Integrated pest management Quiz 1

lectures 1-5

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Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

Posterior

Close to the back/abdomen

Anterior

Close to the head/front

Proximal

Close to the body

Distal

Away from the body

Dorsal

Top of the body

Ventril

bottom of the body

Three parts of a hexapod

Head, Thorax, Abdomen

Three parts of the thoras

Prothorax, Mesothorax, Metathorax

Compound eyes are made up of what?

Ommatidia

What are antenna covered in?

Olfactory receptors that bind to free-floating molecules like water, hormones and odors.

Cursorial

used for running/walking

Fossorial

used for digging

Raptorial

used for catching prey

Saltorial

used for jumping

natorial

used for swimming

Prehensile

used for grabbing

Membranous

clear wings w/veins

Tagmina

front wings are parchment like or leathery

Elytra

Hard forewings

Hemelytra

Front wings that are leathery

Halteres

Small club like wings

Fringed

Slender wings made up of hairs

Hairy

front and back wings covered in setae

scaled

wings covered in scales

Ovipositor

a tube like organ on females that is used for laying eggs, can also be a stinger.

Scavenger/Detrivore

Feeds on decaying/dead oraganic matter

predator

kills its prey and eats it

parasitoid

feeds on its living host

nectrivore

feeds on plant nector

blood feeder

feeds on animals blood

folivore

eats leaves

sap feeder

feeds on the sap of plants

wood borer

eats wood

root feeder

eats the mf roots

gall maker

triggers plants into abnormal growths

reproductive plant eater

eats seeds, nuts and fruits.

Phagy

feeding behavior

Monophagous

eats only one type of food

Oliphagous

eats plants within the same family

Polyphagous

eats all sorts of things

sexual

females mate with males

asexual

females create female clones

Oviperous

lays eggs

Viviparous

live berth

Voltinism

the number of generations

Univoltine

One gereration per year

Bivoltine

Two generations per year

Multivoltine

more than two generations per year

Semivoltine

more than 1 year between generations

Fecundity

number of eggs laid

Flight

uses wings

Crawling

no wings

Passive

by wind/humans/hosts

Spiracles

openings in the exoskeleton that allow for breathing 

Hemolymph

basically bug blood

Ganglia

dense clusters of neurons

Holometabolous

complete metamorphosis

Hemimetabolous

incomplete metamorphosis

Instar

the development stage between molts

Ecdysis

the process of molting between life stages

Ecdysone

This is the molting hormone

Juvenile Hormone

This is the metamorphosis hormone

Diapause

long term arrested development

Quiescence

short term arrested development/slowed development

invasive species

a species that heavily colonizes and negatively impacts a habitat

non-native species

a species living outside its normal range but not maybe being a bad guy

Invasion Pathways

wood products, luggage, nursery plants

Enemy escape hypothesis

by entering a new range the species has gotten away from natual predators

Defense-Free Space Hypothesis

the native plant/insect did not co-develop alongside the invader and has no defense