Unit 3: Medical Entomology

Question 1

Who determines the effectiveness of aerial spraying of pesticides to control vectors or medically important pests?

Answer 1

Public Health

Question 2

Who provides vector identification for bases in the continental United States (CONUS)?

Answer 2

United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine

Question 3

What is the first classification or grouping within the animal or plant kingdom?

Answer 3

Phylum

Question 4

In most cases, what is the lowest major division in the classification system of insects?

Answer 4

Species

Question 5

Which has an endoskeletal structure?
a. Tick.
b. Mite.
c. Human.
d. Scorpion.

Answer 5

Human

Question 6

Which type of metamorphosis is a growth cycle that includes four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult?

Answer 6

Complete metamorphosis

Question 7

Flies, mosquitoes, midges, and punkies belong to which order of insects?

Answer 7

Diptera

Question 8

Who monitors all pest control activities for the entire Air Force installation?

Answer 8

Pest Management section

Question 9

Which type of pest control consists of using predators, pathogens, or genetic engineering to control arthropods?

Answer 9

Biological

Question 10

Which mosquito genus deposits its eggs so they are attached together to form rafts that float on the water?

Answer 10

Culex

Question 11

During which stage do mosquitoes abstain from feeding?

Answer 11

Pupal

Question 12

Which disease sometimes resembles the pain of broken bones?

Answer 12

Dengue fever

Question 13

Which mosquitoes transmit all four forms of malaria?

Answer 13

Anopheles

Question 14

Where do most complications develop when a human is infected with malaria?

Answer 14

Brain

Question 15

How many feet above the ground should solid-state Army miniature (SSAM) traps be located to attract the most mosquitoes?

Answer 15

6

Question 16

What type of surveillance method uses a paper-towel-wrapped tongue depressor emerged in a one-pint, black jar that has been half-filled with water?

Answer 16

Ovitrap for mosquito eggs

Question 17

Which is an example of cultural control for mosquitoes?
a. Filling in the low-lying areas with dirt.
b. Placing Gambusia minnows in the base pond.
c. Spraying the base with low doses of malathion.
d. Depositing larvacide in the stagnant water areas.

Answer 17

a. Filling in the low-lying areas with dirt

Question 18

Whose responsibility is it to fill low-lying areas with dirt to control mosquitoes?

Answer 18

Civil engineer

Question 19

Replacing the weather stripping on a door and patching screens are two examples of which type of mosquito control?

Answer 19

Mechanical

Question 20

How are epidemic typhus and trench fever transmitted?

Answer 20

Infected louse feces or crushed lice

Question 21

What is the condition in which living tissue is infested with maggots?

Answer 21

Myiasis

Question 22

Which disease is transmitted by fleas?
a. Dengue fever.
b. Leishmaniasis.
c. Malaria.
d. Plague.

Answer 22

d. Plague

Question 23

How is endemic typhus (murine typhus) transmitted?

Answer 23

Feces of a flea rubbed into a wound

Question 24

Which is an example of a hard tick?
a. South coast tick.
b. Balkan deer tick.
c. American dog tick.
d. Relapsing fever tick.

Answer 24

c. American dog tick

Question 25

Which disease is a bacterial disease spread by ticks? a. Dengue. b. Tularemia. c. Relapsing fever. d. Colorado tick fever.

Answer 25

b. Tularemia

Question 26

What do you call the transmission of rickettsial pathogens from adult ticks through the egg?

Answer 26

Transovarial

Question 27

What is the most abundant cockroach species in the United States?

Answer 27

German

Question 28

What is the most effective method of controlling cockroaches?

Answer 28

Denying access to food or moisture

Question 29

Which type of venom produces raised areas on the skin that may itch or be intensely painful?

Answer 29

Urticating toxin

Question 30

What control measures are the most effective against venomous animals?

Answer 30

Cultural

Question 31

Which is the largest and most common domestic rat?

Answer 31

Norway

Question 32

Which is the best method for long-term control of rodents?

Answer 32

Cultural and mechanical

Question 33

Which disease results from either direct or indirect contact with the urine of infected rodents or other animals?

Answer 33

Leptospirosis

Question 34

What is the most positive proof of a rodent infestation?

Answer 34

Sighting a live rodent

Question 35

Swing marks made along a beam under floor joists generally indicate the presence of which type of rodent?

Answer 35

Roof rat

Question 36

If you powder a floor to survey for tracks, the hind feet prints of a rodent will show how many toes?

Answer 36

5