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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. |
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? |
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 |