PATHOLOGY MCQ
PARASITIC DISEASES
Question
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Which of the following are also known as cattle grubs?
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lice
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mites
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ticks
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heel flies
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Adult cattle grubs are commonly known as heel flies, warble flies, bomb flies, or gad flies.
Detailed explanation-2: -warble fly, (family Oestridae), also called cattle grub, bot fly, or heel fly, any member of a family of insects in the fly order, Diptera, sometimes classified in the family Hypodermatidae.
Detailed explanation-3: -Warble fly is a name given to the genus Hypoderma, large flies which are parasitic on cattle and deer.
Detailed explanation-4: -Cattle grubs are the immature or larval stages of heel, warble flies or gad flies. Two species of cattle grubs affect cattle: Hypoderma lineatum, the common cattle grub and Hypoderma bovis, the northern cattle grub.
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