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What are the 2 suborders of diptera?

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  • Brachycera (short antennae)

- Nematocera (long antennae)

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What are the direct effects of flies?

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  • Bites and allergies
  • Botflies
  • Myiasis causing flies (fly strike)
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What are the indirect effects of flies?

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Transmission of infections

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Name the 4 families of nematocera

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  • Simulidae
  • Culicidae
  • Ceratopogonidae
  • Psychodidae
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Describe the typical life cycle of Nematocera

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  • Holometabolomes
  • Aquatic life cycle
  • Eggs laid (near water)
  • 4 larval stages (point into water)
  • Pupate
  • Hatch
  • Mating
  • Female requires blood meal for egg production
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Name the families of Brachycera

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  • Muscidae
  • tabanidae
  • Hippoboscidae
  • Glossinidae
  • Oestridae
  • Sarcophagidae
  • Calliphoridae
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What is the difference between the life cycles of Nematocera and Brachycera?

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Brachycera not usually aquatic life cyces, Nematocera require water

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Name common species of Muscidae

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  • House flies: Musca domesitica, M. autumnalis
  • Head flies: Hydrotaea irritans
  • Stable fly: Stomoxys calcitrans
  • Horn flies: Haematobia irritans
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Which of the Muscidae are blood feeders?

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  • Stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans)

- Horn flies (Haematobia irritans)

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Describe Hydrotaea irritans

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  • Sheep head fly
  • Feed on secretions from eyes, nose and debris at horn base
  • Feeding causes irritation, scratching resultin in wounds
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Describe Haematoba irritans

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  • Horn flies
  • Take blood meal
  • most often from cattle
  • Painful bites
  • Exonomically importnat
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Describe the role of Muscidae as vectors of infection

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  • Spread bacteria into eyes and wounds
  • Pinkeye (Moraxella bovis infection)
  • Summer mastitis (though to be by head fly)
  • Can also transmit faecal pathogens e.g. Salmonella and Campylobacter among chickens and people
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Describe the Tabanidae family

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  • Brachycera
  • Horseflies (Tabanus)
  • Deer flies (Haematopota)
  • Clegs (Chrysops spp)
  • large biting flies
  • Diurnal, strong fliers
  • Prevent feeding, highly irritant, mechanical vector
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What is the most common tabanid in the UK?

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Haematopota pluvalis

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Describe the feeding of tabanids

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  • Females bite and drink blood

- Large saw-like mouth parts

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Describe the life cycle of tabanids

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  • Eggs laid on stems of plants
  • Larvae live in wet mud or may be completely aquatic
  • Require several months to complete life cycle
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Descibe the Tsetse fly

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  • Genus Glossina
  • Sub-saharan Africa
  • Viviparous
  • Vectors of parasitic protozoa
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Describe the reproduction of the Tsetse fly

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  • Viviparous
  • Eggs inside female, hatch within then emerge
  • Are not deposited until ready to pupate
  • Holometabolous life cycle
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Describe the life cycle of trypanosomes with relation to the Tsetse fly

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  • Fly takes blood meal, ingests protozoan
  • Protozoan replicates by binary fission in mid-gut of fly
  • Transforms into infective stage
  • Enters salivary glands and multiplies
  • Fly takes blood meal and injects into the bloodstream
  • Multiplies by binary fission in blood, lymph and spinal fluid
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Describe Simuliidae

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  • Nematocera
  • 1-5mm
  • Humped thorax
  • Diurnal
  • Bite in grey, warm weather
  • Transmit infectious diseases
  • Aka black flies
  • Simulium is most important genus
  • Eggs and larvae oxygenated, fast flowing water
  • Irritant and pest
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Describe the feeding habits of adult Simuliidae

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  • Adult males: nectar

- Adult females: blood from wide range of vertebrates

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Describe mosquitoes

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  • Culicidae, Nematocera
  • 2-10mm
  • Slender, long legs, adult females have long proboscis
  • Crepuscular/nocturnal
  • Poor fliers
  • Transmit infectious diseases
  • 2 main groups
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Give examples of diseases transmitted by mosquitoes

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  • Plasmodium (malaria)
  • Dirofilaria immitis
  • Various viruses (e.g. West Nile virus, Myxomatosis, avian poxvirus, equine encephalitis virus, equine infectious anaemia virus)
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Outline methods of transmission of diseases by mosquitoes

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  • Can act as intermediate host/definitive host or mechanical vector
  • Vertical transmission between mosquitoes also possible
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What are the 2 main groups of mosquito?
- Anopheline (e.g. Aedes spp.) | - Culicine (e.g. Culex spp.)
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Describe mosquito breeding
- Aquatic areas - Eggs laid on water or moist ground - Larval stages live in still ponds, water butts etc - Culicine larvae hang down - Anopheline lay parallel with surface water
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Describe feeding in mosquitoes
- Adults drink nectar | - Female has to have blood meal before laying eggs
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Describe transmission of Dirofilaria immitis by mosquitos
- Mosquito takes blood meal, ingests microfilaria - Penetrate mosquito's midgut, migrate to malphigian tubules - Moult L1-L3 - Migrate to head and proboscis - Takes blood meal, L3 into bite wound, infect host
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Describe Ceratopogonidae
- Nematocera - Biting midges - 1-4mm - Humped thoax, wings flat at rest - Crepuscular, dull humid weather - Poor fliers - Transmit infectious dieases - Aquatic/semi-aquatic diseases - Can be severe irritants and cause allergies
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Give an example of an allergy caused by Culicoides
Sweet itch in horses
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List diseases transmitted by ceratopogonidae
- Onchocerca spp - Protozoa - Viruses e.g. bluetongue, Schmallenberg - African horse sickness - Trypanosomes, filaroid nematodes
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Describe Psychodidae
- Nematocera - Sand flies - 3-5mm - Hairy, moth-like, long legs, hop not fly - Nocturnal - Weak fliers - Transmit infectious dieases - Only adult female drinks blood
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What diseases are transmitted by Sand flies?
- Leishmania - Phlebotomus in Eurpor - Lutzomyia in America
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Describe the locations of the egg and larval stages of Sand flies
- Eggs laid on ground | - Larvae (multiple stages) live in humid soil, leaf litter etc
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Describe Melophagus ovis
- Sheep ked - Permanent obligate ectoparasite, no wings - 5-8mm - Single egg hatches inside female, 3 moults, then emerges and sticks to hair and pupates - Transmission through direct contact
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What pathology does Melophagus ovis cause?
- Irritation - Rubbing - Wool loss
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Describe Hippoboscis equina
- New forest fly ~10mm, wings, fly short distances - Female produces larvae that pupate on ground - Found on horses and cattle
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What are Hypoderma more commonly known as?
- Heel flies - Warble flies - Cattle grubs
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What are the main species of Hypoderma?
- Hypoderma bovis | - Hypoderma lineatum
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Describe the life cycle of Hypoderma
- Adults fly in spring and early summer, lay eggs on skin - Eggs hatch, larvae migrate and moult through body - Between muscles to oesophagus or up to nerves to vertebrae then to skin where moult again - Cut breathing holes to hide in - Final stage grubs drop to ground and pupate - Cycle ~1 year
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What are the 3 main species of Gasterophilus? What are the differences?
- Intestinalis: lays eggs around knees - Nasalis: lays eggs under jaw - Haemorrhoidalis: lays eggs around lips
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Describe the life cycle of Gasterophilus species
- Eggs laid in varying places depending on species - Taken into mouth of horse - Larvae hatch and migrate through mouth to pharynx then swallowed - Bind to glandular-non-glandular junction of stomach - Passed in faeces after moulting - Pupate in soil into adults
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What are Gasterophilus more commonly known as?
Horse bots
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What are Oestrus ovis mor commonly known as?
Sheep nasal bot fly
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What type of reproduction do Oestrus ovis carry out?
Larviparous
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What are the effects of Oestrus ovis infestation?
- Profuse discharge, thickening of nasal mucosa - Impairs respiration - Larvae present in sinuses sometimes able to escape, die = septic sinuses - Sometimes enter brain
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What is Lucilia sericata more commonly known as?
Common green bottle
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Describe parasitism by Lucilia sericata
- Facultative parasites - Eat carrion as well as causing strike - Mainly eat lymph and necrotic tissue - Only eat healthy tissue when overcrowded
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Where are eggs of Lucilia sericata laid?
- Moist areas where infection is already underway | - e.g. deep in fleece or in infected wound
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List species of blow flies that cause cause strike in the UK
- Lucilia sericata (common green bottle) - Phormia regina (black blow fly) - Calliphora vicina/ erythrocephala ( blue bottle fly) - Protophormia terraenovae
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Describe Sarcophagidae
- Genus Wohlfahrtia - Flesh flies - OBligate larval parasite of warm blooded vertebrates in Med, eastern and central Europe, Asia minor - Cause rapid and severe myiasis i most livestock
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What are the potential agents of fly strike/
- Screwworm | - Blow/bottle flies
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Describe fly strike lesions in sheep
- Range from cm diameter of skin hyperaemia with small number of maggots - To extensive areas of traumatised/devitalised skin causing death in neglected cases
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What are the legal requirements regarding fly strike in sheep?
- Check low ground and upland sheep daily | - Death of sheep due to blowfly strike can lead to prosecution under animal welfare legislation
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Give risk factors for fly strike in sheep
- Faecal staining around perineum - Virulent foot rot lesions - Dermatophilosis lesions on skin - Urine scaling around prepuce - Leaving shot pests in fields with sheep
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Outline control of fly strike in rabbits
- Check rabbit daily, especially in warm months - Clean immediately if necessary - Clean litter trays and remove soiled bedding daily - Staple net curtains over hutch/run - Look out for conditions prevent self-cleaning e.g dental, spinal, obesity - Incorrect diets leading to too many caecotrophs
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What are the key aspects of fly control?
- Husbandry - Mechanical - Chemicals - Biological control
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Describe husbandry in fly control
- Remove litter/manure, carcasses | - Ensure animals are healthy i.e. shear soild wool/fur, clean and protect wounds
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Describe mechanical aspects of fly control
- Barriers, meshes, traps | - Cleaning/burning
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Describe chemical aspects of fly control
- Insecticides, repellents - On animal - On environment - Fairly non-specific, may kill off other insects
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Give examples of biological aspects of fly control
- Parasitoids wasps | - Nematodes/bacteria
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Which fly has the least potential to act as a vector of infection and why?
- Bot fly | - Does not take a blood meal
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Describe the mouthparts of nematocera
Piercing
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What fly acts as a vector for Dirofilaria immitis?
Mosquito
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What flies act as vectors for Typanosomiasis?
- Tsetse fly (Glossina) | - Culicoides
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What kind of hypersensitivity is Culicoides sensitivity and what is teh condition called?
- Type I, IgE mediateed | - Sweet itch
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How is Culicoides sensitivity diagnosed?
- Mainly by ruling out other causes - Serology for IgE - Intradermal allergy testing - history and clinical presentation
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Outline teh control of Culicoides hypersensitivity
- Keep in field out of breeze - Keep in at peak times (msot active at night) - Use fly rugs - Control pruritus and treat any secondary infections - Fly repellent (citronella, DEET) - Corticosteroids - Antihistamines
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