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Entomology Quiz Questions (57 Karten)

Sag Danke

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What do Blister Beetles produce?

cantharadin

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Who identified the moths of Costa Rica?

Dan Janzen

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What order of insects has the greatest color variation?

Lepidoptera

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The scales of a butterfly are modified what?

hairs

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What do Monarch Butterfly larvae sequester?

cardenolides

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The male Florida queen butterfly dusts the female in sex pheromone using what?

hair pensils

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A person is more resistant to malaria if he or she has one copy of the gene for which other disease?

sickle cell anemia

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Stridulation is used by...

grasshoppers

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Miriam Rothshild studied the reproductive biology of what order of insects?

Siphonaptera

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Luciferin is combined with what to produce light in fireflies?

oxygen

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Stabilizers on adult flies are called what?

halteres

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To what order to insects belong that vector Chagas disease?

Hemiptera

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Insects in the genus Anopheles are vectors of what disease?

Malaria

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How many larvae does the Tsetse fly lay in her lifetime?

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What order to cockroaches belong?

Blattodea

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What order to grasshoppers, crickets and locusts belong to?

Orthoptera

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What order to Beetles and weevils belong to? What does the name mean?

Coleoptera

sheath wing

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What order do butterflies and moths belong to? What does the name mean and what are their mouthparts?

Lepidoptera

scale wings

siphoning

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What order do flies and mosquitos belong to? What does it mean? What type of mouthparts do they have?

Diptera

two wings

piercing/sucking, sponging

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To what order do fleas belong? What does their name mean?

Siphonaptera

wingless tube

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The disease agent, Plasmodium, is a what?

Protozoan

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Who discovered the vector of the Yellow fever?

Walter Reed

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What is the moth to butterfly ratio?

20,000 butterflies to 180,000 moths

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Some plants have what on their leaves to protect them from herbivores?

silicon oxide

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What disease does the Kissing Bug spread?

Chagas disease

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What is the vector of River blindness?

Black Flies

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Resilin is found in what insect?

fleas

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What is the guardian of Africa?

the Tsetse fly

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Yellow fever's vector is what insect? What is the disease organism?

Mosquito (Ades)

virus

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Piercing/sucking or sponging mouthparts belong to which order?

Diptera

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How many people die each year from Malaria?

2 million

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What is the genus and species of the insect that causes the bubonic plague?

Yersinia pestis

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How do crickets produce noise?

rubbing a leg against a leg

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Locusts came to N. America from where?

Africa

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What is the disease agent that causes Elephantiasis?

roundworms

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What is the aminosugar that is the main component of an insect's cuticle?

chitin

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Which insect has the largest colonies?

termites

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What type of metamorphosis do termites have?

incomplete

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Termites have a symbiotic relationship with protozoa in order to what?

degrade cellulose

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Birds often nest in Acacia trees with wasp nests. What do the wasps protect them from?

monkeys

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Beltian bodies are made by what type of tree?

Acacia

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Mistletoe butterfly larvae feed on what?

Mistletoe leaves

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Which carnivorous plant is only native to North and South Carolina?

Venus Fly Trap

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Which carnivorous plant has bright colors and sticky tentacles?

Sundew

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What is the name of the insect order than means "apparition"?

Phasmida

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Preying mantids have what type of metamorphosis? They also have raptorial forelegs.

Incomplete

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The preying mantid belongs to what order?

Mantodea

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To what class do scorpions belong?

Arachnida

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What is the vector of Lyme disease?

Deer tick

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To what subclass do ticks and mites belong?

Acari

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The disease agent for Lyme disease is what?

a bacterium

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What are the main body parts of a tick?

the cephalothorax and abdomen

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To what subclass do spiders belong?

Araneae

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What is Stabilimentum?

zig zag cross strands in an Orb Weaver spider's web

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To what order to wasps belong?

Hymenoptera

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How many species of hornets live in GA?

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A modified acts as the stinger of a social wasp.

ovipositor

Kartensatzinfo:

Autor: savhighsmith

Oberthema: Biology

Thema: Entomology

Schule / Uni: UGA

Ort: Athens

Veröffentlicht: 03.05.2010

Tags: UGA Spring 2010

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