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africanized honey bees - honey bees demonstrating the aggressive nature and other undesirable characteristics. Dominantly inherited when these bees mate with European strain honeybees. First released (accidentally) in Brazil in 1956; now found in southern border region of the US agent - a living organism causing disease in an arthropod- vectored disease cycles augmentation biological control - biocontrol reliant on releasing large numbers of biological control agents to suppress a pest population. Using biocontrol agents as "living insecticides" bacillus thuriengensis - soil microbe found virtually world-wide which produces crystalline proteins toxic to various insects. Widely used as a microbial insectices, and also a source of genes for transgenic crop plants biological control - using living organisms to reduce pest populations bubo - characteristic; gross swelling of lymph nodes associated with plague infection cattle grub - dipteran pests tha develop under the skin of cattle, damaging leather and causing scar tissue to meat chloroquine - synthetic anti-malarial drug commercial agriculture - agriculture in which farmers produce crop primarily for sale to others conservation biological control - controlling pest insects by protecting the biological control agents already presentcultural control - pest management which relies on modifying something we would do any way to help reduce pest populations. In agriculture, could include modifying planting or harvest dates, tillage changes, crop rotation, etc. In other circumstances, sanitation is an important cultural control strategy. cultural entomology - the study of the impact of insects on human culture and society cuticle poison - an insecticide which compromises the integrity of the insect exoskeleton, either through abrasion (dusts), interfering with epicuticular waxes (soaps), or interfering with the insect's ability to synthesize chitin. Generally very safe for non-target organisms. dengue - viral disease transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. Also known as breakbone fever economic injury level - the pest population level at which the value of the lost crop yield EQUALS the cost of controlling that pest population economic threshold - the population level of a pest where action must be taken to keep the population from exceeding the economic injury level epidemic typhus - bacterial disease caused by Rickettsia and transmitted by the body louse. heartworm - deadly disease of domestic dogs and other animals caused by a roundworm and transmitted by mosquitoes. Hormone mimic - an insecticide which imitates the action of an insect hormone. horse bot - any one of three species of dipteran pests of horses which complete their larval development in the stomach of horses host plant resistance - breeding crop plant varieties that reduce the impact of pests on yield and qualitykeratin - fibrous structural protein found in the skin, fur, feathers, horn, scales, and other structures covering vertebrate animals. Subject to attack by clothes moth larvae and skin beetles importation biological control - importing exotic natural enemies for exotic pest species insecticide - pesticide developed for use against arthropod pests