29
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These mosquitoes prefer to feed at night

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Culex

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30
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These mosquitoes readily bite during the day or in the evening

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Aedes

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31
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Most common indoor flea pests in the U.S.

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cat flea

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32
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Where do fleas lay their eggs?

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On hosts, but the eggs quickly fall to the floor or pet beds

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33
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Where do flea eggs hatch?

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On the floor or pet beds where they fall off host

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34
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Where do fleas spend their entire adult life?

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On single host, unless groomed off

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35
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Why is vacuuming beneficial with a flea infestation?

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Removes flea excrement and can remove up to 30% of flea larvae and 60% of flea eggs in carpet

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36
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An unemerged adult flea can remain inactive in the cocoon for how long under adverse conditions or when hosts are absent?

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4-5 months

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37
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Unemerged adult fleas will respond to what type of stimuli?

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Increased warmth, CO2, or vibrations

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38
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Active flea infestation treatment?

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IGRs combined with short-lived adulticides with a 7-10 day follow up with adulticide, if needed for fleas emerging from pupal stage

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39
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Blood-feeding external parasites with a preference for feeding on humans

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bed bugs

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40
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Signs of a bed bug infestation?

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Molted exoskeletons, fecal stains on mattresses, eggs, and live or dead bed bugs

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41
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What stages of bed bugs feed on blood?

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Nymphs and adults

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42
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Bed bugs nymphs go through five instars and require what before each molt?

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a boodmeal

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43
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Adult female bed bugs require what before laying eggs?

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a bloodmeal

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44
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One of the most important aspects of bed bug control

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monitoring

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45
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Proven especially useful for bed bug monitoring programs?

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Pitfall traps

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46
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Bed bug management is most effective when using

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an integrated approach (monitoring, sanitation, bed and mattress encasements, foot barriers on bed, residual insecticides having two or more modes of action, and various forms of heat treatment)

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47
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Hairs are longer and more noticeable on bed bugs or bat bugs?

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Bat bugs

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48
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In addition to bat bugs, what other bugs are in the same family and may also be mistaken?

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Bird bugs

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49
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These bugs may occasionally bite humans, but require their own special hosts to survive for longer periods of time and to reproduce?

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Bat bugs and bird bugs

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50
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Capable of delivering painful bites, these hemipterans are beneficial predators that mainly feed on other insects?

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Assassin bugs

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51
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Also classified as assassin bugs, these bugs feed exclusively on the blood of vertebrates, including humans

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Conenose bugs

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52
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Nocturnal and may bite people while they sleep, these bugs may bite people on their face since it is exposed giving them the nickname

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“Kissing bugs” aka Conenose bugs

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53
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Capable of transmitting a parasite in their feces which causes Chagas disease aka American trypanosomiasis

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Conenose bugs

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54
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Small, wingless insects in the order Phthiraptera

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lice

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55
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Head lice cannot live for more than __________ off of their human hosts

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two days

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56
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Spiders can be classified in what three types of hunting behaviors?

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Passive hunters, active hunters, and web builders

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57
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Tarantulas, trapdoor spiders, and crab spiders can be classified by what hunting behavior?

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passive hunters: do not spin webs; instead, they sit and wait for prey to pass by

58
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Wolf spiders, ground spiders, jumping spiders, sac spiders, and recluse spiders can be classified by what hunting behavior?

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Active hunters: move about in search of prey

59
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Orb-weavers, cellar spiders, funnel-web spiders, and widow spiders can be classified by what hunting behavior?

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Web builders: use silk to build elaborate structures to entrap or entangle prey

60
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This spider can be identified by its semicircular, paired arrangements of its six eyes

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Brown recluse spider

61
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This spider has a habit of leaving their star-shaped cast skins hanging on timbers and the backs of furniture

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Brown recluse spider

62
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Shy and not naturally agressive, these spiders frequently live in and around structures

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Brown recluse spiders

63
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Spin silk, but webbing of these spiders is minimal and used to return to after hunting and where females lay eggs

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Brown recluse spiders

64
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Venom of these spiders is Necrotic (tissue-killing)

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Brown recluse spiders

65
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Bites from these spiders can be slow-healing sores, disfiguring skin ulcers, severe pain, and occasionally life-threatening complications

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Brown recluse spiders

66
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These spiders get their name from the incorrect belief that the females always eat the males after mating

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Widow spiders

67
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How many structure infesting species of widow spiders are found in all 48 states in the continental U.S.?

A

Four

68
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Egg sacs have spikes all over the surface

A

Brown widows (Black widow spiders have smooth egg sacs)

69
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Males are about half the size of females in these spiders

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Widow spiders

70
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Venom of these spiders is a neurotoxin

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Widow spiders

71
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Venom of these spider bites can cause pain, muscle contractions, cramps, perspiration, increased body temperatures, nausea, and in rare cases, death

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Widow spiders

72
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Weave irregularly-shaped webs and do not clean or recycle (eat) them, as some spiders do, so extensive webbing can be built relatively quickly

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Cellar spiders

73
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Most of these spiders have eight eyes - two in the middle and three on each side

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Cellar spiders

74
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These spiders carry their eggs in their fangs

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Cellar spiders

75
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These spiders hang upside down in their webs as they wait for their prey

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Cellar spiders

76
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These spiders prefer cool, dark sites like basements, crawl spaces, garages, warehouses, and storage buildings

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Cellar spiders

77
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Sometimes mistakenly called daddy-longlegs

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Cellar spiders

78
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These spiders have eight eyes that are arranged in two rows of four

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Hobo spiders

79
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These spiders are found principally in the Pacific Northwest

A

Hobo spiders

80
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Only have one body part and two eyes, these are often mistaken as daddy-longleg spiders, but are not even in the same order as spiders

A

Harvestmen

81
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These spiders create funnel-like webs in holes or cracks in walls, firewood piles, stacks of bricks, and other places

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Hobo spiders

82
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These spiders do not climb, but are fast runners

A

Hobo spiders

83
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Eight eyes arranged in two rows, these spiders spin their silk sacs in ceiling corners and can be seen running across ceilings at night

A

Sac spiders

84
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Common backyard and field spiders

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wolf spiders

85
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These spiders have a 4-2-2 eye pattern: four small eyes on the bottom, two very large eyes in the middle, and two more on the top of their heads

A

wolf spiders

86
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These spiders carry their egg sac at the tip of their abdomen using the spinnerets

A

wolf spiders

87
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Once eggs hatch, these young spiderlings hitch a ride on their mother’s back for a while

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wolf spiders

88
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These spiders have eight eyes that are the same size, but different shapes

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ground spiders

89
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These spiders can be recognized by a pair of elongate spinnerets at the tip of the abdomen

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ground spiders

90
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Two large forward eyes, along with six smaller eyes, and may have better vision than all other spiders

A

Jumping spiders

91
Q

Ticks and mites belong to the arthropod group called

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Acari (subclass of Arachnida)

92
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Do not go through metamorphosis, but do have four life stages:egg, larva, pupa, and adult

A

ticks

93
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Must have a bloodmeal during each developental stage

A

ticks

94
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Generally considered to be a livestock pest since most do not feed on humans

A

soft ticks

95
Q

Hardened part of the dorsal portion of the exoskeleton of ticks

A

scutum

96
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More than 90% of hard ticks must do what before reaching the adult stage?

A

feed on three separate hosts (three-host ticks)

97
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Most important tick borne illness in the U.S. by causing more than 300,000 cases each year?

A

Lyme disease

98
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Stage of tick development most likely to transmit Lyme disease?

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Nymphs - because they must be attached to their hosts for at least 36 hours for the disease to be transmitted - adults are larger and usually noticed earlier

99
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Most important structural tick pest because of their ability of completing their life cycle indoors in the company of their canine hosts?

A

Brown dog ticks

100
Q

A single female brown dog tick can lay up to _______ eggs in her lifetime.

A

5,000

101
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These adult ticks can live as long as 200 days without a bloodmeal?

A

Brown dog ticks

102
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These mites are sometimes found in homes or other structures, but they do not bite or transmit diseases

A

clover mites

103
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Considered a nuissance pest because of their often-high numbers and may leave stains on curtains, carpets, or other surfaces

A

clover mites

104
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Live in mattresses and upholstered furniture, these mites fecal particles and shed exoskeletons fragments become mixed with floating house dust

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house dust mites

105
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These mites occasionally bite humans

A

Bird mites, rodent mites, tropical rat mites, house mouse mites, tropical fowl mites, and northern fowl mites

106
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Most mites cannot live more than ________ without sustenance from their hosts

A

a week or two

107
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Mites that live outdoors in grass, soil, and weedy areas

A

chigger mites

108
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This mite larvae can bite people, however, they do not burrow into the skin as many people believe

A

chigger mite larvae

109
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Females burrow through, and feed on, human skin

A

scabies mites

110
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Infestations occur on the wrists, hands, elbows, buttocks, backs of knees, ankles, toes, breats and male genitals

A

scabies mites

111
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Head regions of a scorpion which bears the pedipalps

A

prosoma

112
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Abdominal region of scorpion and bears the legs

A

mesosoma

113
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Region of a scorpion which includes the tail and the stinger

A

metasoma

114
Q

Only scorpion in the U.S. that is a serious concern for human health

A

Arizona bark scorpion

115
Q

Social bees and wasps (5)

A

Yellow jackets
Paper wasps
Hornets
Honey bees
Bumble bees

116
Q

Where are pollen baskets located on pollinating bees and wasps?

A

Hind legs

117
Q

Only females are capable of ___________

A

Stinging
Ovipositors are modified to sting - only females have ovipositors

118
Q

Hymenopteran queens lay fertilized eggs that become ____________ and the unfertilized eggs become ___________

A

Females; males

119
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Drones, a.k.a.

A

Male hymenopteran

120
Q

Drones are non-functional other than

A

During mating season — they die after mating

121
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All offspring produced are __________ until the colony matures (yellow jackets, paper wasps, & hornets)

A

Females

122
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Are both ground and aerial nesters

A

Yellow jackets

123
Q

Umbrella-like nest construction

A

Paper wasps

124
Q

Less aggressive than other social hymenopteran

A

Paper wasps & bumble bees

125
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Reddish head, thorax, and wings. Abdomen has bright yellow and wings are amber colored

A

Hornets

126
Q

Defend nest aggressively and capable of inflicting very painful sting

A

Hornets

127
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When yellow jacket hive is threatened what happens

A

Workers release alarm pheromones to attract more workers to sting threat

128
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Stings are fatal for this social hymenopteran

A

Honey bee
Barbed stinger remains embedded in victim and continues to pulse venom

129
Q

Provoked by noise levels and large mobile objects

A

Africanized honey bee (killer bee)

130
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Will pursue threats for hundreds of miles

A

Africanized honey bee (killer bee)

131
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European honey bee or Africanized honey bee have shorter wings?

A

AHB

132
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Hairy abdomen =
Shiny abdomen =

A

Bumble bee; carpenter bee

133
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Threatened hives will produce a loud buzzing sound as a deterrent

A

Bumble bee

134
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Chemical treatments for bees/wasps are made

A

To the nest, not foraging sites

135
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For ground bee/wasp nests, __________ are often used to treat the nest and entry points inside

A

Insecticidal dusts

136
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For aerial bee/wasp nests, they should be treated when?

A

At night to contact workers that may forage during daylight

137
Q

Bee/wasps nests ___________ after colony elimination

A

Should be removed to prevent reinfestation

138
Q

Dusts work best when applied to an area of __________ around nest entrance

A

6 inches

139
Q

Structural nests if not cleaned properly or sealed can create a future problem of

A

Dermestid beetles, spider beetles, and/or psocids

140
Q

Honey bees keep the center of their nest at about 95*F which will

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Warm the wall enough that it can often be detected with one’s hand

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