REN R205 Study Guide - Final Guide: Population Control, Buprestidae, Sawfly

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Renewable Resources
• Course: REN R205
• Professor: John Acorn

Document Summary

Carnivores: black bears, grizzlies, cougars, coyotes, wolves, wolverines, badgers, etc. Reptiles: alligators, crocodiles, burmese and rock pythons, snapping turtles. Ungulates and goring: cervids, bison, peccaries and others. Scorpions: centruroides exilicauda (arizona), most are not life threatening. Hymenopterans: ants (harvester, fire), honeybees (africanized and. European), social wasps (paper wasps, yellow jackets, bald-faced hornets), sweat bees and others. Vector: animals that can transmit the causative organism. Reservoir: animals that are infected by the causative organism. Causative organism: that which causes the disease. Nematocera: mosquitoes (blood loss, stress, malaria, dengue, yellow fever, encephalitis, west nile virus), black flies, no-see-ums (biting midges). Brachycera: horse and deer flies, stable flies. Sucking lice: three taxa on people, can vector typhus. Fleas: on pets, livestock, and wild mammals (the plague). Ticks: great diversity (lyme disease, spotted fever, paralysis). Feeding guilds: defoliators, phloem feeders, seed predators, bark beetles, wood borers (beetles, sawflies, caterpillars), bud feeders, flower spoilers, fruit spoilers, root feeders, turf pests.