Scientific Names 1
What is the scientific name for the Horse Fly?
What is Tabanus
What is the scientific name of the Blister Beetle?
What is Epicauta
What are Black Flies commonly called due to their humpback appearance?
What are Buffalo Gnats
What specific species of mosquito is known to be the vector of WNV?
What is the Asian Tiger Mosquito
Which two flies cause Equine Infectious Anemia?
What are Deer Flies & Horse Flies
What is the scientific name for the House Fly?
What is Musca Domestica
What is the scientific name for the Stable Fly?
What is Stomoxys Calcitrans
What causes bot flies to hatch?
Heat (friction from licking) and moisture (saliva from licking)
Where do mosquitoes mainly breed?
What is Standing water
Lice can be separated into two categories. Name them, and identify which is more dangerous
What is Biting & Sucking, with sucking being more dangerous
What is the scientific name for the Face Fly?
What is Musca Autumnalis
What is the scientific name for the Deer Fly?
What is Chrysops
In some species of flies, only the female drinks blood, while the male drinks nectar. List 2 kinds of flies where only the females drink blood.
Deer Fly, Horse Fly, and Black Fly.
What two ticks are known to transmit Lyme Disease?
What are Eastern & Western Black-legged Ticks
List the other names for the Biting Midge
What are Punkies, Sand Flies, No-see-ums
What is the scientific name for Black Flies?
What is Simulium?
What is the scientific name for the Northern Cattle Grub?
What is Hypoderma Bovis
What fly does not follow this general rule: In some species of flies, only the female drinks blood, while the male drinks nectar
What are Stable Flies
What is the name for the fly that makes hard nodules in the neck, withers, and ribcage areas that often have to be surgically removed?
What are Cattle Grubs
The biting midge's saliva contains an allergen that causes an allergic reaction when the horse is bitten. What is the name of this condition?
What is Sweet Itch, Summer Eczema, Seasonal Recurrent Dermatitis
What are the scientific names for the black-legged ticks?
Eastern: Ixodes Scapularis
Western: Ixodes Pacificus
What are the scientific names for the Common Bot, Throat Bot, and Nose Bot?
What is
Common Bot - Gasterophilus Intestinalis
Throat Bot - Gasterophilus Nasalis
Nose Bot - Gasterophilus Haemorrhodalis
What are the four parts of a successful fly control program?
1) elimination of breeding materials; 2) control of moisture; 3) mechanical control and 4) judicious use of insecticides.
What are the two most toxic types of Blister Beetles?
What is Epicauta Vittata & Epicauta Occidentalis
What is the poison that causes blisters on the skin and death and sickness upon ingestion in the Blister Beetle?
What is Cantharidin