PEST CONTROL OPERATOR TEST
(FLIES AND MOSQUITOS) QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
This small fly is most commonly associated with decaying fruits and vegetables and
garbage - ANSWER-Fruit fly
This fly is parasitic on earthworms - ANSWER-Cluster fly
These large flies lay their eggs on meat scraps or dead animal carcases - ANSWER-
Blow or bottle fly
These large flies are often found near dog runs where they lay their living larvae on
meat scraps or dog excrement - ANSWER-Flesh fly
The flies usually have their wings folded over each other when at rest and have several
curly, yellow hairs on the sides of its thorax. - ANSWER-Cluster fly
These flies come to the eyes of their host as well as to mucous and sebaceous
secretions, pus, blood and are quite persistent. They do not bite. - ANSWER-Hippelates
flies
These flies are not controlled by sanitation and habitat destruction, but by exclusion -
ANSWER-Face fly and Cluster fly
Although this fly is somewhat larger and darker than the housefly, it is more sluggish in
movement and flies much more slowly. - ANSWER-Cluster fly
This is a small fly, about 1/8 long and has red eyes - ANSWER-Fruit fly
This fly has a painful bite and only the females takes a blood meal from man -
ANSWER-Horse fly and Deer flies
The larvae of these flies lives in mud or decaying plant material and their bite may take
several weeks to heal - ANSWER-No-see-ums (Sand flies)
These small flies are about 1/8" long and are known as humpbacked flies or coffin flies.
- ANSWER-Phorid fly
These two flies overwinter in the voids (walls and attics) of homes. - ANSWER-Face fly
and Cluster fly
(FLIES AND MOSQUITOS) QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
This small fly is most commonly associated with decaying fruits and vegetables and
garbage - ANSWER-Fruit fly
This fly is parasitic on earthworms - ANSWER-Cluster fly
These large flies lay their eggs on meat scraps or dead animal carcases - ANSWER-
Blow or bottle fly
These large flies are often found near dog runs where they lay their living larvae on
meat scraps or dog excrement - ANSWER-Flesh fly
The flies usually have their wings folded over each other when at rest and have several
curly, yellow hairs on the sides of its thorax. - ANSWER-Cluster fly
These flies come to the eyes of their host as well as to mucous and sebaceous
secretions, pus, blood and are quite persistent. They do not bite. - ANSWER-Hippelates
flies
These flies are not controlled by sanitation and habitat destruction, but by exclusion -
ANSWER-Face fly and Cluster fly
Although this fly is somewhat larger and darker than the housefly, it is more sluggish in
movement and flies much more slowly. - ANSWER-Cluster fly
This is a small fly, about 1/8 long and has red eyes - ANSWER-Fruit fly
This fly has a painful bite and only the females takes a blood meal from man -
ANSWER-Horse fly and Deer flies
The larvae of these flies lives in mud or decaying plant material and their bite may take
several weeks to heal - ANSWER-No-see-ums (Sand flies)
These small flies are about 1/8" long and are known as humpbacked flies or coffin flies.
- ANSWER-Phorid fly
These two flies overwinter in the voids (walls and attics) of homes. - ANSWER-Face fly
and Cluster fly
