ENTO 2003 Final

Which order of insects has chewing mouthparts, hard front wings, and back wings that are membranous?

Coleoptera

The only class of Arthropoda that bever has antennae is:

Arachnida

What are the life stages of an insects that has paurometabolous development?

Egg, nymph, adult

when a person is afraid of being stung by an insect because of being told how much it hurts or have seen videos about a person in pain they exhibit:

Vicarious family dependency

Based on damage to crops that include the foods humans eat, which organisms cause the most losses?

Lepidoptera

A monarch butterfly and a human share which of the following characteristics?

They share all of these characteristics

Zika virus is transmitted by:

Mosquitoes

Which order has immatures and adults that have different mouthparts and feed on different things?

Lepidoptera

Which insect order has back wings that are reduced to paddles?

Diptera

Which class or classes of arthropods have been used in battle to attack or defend a location?

Arachnida

What are the life stages of a dragonfly?

Egg, naiad, adult

What is the lowest taxonomic level shared by both scorpions and wasps?

Phylum

Most healthy humans have several thousand eyelash mites living in their eyelids. These mites share what level of taxonomy with their human hosts?

Kingdom

Many scorpions have large claws. Not counting the claws, how many legs do these scorpions have?

8

Which type of insects have a pupa as a life stage?

Coleoptera

When a butterfly is touched by a human and loses scales off of its wings, what happens?

It cannot escape spider webs

This order has some members that feed on blood. For the blood feeders, some use piercing-sucking mouthparts and other use a slash and sponge technique. What order is this?

Diptera

Locusts like the ones that swarmed in the central United States in the past caused huge losses of food. To what order do they belong?

Orthoptera

Which one of the following is NOT transported by an insects’ circulatory system?

Oxygen

Your friend has a rash on her left arm. She believes that insects bit her and she cannot stop scratching. You feel very itchy too and want to scratch your arm. What are you experiencing?

Bell’s syndrome

Which country tested the release of mosquitoes on its own citizens in a project called “Big Buzz”?

United States of America

What is the largest contribution that insects provide to the U.S. economy?

Provide food for fish and wildlife

Which of the following societal responses is similar between Covid and the Black Plague?

All are similarities of Covid and Black Death

What is the lowest taxonomic category shared by both beetles and cicadas?

Class

We watched a video that featured lemurs biting arthropods and rubbing them on their fur. What kind of invertebrate did the lemurs use?

Diplopoda

You find a small green bee feeding on a flower near your house. When you look at it, it flies away. What else do you know about this insect?

It is mature

The rollie pollies you find on the sidewalk belong to which class?

Crustacea

What type of mouthparts do adult Lepidoptera have?

Siphoning

What is the lowest taxonomic category shared by both lobsters and millipedes?

Phylum

What limits the maximum size of insects today?

All of the above: Molting, Lack of oxygen transport, and heavy exoskeleton with weak membranes.

Which order of insects had prolegs as an immature?

Lepidoptera

You find the shell of a cicada on a tree. What is this shell?

An exuvia of Hemiptera

When an insects has a larva that is aquatic and an adult that is terrestrial but has no pupal stage, what type of metamorphosis does it have?

Hemimetabolous

Which of the following common names refers to an insect that in the Order Hymenoptera?

Mason bee

Which order of insects kills the most humans every year, accounting for more than 600,000 deaths?

Diptera

What order name translates to “straight wings”?

Orthoptera

Which insects transmitted disease led to the development of the quarantine protocols that are still followed today?

Plague

When scientists study walking stick insects in Oklahoma, they find that some populations that are close together look different but can breed and have offspring. Individuals from further away look different and are not able to breed. What is this scenario called?

Ring species

A person who is diagnosed with illusory parasitosis has:

A misconception about the source of their symptoms

You find a moth that looks just like tree bark. What word describes is camouflage?

Crypsis

This order of insects is named for having half leathery and half membranous front wings, but not all insects in the order have these types of wings. What feature do all members of the order share?

All of the above: Membranous back wings, piercing-sucking mouthparts, and Entomologists call them true bugs.

Which order of insects always has different mouthparts as immatures and as adults?

Lepidoptera

What order does a honey bee belong to?

Hymenoptera

When two unrelated insects look similar and one can defend itself by stinging while the other that looks similar cannot, the one that cannot defend itself is called a _______ mimic.

Batesian

Which arthropod class has the least number of legs as an adult?

Insecta

you find a tiny gnat in your friend’s house. As you look closer at your glass, you discover a large spider on the ground under the table. You leave quickly, but thinking to class discussions, you compare the surface area to volume ratios of the two. The spider has a

Smaller surface area to volume ratio than the gnat

Entomology exists today because in the late 1800s swarms of these insects caused huge economic losses in the U.S. What is the common name and order of these insects?

Grasshoppers … Hemiptera

What happened to Ishi Shiro, the leader of the Japanese biological weapons program, after the war?

He was freed and given a job in the United States

You find a yellow and black insects. Looking closely, you see that the front wings are hard and meet in the middle of the insect’s back. The insect has chewing mouthparts. Which order does this insect belong?

Coleoptera

What is wrong with lyrics from the baby bumble bee song:

“I’m bringing home a baby bumblebee,

Won’t my mommy be so proud of me,

I’m bringing home a baby bumblebee,

Ouch! He stung me!”

Both A and B: Baby bumble bees can’t sting and Male bees can’t sting

Which order produces a spermatophore?

Orthoptera

When handled, a stink bug stops trying to escape after a few minutes. What behavior is exhibited?

Habituation

Which land plants use insects for pollination?

Angiosperms

A population of spiders has individuals with long legs that are able to run away from ants. Individuals with short legs are also able to survive attacks by ants by pressing into the ground. Through time, individuals with long legs and individual with short legs increase in number. What type of selection is exhibited?

Disruptive

What type of bee is best at pollinating tomatoes that are native to North America

Bumble bee

A beetle survives winter in Oklahoma by being able to super cool. What does this beetle add to its blood to allow it to survive temperatures below 32 F?

Either alcohol or salts

Which of the following insect’s structures are covered in exoskeleton?

All of the above: The outside of the insect, the hindgut, and the aedeagus

Spiracles are the opening of the insect respiratory system. On what segment/s are spiracles NOT found?

On the head

Flowering plants sometimes trick insects into being pollinators without providing reward. Orchids are a type of plant that tricks insects into attempting to mate with it. What type of insect does the plant trick?

Male bees

What is sound produced by insects used for?

All the above: attracting mates, recruiting more insects to an area, and scaring predators

What insects DO NOT have ocelli?

Mature Orthoptera

What arthropod class has the most species where females eat the male before, during, or after mating?

Arachnida

Which part of an insect functions both as the stomach and the small intestine to digest and absorb food?

Midgut

Insects, such as fireflies that are active at dawn and dusk show what type of activity pattern?

Crepuscular activity

A female mud dauber makes a mud nest and then collects spiders to feed her young. When she leaves her nest to look for spiders, she first flies around the area. What allows her to find her way back?

Latent learning

Which Orthoptera makes sounds to attract mates?

Adult males

When a male mates with a female the sperm are deposited into a specials structure called a/an?

Spermatheca

What type of development do Chilopoda, Diplopoda, and Arachnida possess?

Ametabolous

What structure does a male spider use to transfer sperm?

Mouthparts

W type of learning has not been demonstrated to exist in insects?

Insight learning

Immature Diptera CAN Not see which of the following colors?

Green, Blue, or UV

The surface area to volume ration of a adult grasshopper is ________ than its surface area to volume ratio when it is first hatches from an egg.

Smaller

“Sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite” is an old saying. Bed bugs find people to feed on by detecting heat. Why are humans warmer than bed bugs?

People are larger than bed bugs

Insects can detect physical information from their environment using touch. Which of following structures can be used to detect physical characteristics such as texture?

Cerci

Which type of eyes do holometabolous adult insects possess?

Both A and B: Simple and Compound eyes

Ticks can transmit a disease called alpha-gal that causes and allergy to develop. To what do people become allergic?

Milk and beef

In the past 100 years, the amount of carbon dioxide has increased in atmosphere. What is the source of this additional carbon dioxide?

Burning of fossil fuels

An insect that is too warm can lose heat by…

Sitting

In an insect, the _____ functions like a human liver and filters its hemolymph.

Fat Body

A population of Diptera has been maintained in a laboratory for 5 years. During that time, they have been exposed to cigarette smoke. The length of their wings has not changed during their time in lab. What type of selection has resulted in no change to wing length despite exposure to smoke?

Stabilizing selection

The reproductive investment of males and females in usually different. Because of this difference, female usually mated with ______

The “best” males

Bees have been trained to detect chemicals used in bombs by providing the bee with s sweet reward. The bees exhibit what type of learning?

Associative learning

How do bees carry nectar back to their nest?

In their bee stomach

Which of the following insects have the same mouthparts as immatures and adults?

All of the above: Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, and Orthoptera

The American cockroach is an example of what?

Exotic species

Insects living in the temperature region get ready for winter based on a token stimulus. What is the token stimulus used?

Day length

How do Japanese honey bees survive raids by Asian giant hornets?

They shiver and overheat the Asian giant hornet

You find a bright orange and black insect that crawls on the ground. What do you know about the insect?

It is aposomatic

What type of insects are most likely to use mechanoreceptors?

Female Othoptera

The most important crops for human food, rice, corn, and wheat, are modified types of grasses. These plants are pollinated by:

Wind

Flowers look different to insects than humans. Compared with a human, a bee can detect nectar guides. How does a bee detect the nectar guides?

With it compound eyes

When a bee visits a flower, she learns if the flower has lot of nectar. If it does, the bee visits other flowers that look similar because she has learned that these flowers provide a reward. What type of learning is she exhibiting?

Associative learning

Which wings are modified in the order Coleoptera?

Front wings

In a population of butterflies there are individuals with different length of wings. The individuals that have the longest wings are the best at finding food and avoiding predators. Through time the length of the wings increases. This is an example of what type of selection?

Directional Selection

Which type of insect is the most attracted to orange flowers?

Lepidoptera

Monarch butterflies that are seen in Stillwater in April spent the winter where?

Mexico

Adult flies have compound eyes and ocelli. What do compund eyes detect?

UV, blue and yellow

A species of dragonfly has been found where females eat males during or after mating. In these dragonflies, the female sometimes eats the male before he mates with her. When she does mate and eat the male, she rejects other males. Based on these observations, which hypothesis is supported?

Suicide male

What structure allows air to reach the insects cells when it breathes?

Trachea

A woman gets married and becomes pregnant with twins. Before pregnancy, she weighed 140 pounds. Just before giving birth, she weighed 195 pounds. A year later after chasing after the twins, she weighs 130 pounds. When is her surface area to volume ratio the smallest?

Just before giving birth