Entomology

BUGS

To which body segemnt are the elytra attached

mesothorax

The old shed skin left behind after an insect molds is know 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 speciose order of insects, with approximately----- species

Coleoptera, 400,000

Firebrats and silverfish are common househould pest in the order

thysanura

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

Aspirator

A geniculate insect antenna is

elbowed

_______is a family in the order_________

Chrysomelidae, Coleoptera

What is the visible characteristic that can be used to seperate male and female mosquito adults

Males generally with plumose antenae, females with only few short hairs

Which structure would not be found on an insects pretarsus

Trochanter

The Johnstons organ______

A. All of the Above

B. Seperates the class insecta from the class entognatha

C. Senses physical environmnet stimuili (Vibrations, Wind , Gravity)

D, Is used the detect changes between antennal Segemnts

A. All of the above

The following is the genus of the " yellow fever mosquito" and "asian tiger mosquito" that vectors dengue, chikungya and zika viruses.

Aedes

Dolbears law refers to what insect and environmental relationship?

predicting air tempature with cricket chirps

The following sections are part of an insects leg:

Coxa, Trochanter, Femur, Tibia and tarsus

is found both as a supporting element in fungal cell walls and a key compound of arthropod

chitin

Predaceous diving beetles belong to what insect order?

Coleoptera

Which of the following insect groups has hemimetabolous development

A. Weevils

B. Mayflies

C. Ants

D, huse flies

Mayflies

The majority of honey bees in a colony are female and called

Workers

An insect heart is best described as a ______________.

dorsal vessel

_______ are thought to be one of the first arthropods

Trilobites

omj its pokemon Kabuto, in real life

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

Animals, Humans

Function of the insect hemolymph includes

A, Wasted removal to excretory organs

B. hormone transplant

C. All of the Above

D. Distribution of nutrients from the gut

C. All of the above

The reproductive organ in male inxets for transferring sperm is the

Aedeagus

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

Mobile, Alabama in the 1930's

ground beetles and cockraoches have ________ Legs used for running

cursorial

The _______ Civilization regarded dung beetles as sacred

Egyptian

What is the commen name fore Solenopsis invicta buren

red imported fire ant

The butterfly pupa is known as the

chrysalis

Why do insects molt?

A. To change from one instar to another

B. All of the ABove

C. to complete a step in meta morphosis

D, To Grow

B. All of the above

---- 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 the females drink blood

A. Louse

B. Mosquito

C. Bedbug

D.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 order of insects are the front wings known as "Elytra"

Coleoptera

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

Mantodea

Which of the following orders of insects is most closely related to Diptera?

A. Siphonaptera

B.Thysanura

C. Mantodea

D. 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 ectoderm?

Brain

The insect abdomen contains

A. All of the Above

B. The Deigestive Track

C. Organs for excretian

B. The reproductive tract

A. All of the above

A caterpillar of the cabbage butterfly is a common pest of

Vegetables

The body temperatures of insects changes with ambient environmental tempatures, therefore, most insects cannot efficienatly change thier internal body tempatyure above the tempature of the environmewnty . The first sentence describes_______, while the second descirbebed _________

Ectothermy and endothermy

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

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 ____________________.

Dissolved by 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 atrract parasitic or predaceous insects that combat herbivorous insects are called?

Kaiomones

The boil weevil Anthonomus grandis was a sever cottom pest belonign the which family of beetles?

Curcliondae

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

Cantharidae

The renowned myrmecologist __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ establishes the feild of sociobiology

E.O. Wilson

Which of the following arthropods are not insects

A. All of these are not insects

B. Daddy Long Legs

C. Tardigrade

D. Isopod

A. All of these are not insects

The best Bullet for my Valentine song?

Tears Don't Fall.

The eyes of caterpillars are called

stemmata

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

A. A Mayfly Adult

B. A stonfly Nymph

C. A mayfly sub adult

D. A caddisfly sub-adult

C. A Mayfly sub-adult

---- is the appropriate concentration of ethanol to preserve most insects.

70%

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

immature forms start to change towards adulthood

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

Spittle Bugs