Texas FFA Entomology CDE Bank

Entomology

To which body segment are the elytra attached

Mesothorax

The old shed skin left behind after an insect molts is known as the \_______

excuvium

The eastern population of monarch butterflies overwinter in \__________

Central Mexico

The abdomen of insects is specialized for:

Reproduction and digestion

What is the primary function of the wax layer of the exoskeleton?

Water barrier

\_________ represents the most specious order of insects, with approximately\_______ species

Coleoptera, 400,00

Firebrats and silverfish are common household pests in the order \__________.

Thysanura

A tool used to collect insects using your mouth or a hand bulb and a small vial is called a/an

Aspirator

A geniculate insect antenna is

elbowed

________ is a family in the order ________

A. Chrysomelidae, Collembola

B. Torricidae, Hempitera

C. Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae

D. Chrysomelidae, Coleoptera

Chrysomelidea, Coleoptera

What is the visible characteristics that can be used to separate make and female mosquito adults

Males generally with plumose antennae, females with only a few short hairs

Which structure would not be found on an insect's pretarsus

Trochanter

The Johnston's organ _____

Seperates the class insecta from the class entognatha

Senses physical Environmental stimuli

is used to detect changes between antennal segments

all of the above

All of the above

The following this the genus of the yellow fever mosquito and Asian tiger mosquito that vectors dengue, chikungunya and zika viruses

Aedes

Dolbears law refers to what insect and environmental relationship?

Predicting air temperature with cricket chirps

The following sections are parts if an insect's leg?

Coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia and tarsus

\________ is found as both a supporting element in fungal cell walls and a key component of arthropod exoskeletons

Chitin

Predaceous diving beetles belong to what insect order

coleoptera

Which of the following insect groups has hemimetabolous development

weevils

mayflies

ants

house flies

Mayflies

The majority honey bees in a colony are females and called

workers

An insect heart is best described as a _________

four chambered

dorsal vessel

lymphatic system

closed circulation

dorsal vessel

\________ are thought to be one of the first arthopods

Trilobites

If an insect is described as zoophilic, that insect prefers _____ to _____.

plants; animals

humans;animals

animals;plants

animals;humans

Animals; Humans

Functions of the insect hemolymph includes:

wasted removal to excretory organs

hormone transport

distribution of nutrients from the gut

all of the above

all of the above

The reproductive organ in male insects for transferring sperm is the \_________

aedeagus

When and where were the first fire ants discovered in North America

Mobile, Alabama in the 1930s

Ground beetles and cocroaches have \________ legs used for running

Cursorial

The \_________ civilization regarded dung beetles as sacred

Egyptian

What is the correct common name for solenopsis invicta buren?

Red imported fire ant

Why do insects molt

to change from one instar to another

to complete a step in metamorphosis

to grow

all of the above

all of the above

The butterfly pupa is known as a\_________

Chrysalis

\________ flour has been developed and marketed in recent years as a new form of supplemental protein and a cooking agent

Cricket

In which of the following insects do only females suck blood

louse

mosquito

bed bug

flea

Mosquito

The prime cause of insect extinctions, at least of local populations if not species, is \___________

Habitat Loss

Mole crickets have \___________ legs used for digging

Fossorial

In what irder of insect are the front wings known as "elytra?"

Coleoptera

Oothecas, or egg cases, belonging to what insect order?

Mantodea

Which of the following orders of insect is most closely related to diptera

siphonaptera

thysanura

montodea

hymenoptera

Siphonaptera

The \__________ is the ventral surface of the thorax of insects

Sternum

What order of insects is generally considered most important from a medical and veterinary standpoint

Diptera

Which insect structure develops from embryonic ectodern

Brain

The insect abdomen contains

the digestion tract

organs for excretion

the reproductive tract

all of the above

All of the above

A caterpillar of cabbage butterfly is a common pest of ___________

Vegetables

The body temperature of insects changes with ambient environmental temperatures. Therefore, most insects cannot efficiently change their internal body temperature above the temperature of the environment. The first sentence describes \_________ while the second sentence describes \__________.

Ecothermy and endothermy

In what two states would one be most likely to contract rabbit fever, a disease that can be carried by ticks

California and nevada

Arkansas and Missouri

ohio and Illinois

texas and oklahoma

Arkansas and Missouri

How does the honey bee queen decide the sex of her offspring?

By laying haploid eggs into large cells for drones, and diploid eggs into small cells for workers

During the \______, German cockroaches are very active.

Night

Abdominal gills allow insects to utilize oxygen that is _______.

trapped in the tissues of aquatic plants

atmospheric

generated by metabolic activity

dissolved in the surrounding water

dissolved in the surrounding water

What structure protects the midgut from abrasion by food particles and acts as a sieve?

Peritrophic membrane

Webspinners belong to which insect order?

Embioptera

If an insect is described as having haustellate mouthparts, it means that the insect consumes _____________.

Liquid food

Chemicals released from plants to attract parasitic or predaceous insects that combat herbivorous insects are called\_________

Kairomones

The boll weevil anthonomus grandis was a sever cotton pest belonging to which family of beetles

curculionidae

Blister beetles have what substance in their bodies that can be toxic to livestock

Cantharadin

The renowned myrmecologist \___________ established the field of sociobiology

E.O. Wilson

Which of the following arthropods are not insects?

daddy long legs

tardigrade

isopod

all of the above

All of these are not insects

The eyes of caterpillars are called \________.

Stemmata

A dun is a fly fishing term used to describe what type of insect?

A mayfly sub-adult

\_____________ secrete a bubbly liquid-covering on plants to conceal themselves or their eggs.

Spittle bugs

\________ is the appropriate concentration of ethanol to preserv most insects

70%

As juvenile hormone levels fall in the hemolymph, what reaction is triggered in insects?

Immature forms start to change towards adulthood

The butterfly that mimics the monarch in coloration because of the distastefulness of monarchs to predators is the \________.

Viceroy

The following are some of the major insect wing veins

medial, coxal, femoral

anal, tibial, subcostal

coxal, radius, tibial

costa, radius, cubitus

Costa radius cubitus

The pleural suture lies just posterior to the ________.

episternum

_________ do not belong to the order Hemiptera

aphids

leafhoppers

cicadas

bristletails

Bristletails

Which of the following is the common name of the order Mecoptera

Scorpionfly

Insect have evolved over a period of approximately \________ years

400 million

Which structures are innervated by the protocerbrum of an insect's brain

Compound eyes and ocelli

SOme insect neggs hatch inside the mother's body before exiting. An insect with this type of reproduction is called \________.

Viviparous

The father of modern taxonomy who created the binomial system of nomenclature was \_________.

Carl Linnaeus

Which part of the exoskeleton lies between the exocuticle and the wax layer?

Cuticulin layer

Which structure is not part of an insect's antenna

scape

flagellum

pedicel

coxa

Coxa

What is the principle energy source for most insects

Carbohydrates

In many insects, three light-sensitive "simple" eyes or \_____, are situated of the anterior vertex between the compound eyes

Ocelli

The "powder" left over from being in contact with moths or butterflies is actually tiny \_______

Scales

A measure of insect dispersion gives an indication of \________

The random, clumped, or uniform distribution of individuals across a given area

Axillary sclerites form points of attachment for muscles that control the:

Wings

Approximately \______species of insects are used as food in many parts of the world

500

Which insects never develop wings?

fleas

earwigs

book louse

aphids

Fleas

Dermestid beetles that feed on dry and pinned specimens are commonly repelled with \_______

Naphthalene

The absolute minimum information that must be associated with insect specimens after collection include \_______

Location and date

All of the following insects have holometabolous development, except

coleoptera

neuroptera

mecoptera

thysanoptera

Thysanoptera

A \__________is a trap used to separate insects from soil or leaf litter

berlese funnel

What is a hematophagous insect

One that feeds on blood

Insects from this order do not act as pollinators

Phasmatodea

Junctions between abdominal segments are best described as \_________.

Telescoping

What are some reasons that could have influenced the large size of insects prehistorically

Higher oxygen levels in the atmosphere and fewer aerial predators

When an insect has a vestigial mouthpart, that insect \_________

cannot eat

What does it mean when an insect is described as hemimetabolous

The insect a nymphal stage

\____________ are the individual light-sensing and image forming units of the insect's compound eye

ommatidia

What is the function of aeropyle of an insect's egg

gas exchange

Which structure would not be found on an insect's leg

propodeum

coxa

tarsomere

arolium

propodeum

What order of insect vectors chagas disease

Hemiptera

Cochineal is a natural product produced from:

scales

After its second molt an insect is a \_________ instar

third

WHich insect orders are exclusively herbivorous

orthoptera and phasmotodea

psocoptera and trichoptera

thysanoptera and neuroptera

lepidoptera and hemiptera

Orthoptera and Phasmatodea

\____________ are the two orders of primitively wingless insects

Archaeognatha and thysanura

What do the orders Mantodea and Blattodea have in common

eggs are produced inside a pouch or ootheca

Dermaptera or earwigs are most closely relared to which insect order

Orthoptera

Katydids belong to which insect order

Orthoptera