Myiasis And House/Stable Flies.
- 1.Myiasis is invasion of living tissue by the pupae of dipterous insects.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.Select all of the flys to cause an obligatory myiasis.
- A.
Dermatobia hominis
- B.
Cordylobia anthropophaga
- C.
Wohlfahrtia
- D.
Chrysomya bezziana
- E.
Lucilia
- F.
Calliphora
- G.
Cochliomya homonivorax
- 3.Sarcophaga has a chess board appearance on its abdomen.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.Cochliomya and chrysomya are called 'the flesh flies'.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.Which flies have prominent bristles on their dorsal thorax, are metallic and have larvae without spines.
- A.
Chrysomya and Cochliomya
- B.
Calliphoridae - Calliphora and Lucilia
- C.
Tumbu
- D.
Dermatobia
- 6.Cordylobia anthropophaga is also known as the Bot Fly.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.Which fly is metallic, is an obligate and has 3 stripes on its thorax.
- A.
Stomoxys calcitrans
- B.
Musca domestica
- C.
Lucilia
- D.
Cochliomya homonivorax
- 8.Tumbu fly likes to lay its eggs in urine soaked clothes.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.Which fly produces larvae which live in the host for 10+ weeks
- A.
Tumbu
- B.
Dermatobia hominis
- C.
Calliphora
- D.
Muscina stabulans
- 10.Wing vein 4 bends up sharply to meet wing vein 3 in flies of the Fannia genus.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.Blinding trachoma is spread by Musca sorbens
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.The larvae of flies of the Fannia genus have lateral processes.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.Which of these has a proboscis?
- A.
Musca domestica
- B.
Stomoxys
- C.
Calliphora
- D.
Musca sorbens
- 14.House flys transmit enteric bacteria
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.Stomoxys calcitrans is an important disease vector.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.Only female stomoxys flies blood feed.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.Musca domestica feeds by:
- A.
Vomiting up food from its crop to digest solid material
- B.
Feeding on plant sugars
- C.
Proboscis
- 18.Which methods can be used used in the control of houseflies. Select all that apply.
- A.
Packing tips tight to kill larvae
- B.
Bacillus thurnigiensis as a biological insecticide.
- C.
Bed nets
- D.
Insecticide.
- 19.Musca sorbens is a vector of disease in which areas:
- A.
Africa, Asia, Pacific
- B.
Africa
- C.
South America and Africa
- D.
Africa and Europe
- 20.Fannia scalaris is known as the latrine fly.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 21.Musca domestica defecates roughly every...
- A.
20 minutes
- B.
Minute
- C.
5 mins
- D.
10 minutes
- 22.How many larval instars does musca domestica have?
- A.
3
- B.
4
- C.
5
- D.
2
- 23.Musca domestica is characterised by:
- A.
A discal cell
- B.
Wings that fold over its body
- C.
Wing vein 4 bending up sharply to wing vein 3.
- D.
A hatchet cell
- 24.Flies of the fannia genus have wing veins 4 and 3 that are almost parallel.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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