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What genus of mosquito deposits it’s eggs attached together to form rafts that floats on water?

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Culex

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Where do mosquito larvae develop?

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In water

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What percentage of adult mosquito are typically make?

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50

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What sex of mosquito has bushy antennae?

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Male

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Which organisms does the AF consider “Pests”

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Grown wrong place at wrong time

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What’s “Integrated pest management?”

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Combination of control techniques to prevent or suppress pest

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What form of pest control relies on changing the environment?

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Cultural

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What’s “mechanical” pest control?

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Using methods to kill or separate Arthropods from their food source

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Who may use “restricted use” pesticides

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Certified applicator or someone under the supervision of a certified member

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Which type of pesticides had a low toxicity for mammals and is widely replacing all other types of pesticides?

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Pyrethoids

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What’re the goals of the medical entomology program?

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Prevent and control vector borne diseases by eliminating disease vectors, reservoirs, blocking transmission of reservoirs

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What instruction outlines the pest management program for the base CE?

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AFI 32-1053

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What instruction outlines the AF’s medical enthology program

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AFI 48-102

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Who establishes the surveillance frequencies for disease vectors?

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Aerospace, medicine council

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What’re the primary PH tasks during an aerial spray mission?

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Educating public and Pre/Post treatment vector surveillance

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What’re the BE responsibilities in the medical entromology program?

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Monitors aquicition, storage, environmental impact

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What’s Taxonomy?

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Science of classification

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What’s the next lower subdivision of a phylum?

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Class

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What subdivision comes after order?

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Family

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In most cases, what’s the last major division in the classification system?

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Species

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What’s the stuff outer skeleton in arthropods called?

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Exoskeleton

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What’re the four stages of complete metamorphosis?

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Egg, larva, pupa, adult

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What’s a written insect key?

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Brief description of anatomical features used to ID insects

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What’s the most common species of mouse?

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House Mouse

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What do the droppings(feces) of a house mouse look like?
Small, rod shaped
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What’s the largest and most common domestic rat?
Norway Rat
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What’re the three color patterns found in roof rats?
Black to slate gray, grayish white belly
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What’s the best control method for long-term control of rodents?
Cultural & Mechanical
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What’re the five ways flies spread diseases?
Mouthparts, vomitus, body hairs, sticky part of feet, feces
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What’s the most effective fly control measure?
Dropper Sanitation/eliminate breeding places
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In what insect order are fleas classified?
Siphonaptera
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What diseases are fleas responsible for transmitting?
Plague, endemic typhus
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How’s murine typhus (endemic typhus) fever transmitted to humans?
By the flea bite/ when a flea or rodent louse feces are scratched into an open wound or inhalied
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What’re two major groups of ticks?
Hard and soft
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To which of the two major groups does the American dog tick belong?
Hard
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What’re the four major groups of diseases that are spread by ticks?
Rickettsial bacteria, spirochete bacteria, other bacteria and virus
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What’s meant by “transovarial transmission” of pathogens?
Pathogens are passed from infected adult to eggs
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What’s the most effective method of removing ticks?
Small tweezers, forced far away form mouth by pulling in a upward with even pressure
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What stage are chiggers in when they feed on humans and animals?
Larval
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What’re the two major groups of diseases transmitted by mites?
Scrub typhus & Rickettsial Pox
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What species of mite transmits scrub typhus?
Chigger
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Which noted burrow and live in human skin?
Scables
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What’s the most abundant species of cockroach in the US?
German
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What color are German cockroaches?
Pale yellowish brown or tan
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Where are American cockroaches most often found?
Commercial establishments
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Why are Oriental cockroach populations at a somewhat lower rate?
Reproduce at a slower rate & other species
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What’s the most effective method of control for cockroaches m?
Denying access to food or moisture
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How many venomous snakes are there in the US?
More than 20
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What’re the five basic types of venom that Arthropoda and snakes produced?
Vesicating toxin, hemnorraghic toxin, Hempolytic Toxin, Neurotoxin and uncating toxin
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What three thing do venomous arthropods do to cause pain and swelling?
Bite, sting, produce fluids
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What type of venom produced blisters on the skin?
Vesicsting toxin
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What’s the one control method that’s effective against all venomous arthropods?
Avoidance
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What’re the common names for the three distinct varieties of life that affect humans?
Head, body and crab or pubic lice
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What’s the most medically important louse?
Body louse
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How are pathogens for typhus and trench fever spread from lice to humans?
Bacteria-Laden decal dropping are scratched into the bite/ wound or stuck to fingers
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How are bacteria of relapsing fever spread from lice to humans?
Crushed lice that are rubbed into a wound or into mucous membranes or conjunction.
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What’s the most effective method of prevention for all lice?
Education
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What are the two major categories of flies?
Biting flies and filth flies
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To which of the two major groups of flies does a sand fly belong?
Biting
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What mosquito genera are the two primary of encephalitis in Conus?
Culex and Aedes
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What’s the most common mosquito-borne disease in Conus?
West Nike encephalitis
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Which encephalitis group included Snowshoe Hare, LaCrosse, and Jamestown Canyon viruses?
California
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What’re thought to be the most common reservoirs of WNV, SLE, EEE, WEE?
Wild Birds
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What’s another name for dengue fever?
Break Bone Fever
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What genus of mosquitoes transmits dengue fever?
Aedes
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What’re three control measures for dengue fever?
Education, vector, avoidance, environmental clean up
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What’re the symptoms of yellow fever?
Fever, headache, backache, Juandice, internal bleeding
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What are the five species of malaria?
P.Dalcipanum, P.Vivax, P.Malane, P.Ovale,P.Knowlosi
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What’re the three stages of malaria?
Cold,hot,profuse sweating.
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What’s the incubation period for falciparum malaria
10-18 days
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What form of malaria can cause rapid death if left untreated?
Falciparum Malaria
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What forms of malaria have relapses?
Vivax, malaria, ovale
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What Chemoprophylaxis for malaria is typically prescribed for flight crew?
Malorone, Doxyaclene
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What should you complete prior to establishing or revitalizing your surveillance program?
Conduct a baseline entomology survey
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What’re the important things to emerge when locating the adult mosquito traps on base?
Locate them between populated areas, breeding sources
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What device is used to collect live specimens in adult mosquito traps?
A net
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What does the SSAM trap use to attract mosquitoes?
Light, CO2 or light and CO2
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What’re the advantages of a CO2-baited trap over a light-baited SSAM trap?
CO2 traps attract more spaces or mosquitos, large numbers of mosquitoes or female mosquitoes
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Why would you operate a CO2-baited trap during daylight hours?
Catch specifies of mosquitoes that are active in the late morning/early evening
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Generally, when should you sample larval mosquito collection sites?
Weekly
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What two mosquitoes species are collected primarily by it’s an ovitrap?
Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus
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What’s a TI?
Average number of females caught per trap night
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What’s an STI?
Andrade population of a specific species/ particular group of mosquitoes caught per night
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What’re the four types of mosquito control?
Cultural, mechanical, chemical and biological
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What’s one of the best mosquito cultural control methods?
Filling low lying wet areas with gravel and dirty to eliminate breeding sites
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What’re the two methods of chemical control used on adult mosquitoes?
Residual treatment and fogging
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Which organisms does the AF consider “pests”?
Grow wrong place at wrong time
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What’s “integrated pest management”?
Combination of control techniques to prevent or suppress pests
89
What form of pest control relies on changing the environment?
Cultural
90
What’s “mechanical” pest control
Using methods to kill or separate arthropods from their food source
91
Who may use “restricted use” pesticides?
Certified applicator or someone under supervision of a certified applicator
92
Which type of pesticides had a low toxicity for mammals and is widely replacing all other types of pesticides?
Pyrethoids
93
What’re the goals of the medical entomology program?
Prevent and control vector-borne diseases by eliminating disease vectors, reservoirs, blocking transmission of reservoirs
94
What instruction outlines the pest management program for the base civil engineer?
AFI 32-1053
95
What instruction outlines the AF Medical Entomology Program?
AFI 48-102
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Who establishes the surveillance frequencies for disease vectors?
Aerospace medicine council
97
What’re primary PH tasks during an aerial spray mission?
Educating public and pre/posh treatment vector surveillance
98
What’re the BE responsibilities in the medical entomology program?
Monitors aquiction, storage and environmental impact

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