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What do insects and other arthropods do that is detrimental to plants (especially those grown by humans for food)? |
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Damage roots
Damage trunk/limbs
Vector plant diseases |
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consumes or cause harm to the fruit |
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attack some other part of the plant, decreasing crop yield |
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Direct vs. Indirect pest Are |
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Terms commonly used in the fruit growing industry |
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| What is an economic threshold? |
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The point at which the loss due to damage is greater than the cost of control
Usually measured in number of insects/unit of measure. |
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| Why do some insects become pests? |
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It’s our fault!
We provide them with easy targets
We bring them into new environments
We remove their natural enemies
We create resistance to pesticides |
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| What is a pesticide resistance? |
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The adaption of pest population targeted by a pesticide resulting in decreased susceptibility to that chemical. IN other words, pests develop a resistance to a chemical through natural selection: the most resistant organisms are the ones to survive and pass on their genetic traits to their offspring. This gives them the opportunity to quickly evolve to challenges |
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What is an IGR – Insect growth regulator? |
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A chemical substance that inhibits the life cycle of an insect. They are used to control populations of harmful pests such as cockroaches or fleas. |
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AKA river blindness- Black Fly vectors |
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oriental rat flea vectors
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| Damp(subterranean) termites |
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| small, require contact with soil (moisture), white or cream in color, common in and out of doors, more common in Eastern WA. Check for soil tunnels. They follow along the grain. |
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| larger, do not require soil contact, dark in color, common in western WA. Found in structures and furnishings. Check for wood shavings. |
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| Avoiding Termite Problems |
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| Remove natural wood, use treated wood, remove wood debris, avoid wood-soil contact, allow ventilation |
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| Red ring around the swollen area |
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| Flowers thought to keep away the disease. Black Plague. |
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| Mites you would find on your body |
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| Follicle mites, scabies mites |
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| two species found worldwide, on almost everyone, on hair follicles around eyes and nose and around sebaceous (oil glands). May cleanse follicles and unclog glands. |
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| Microscopic, found on mattresses, carpets, sofas, debris, development of allergies, if someone is allergic to dust they are really allergic to dust mites, treatment can be difficult. |
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Phytophagous, detritovores, predators, and parasites.
Feed on wood, cellulose, gut symboiants. |
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| loss of muscle function that results from a tick bite |
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| 5 methods by which arthropods affect human health and well being |
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1. transmit agent of diseases by feeding on tissue
2. Physical blockage or injuries to organs
3. annoyance
4. production of toxic by-products
5. open wounds for secondary inflection |
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| Why was France willing to sell the "Louisiana Territory" to the United States? |
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| There was a yellow fever outbreak in that area |
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| Locusts, grasshoppers, crickets- occur in high numbers |
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| Caterpillars- guts often rolled out |
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| bee and wasp larvae and callow adults |
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| Great consumers of plants- great biomass |
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| high nutritional value-high in protein and fat, low in cholesterol |
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| are species rich- great variety |
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| fish, birds, reptiles, rodents |
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| What arthropods do humans eat? |
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| fear of small, "scary" critters. An "inborn" and learned fear. |
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| An irrational fear and belief that one is being "infested" by insects or other such critters. A psychosis. |
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| Putting maggots into an open wound to help disinfect and promote healing. |
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| A chemical compound naturally produced by many organisms, including animals, plants, and bacteria. It is a frequent ingredient in lotions and skin cream, as well as in oral hygiene products, cosmetics and other toiletries. |
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| Three types of human lice? |
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| Body lice, Head lice, Pubic lice |
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| live on and off of host, lay eggs off of host. Most dangerous at disease transmission. |
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| Live on scalp, lay eggs at base of hair on neck. Eggs called nits. |
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| live on coarse body hair, lay eggs on hairs. Eggs also called nits |
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| Eggs that are glued to hair shafts |
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| invasion of living tissue by fly maggots |
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| What control method was used to eradicate the screwworm fly from the United States? |
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| SIT- Sterile technique, released sterile screwworms into wild to mate with females. |
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| How is plague spread from person to person and from country to country? |
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| Insect vectored disease- rat flea |
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| Why do some call plague "Black Death"? |
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| Because you bleed internally, hemorrhage. |
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| Do we have to worry about plague in the United States? |
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| No, because we have antibiotics now. |
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| When and where to bedbugs feed? |
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| They are nocturnal and they feed at night. |
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| What do bed bugs feed on? |
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| Where would you look for bedbugs? |
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| You would look for them in a bed, in corners, or in crevices. |
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a condition of ill health of malfunctioning in a living organism, especially one having particular symptoms. A departure of normal health brought on by external factors. A biotic invasion of the body. Detrimental to health of the host. Progressive degree of effect increases with time.
Intrinsic- effects occur within the body of the host. |
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| Disease vectored by an arthrpod. |
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| The organism that transports the pathogen. |
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| The disease causing agent. Usually a virus, bacteria, or micro organism. |
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| Reservoir (from a disease standpoint) |
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| any animal system capable of maintaining a pathogen over time. |
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| Used to isolate the protozoan in non-acute forms. |
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| With what arbodisease is xenodiagnosis associated? |
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| Associated with Chagas disease. Vectors of this disease are kissing bugs. Pathogen is flagellate protozoan. |
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| What does the condition cycle cell anemia have to do with malaria? |
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| Malaria causes anemia. The destruction of red blood cells. |
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| The application of the study of insects and other arthropods to legal issues, especially in the court of law. |
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| Masses of fly eggs on dead tissue. |
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| How are insects used to estimate the time of death? |
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knowing the cycle and the stage that insects are in when they are on the body can help determine how long the body has been dead.
Corpse decomposition and faunal phases & stages. |
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| What are some of the arthropods that come to a dead body? |
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| What arthropods are among the first to arrive at a dead body? |
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| What was the reason that most people did not bathe (often) throughout much of the Middle Ages and into early part of this century? |
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| The church associated bathing with the debauchery of the Roman Public Baths. |
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| Where would one encounter the arbodisease onchocerciasis? |
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| River Blindness--one would encounter this in polluted waters in tropical Africa and tropical America. |
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| What vectors the disease and what is the pathogen? |
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| Black Flies are the vecotr and the pathogen is a filarial worm. |
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| What is the result of Arbodisease Onchoceriasis? |
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| An alcoholic beverage that is sugared with honey. |
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| What is the cultural and religious significance of butterflies and scarab (dung) beetles? |
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Butterflies- Aboriginal views on the butterfly as a symbol of the soul- a deceased son. Native American Black Feet believed dreams were brought by butterflies.
Scarab Beetles- associated with the sun of god Khepera. Used as amulets. |
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An Egyptian King who lived in 3100 BC. Used symbol locust to show the uniting of upper and lower classes.
2 loafs of bread: each signifies for food to feed to people.
Hornet: Conquer ability
Power and authority. |
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| How are insects used in the Bible. |
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Flies, caterpillars, grasshoppers, locusts, and moths. Scorpions. Some used for the plagues.
Scarab Beetle=Prayers from book of the dead were written on them. |
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| Why is the book of the dead important? |
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| Heart scaradb were inscriptions from the book of the dead. |
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| Children's book author who wrote the very hungry caterpillar. |
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| What do forensic entomologists do? |
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| They investigate deaths using entomology knowledge. |
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| Postmortem interval- time between insect colonization and corpse discovery (approximates time since death). Requires determination of age of maggot. |
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| Dead animal matter, human remains. |
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| An Arbodisease is one that is? |
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| Vectored by an arthropod. |
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| Crab or pubic lice are found? |
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| Primarily near the genitals but can be found where coarse hairs occur (such as the armpits or eyebrows) |
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| The invasion of living flesh by maggots (the maggots feed on the flesh) is termed? |
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| Three main species of lice that are found on humans. Of these, two lay their eggs on the host (nits) while one lays its eggs off of the host in clothing, bedding, etc. This latter louse is the? |
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| Which would probably be a vector? |
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| If we were discussing nits, what type(s) of insect(s) would be talking about? |
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| The sign or Romana is a swelling of the face, which results from the bite of a conenose or kissing bug. The sign is associate with? |
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| What insect often was used by many early Native American cultures to deliver dream, or portray beauty and happiness? It was also the insect symbol used for the god Psyche. |
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| What insect was used to symbolize the unity of Upper and Lower Egypt? It was used in the cartouche of the Pharaoh Menes? |
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| Insects become pests because? |
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They often occur in large numbers
They take advantage of the monocultures created by humans
Consumers demand "perfect" or nearly perfect apples (and other commodites) |
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| Insect growth regulators may? |
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Cause an insect to molt when it is not ready to molt.
Cause an insect to continue to molt into an immature and never into an adult.
Cause an insect to molt into an individual that shows adult and pupal characteristics. |
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| Most commonly drank beer in Guatemala? |
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| Yellow jackets in Guatemala that lasted 3-5 years? |
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| In Guatemala, you never stare at this for very long.. |
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| What is the book of the dead? |
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It gets you to the afterlife.
It is a book of prayers. |
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| Going to Charlotte NC was like entering a? |
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| The British general during the Revolutionary War? |
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| The ancient insect that was used to represent Egypt? |
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Inscriptions from the Book of the Dead.
Scarabs as souvenirs, or to wish one well. |
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| They hunted people and removed their heads and shrunk them. |
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One very closely adapted to its host, adapted to a single host or a group
Example: human crab louse. |
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Feed on large variety of hosts.
Ectoparasites: feed externally on the host.
Endoparasite: feed internally. |
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Infestation of lice
Haemophagic: blood eaters (TEST) |
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"Cooties"
Cosmopolitan-(TEST)-meaning they are found everywhere where humans are found.
Small, 2-4 mm, white.
Vecotr epidemic typhus, trench fever, relapsing fever-WWII.(more people died from lice than the war)
Skin irritation, redness, development of allergies.
Stressful conditions. |
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Live both on and off of the host.
Adults and Immatures found in bedding clothing and furniture.
Leave body to lay their eggs.
Lay their eggs in socks, carpeting, seams.
Viable eggs (TEST)- meaning living=they have been dead less than 24 hours (TEST)
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| Are critters that we don't like, small and noxious. |
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Smaller than its host.
Receives nourishment from its host.
Example: Lice |
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Host- Humans, fleas, rodents
Reservoir- ground squirrels
Vector-Oriental rat flea
Pathogen- Bacterium, Yersinia pestis |
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| Why do some people call it black death? |
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| What do insects and other arthropods do that is detrimental to plants (especially those grown by humans for food)? |
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Consume fruits and leaves.
Damage roots.
Suck plant juices.
Damage tree trunk/limbs.
Vector plant diseases. |
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| Consume or CAUSE harm to the fruit. Direct pests of apple tree- apples. |
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Attack some other part of the plant, decreasing crop yield.
Indirect pest of apple tree- leaves, stems, roots, ect. |
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The lowest number of insects that will cause an economic loss.
The point at which the loss due to damage is greater than the cost of control. |
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| Why do some insects become pests? |
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We provide them with easy targets
Bring them into new environments
Remove their natural enemies
Create resistance to pesticides. |
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| How do we make an insect a pest? |
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Farmers demand for perfect apples and other commodities.
They occur in large numbers.
They take advantage of the monocultures created by humans. |
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| Substances intedned for killing or repelling pests or otherwise mitigating their effects such as Nerve poisions, biological, IGR's, Pheromones. |
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Vecotr- Anopheles mosquitos
Pathogen- Protozoan
Host- Humans
Reservoir- humans |
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| What does the condition cycle cell anemia have to do with malaria? |
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Born with a genetic trait.
People with Sickle Cell anemia can survive malaria. |
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| Wrote tall tales about Archy & Mehitable about a cockroach and a cat. |
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One of the nine muses.
The goddesses of music, song and dance. |
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| A dance in Hercules to help with his problems. |
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