what is the difference between vectors and pests?
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The term “pest” is a very broad term that basically defines organisms that are an annoyance to humans because they are in places we don't want them to be, like our homes. Examples of pests include: ants, bed bugs, lice, mosquitoes, and wasps. Vectors are organisms that transmit disease to humans.
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Bedbugs are bigger than lice, about the size of an apple seed, while lice are about the size of a sesame seed. Bedbugs have flat, oval bodies, while lice are more oblong in shape. Bedbugs are brown, while lice are usually transparent, white, or yellow. Once lice fill with blood, they will become a brown color.
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Although fruit flies and gnats are both small flying insects, they're from different families. The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) is in the Drosophilidae family, while gnats come from different families, including Sciaridae, Anisopodidae and Mycetophilidae, and there are many gnat species.
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No, gnats are the full grown adult of their kind. ... Both gnats and flies start out as eggs, then hatch and become larva or “maggots” and then pupate into their adult form. So, the simple answer is that little gnats do not grow up to be big repulsive flies. A gnat is a gnat and a fly is a fly.
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What is the difference between Cozmo and Vector? There is very little to distinguish between the two at first glance. Apart from paintjob, they both display similarly cuddly look and feel. The biggest 'feel' difference is that Vector is largely an autonomous, app-free robot.
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The big difference between the two is the way the get their food. A mushroom feed on dead organic matter while a tick feed on a living host. Saprophytes are plants while parasites can be plants or animals.
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While cockroaches are one of the most common pest problems, they are also one of the most stubborn. Infestations are hard to get rid of because the insects hide in a host of areas, breed quickly, have a very high reproductive potential and may develop resistance to pesticides.
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If you come across another small insect that has wings, you might have encountered a gnat. These tiny, black, flying insects are about the same size as a flea, but, thank goodness, most species don't bite humans or animals. Gnats live off rotten or decaying material and are more prevalent during the winter months.
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There are many differences between fleas and ticks, including: The type of parasite they are: A flea is a wingless insect with six legs that can jump. Ticks, on the other hand, have six to eight legs and are arachnids, which means they're related to spiders.
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The host is the living being that the bacteria, virus, protozoan, or other disease-causing microorganism normally resides in. ... A vector is an organism that helps transmit infection from one host to another. For example, the mosquito serves as the vector to infect humans with the West Nile virus.
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The basic difference between biological transmission and mechanical transmission is that in biological transmission, the agent develops and/or propagates within the vector, while in mechanical transmission, the simple transfer of agents from one infected host or a contaminated substrate to a susceptible host occurs.
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​People often think of the term pesticide as referring only to something that kills insects, but "pesticide" is a broad term and includes products that don't kill anything, such as insect repellents. Products labeled as repellents are not designed to eliminate pests.
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A gnat (say: NAT) is one of a family of insects that includes flies and mosquitoes. Gnats are actually tiny flies and are sometimes called blackflies or midges. ... Unlike mosquitoes, gnats usually don't bite through clothing. But they can crawl into hair or under clothing to get at places such as ankles and belt lines.
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So in a nutshell, here are the differences between bed bugs and ticks: Bed bugs are insects (6 legs), while ticks are arachnids (like spiders) (adults have 8 legs) Bed bugs feed mainly on human blood but can bite animals, while ticks feed mainly on animal blood but will bite humans.
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Vectors are not lines and they have a very different function than lines. A vector is a direction and a magnitude, that's it. ... A line, of course, has direction and magnitude, but it also has LOCATION. A vector can be anywhere, but a line exists within space.
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Crop Pests. animals that injure or kill cultivated plants. The harm done by plant pests and diseases is great. ... The most varied and numerous species of crop pests are arthropods: insects, arachnids (mites), and some species of millipedes and crustaceans (wood lice).
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In epidemiology, a disease vector is any agent which carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism; agents regarded as vectors are organisms, such as intermediate parasites or microbes.