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142 Cards in this Set
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Fire ants were first introduced to the US in?
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Mobile Alabama
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the vector of chagas disease is?
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the kissing bug
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Miriam Rothschild is famous for her work with what?
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fleas
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DDT contains?
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chlorine
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Tribesmen in New Guinea eat insects that they collect from sago palm trees. These insects are in the ____ stage of development when they are eaten.
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larvae
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Insects in the order Lepidoptera have ____ mouthparts
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siphoning
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Larvae in the order Lepidoptera have ____ wings
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zero
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Altruism is
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self destructive behavior performed for the good of others
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80% of flowering plants are pollinated by?
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insects
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The EPA was formed in the year?
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1970
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ants have ____ metamorphosis
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complete
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A dragonfly adult has?
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very large eyes, biting mouthparts, and a small antennae
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Insects that are most important in pollination belong to the order?
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Hymenoptera
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Most spiders are?
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predators
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Mayfly nymphs live?
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for 1 to 3 years
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Paper wasps protect themselves from ants by?
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applying a chemical to the base of their nests to repel them
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the mouthparts of hornets differ from the mouthparts of butterflies in that?
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hornets have chewing mouthparts and butterflies have siphoning mouthparts
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Most insects have ____ pair of wings
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one
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Insects in the order Diptera have _______ mouthparts?
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piercing sucking (mosquitoes) or sponging (flies)
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Insects that are the vector for yellow fever belong to the order?
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Diptera
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Fleas belong to the order?
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Siphonoptera
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Adult mosquitoes have ____ pair of wings
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one
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Dragonflies belong to the order?
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Odonata
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A honey bee worker can sting you ___ time in 60 seconds
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one
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when a butterfly larva pupates it makes a?
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chrysalis
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Wrote Silent Springs
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Rachel Carson
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Silk worm moth produces silk. Commercial silk production originated in?
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China
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Chagas Disease is most prevalent in?
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South America
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Mayflies are members of the order?
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Ephemeroptera
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Tropallaxis is?
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exchange of liquid between members of the colony
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the balance of nature is built on a series of interrelationships between living things and between living things and their?
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environment
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Modern DNA technology is now being used to determine the relationships of ancient insects by examining insects recovered from?
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amber
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the nest of Polistes meoicus made of?
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paper (plant fiber) and glue (wasps saliva)
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the paper wasp will molt only when it is a?
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larva
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Damselflies lay their eggs on?
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plant stem underwater
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Batesian Mimicry
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resemblance of an edible species to an unpalatable species to deceive predators
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Hornets recognize their nestmates through?
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cuticular hydrocarbons
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Chapter 17 of silent springs is called
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the other road
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the Viceroy/Monarch butterfly relationship is an example of Batesian Mimicry and in this system
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the Monarch is the model and the viceroy is the mimic
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A caterpillar native to NA occurs in two very different morphological forms that mimics respectively
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flowers and twigs of oak
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Crypsis
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the resemblance of an organism to its background
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the question of forensic entomologist most frequently asked to answer in a murder investigation is?
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How long has a body been dead
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the paper wasp, Polistes meoical, belongs to the genus
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Polistes
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Forest insects excrete uric acid, T/F
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True
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Terry Irwin collected beetles from trees in Panama made an estimate of the number of species. Many of the beetles were in the tree canopy. He collected beetles from the tree canopy by?
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fogging the trees
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Ixodes dammini are ticks that are vectors of?
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Lime Disease
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Rachel Carson
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wrote several books
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the university of Georgia museum of art has a picture entitled Taking a Sunflower to something...the insect sitting on the shoulder of the boy is a?
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butterfly
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Chitin is a polymer made of?
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amino acids
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Five characteristics of insects in the order Orthoptera
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1. Incomplete metamorphosis
2. Chewing mouthparts 3. Strong hind legs 4. Males produce sounds 5. front wings are narrow, back wings are fan like |
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the genus name of the disease agent that causes Malaria is?
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Plasmodium
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How and why does the plague disease agent get into a victim
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Bacteria enter the flea with bloodmeal, bacteria multiply in flea gut, bacteria block entry to gut, flea seeks new host and feeds, regurgitates blood with bacteria, host is now infected
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the disease agent that causes yellow fever
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a virus
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the silk produced by spiders is composed of a?
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protein polymer
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the silk from weaver ants that they use to build their nests comes from?
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ant larvae that they use as a glue gun
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in athens we have _____ of hornets
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two species
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GALIN is?
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the computer system at UGA Library
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the blueberry bees belong to the order?
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Hymenoptera
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the two main body parts of a spider are?
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cephalothorax and abdomen
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Who draws the farside cartoons
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Gary Larson
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The name of the Robert Frost poem about ants is?
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Departmental
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Name of the UGA grad student who worked with the Kayapo Indians in Brazil is?
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Darrel Posey
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Wrote the book Why Not Eat Insects in 1885
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Vincent Holt
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if a honey bee queen lays a fertilized egg in her nest then the sex of the insect that develops from that egg will be a?
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female
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Butterflies have ______ metamorphosis
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complete
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the most important insects to a forensic entomologist who is trying to determine the postmortem interval are?
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blowflies
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The English translation of the order name Hymenoptera is?
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Hymeno = God of marriage, refers to the union of fore and hind wings and optera = wings
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In war insects could be used to?
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destroy crops or to infect people with the plague
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Insects in the order ______ have the greatest variation in color
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Lepidoptera
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the insect order that is most harmful to humans is
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Diptera
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The common name of insects that belong to Phasmida is?
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walking stick
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aphids have ______ metamorphosis
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incomplete
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Ronald Ross is famous for his work with?
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mosquitoes
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The bronze leaf beetle, Diacus auraius belongs to the genus ______
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Diacus
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Bees are
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Pollen feeders
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The arthropod with a red hour glass on its abdomen is the
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black widow spider
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the genus name of the disease agent that causes Lime Disease is
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Borrecia (vector deertick, disease agent bacteria)
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the name of the order where the translation of the name is tube and wingless is
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Siphonaptera
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most insects have _____ pair of antennae
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one
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Randy Lewis of the University of Wyoming works with?
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spiders
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The stinger of the social wasp is a modified?
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ovipositor
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The forensic entomologist was able to show that a suspected rapist was lying because?
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the mask that was in the suspects apartment had burs in it and live caterpillars in the burs. the life cycle of a caterpillar invovles eggs being laid in the summer, meaning the mask had been outside in the last 6 months
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insects in the order ______ are the most important vectors of human diseases
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Diptera (flies and mosquitoes)
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a deer tick is much smaller than a dog tick T/F
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True
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A Local arthropod that has venom that causes skin neorosis is the
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Brown recluse
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Pollination is the?
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transfer of pollen from anther to stigma
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Insects that vector human malaria belong to the order
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Diptera (mosquitoes)
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the migratory grasshopper belongs to the order?
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orthoptera
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Parasol ants are the same as?
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leaf cutter ants
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the hammer orchid is pollinated by a ?
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wasp
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the zig zag strands in the web of an orb weaver spider are called?
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Stabilimentum
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Rachel Carson died in
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1964
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In the US there are ____ species of fire ants
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two
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The developmental stages of an insect with complete metamorphosis are
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egg, larvae, pupa, adult
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Fire ants are
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attracted to electrical current
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the insect vectored disease that causes the most human deaths each year is
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malaria
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an egg case deposited by a preying mantid is an
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ootheca
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adults in the order Hymenoptera have ____ pairs of wings
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two
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DDT was banned from use in the US in
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1972
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Antotomy is
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the ability to lose a leg or body part as to escape predation
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A male honey bee can sting you ____ times in 60 seconds
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zero only females can sting
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spiders belong to the subclass
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araneae
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the disease agent that causes elephantiasis is a
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roundworm
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an arthropod that lives in the Ceoropia tree is the
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azteca ant
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Forms of biological control used to try and control fire ants are
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nematodes, fire ant pheromones with chemical bait, a parasitoid fly
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most spiders
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produce silk
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River blindness is vectored by a black fly T/F
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True
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The genus name of the bacterial agent that caries the bubonic plague is?
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Yersinia
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The disease agent that causes lime disease is a?
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bacterium
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Bald faced hornets
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build bag nest
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Africanized bees
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were released in Brazil in 1957
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the common name for the animal in the class Diplopoda is
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millipedes
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male honey bees mate
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once
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After the second world war silk was produced in Georgia T/F
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false
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Fleas
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are able to adjust their reproductive cycle to match their host
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The scientist responsible for the system of binomial nomenclature was
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Carolus Linnaeus
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Joe Lewis of the USDA lab in Tifton Georgia works with
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parasitoid wasps
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If a Polistes wasp lays a fertilized egg in her nest the sex of the developing insect will be?
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female
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the type of food a muddauber feeds to its young is
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live spiders
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ticks belong to the phylum
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arthropoda
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Mymecology is the study of
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ants
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fire ants are able to eat solids in the life cycle stage
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instar larvae
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Natural selection is
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the change in frequency of genetic traits in a population through differential survival of individuals bearing these traits
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mosquitoes have ______ metamorphosis
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complete
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the function of the palps on a male spider is
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to deliver sperm
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Pollination is carried out by
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solitary bees, honey bees, and something else (all of the above)
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a family of fire ants is called a?
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formicidae
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the mouthparts of house flies differ from those of butterflies in that?
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flies have sponging or piercing/sucking mouthparts and butterflies have siphoning
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the difference between Batesian Mimicry and Mullerian Mimicry is that?
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in Batesian, a harmless species mimics an unpalatable species and in Mullerian, both species that are harmful but not closely related evolve to resemble each other to warn off common predators
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Army ants belong to the order
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Hymenoptera
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the bee, Apis melifera, will carry out pollination if it is?
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an adult
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Dragonflies lay their eggs
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on the surface of the water
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a multiple queen fire ant colony has
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30-60 queens/colony
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the order Orthoptera has
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chewing mouthparts
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the pedicel of a paper wasps' nest is black due to
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fatty acids
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Fire ants originated from
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South America
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Insect order with the most species is
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Coleoptera
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the spermatheca is located in the abdomen of queen fire ants T/F
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True
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Ethnoentomology is
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the cultural impact of insects
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Parasitoid wasps are able to find their bark beetle hosts because
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terpenes attract the parasitorial wasps
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adult Hymenoptera have three pair of wings and the front wings are hooked to the back wings so that they beat as if they were two pair of wings. T/F
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False
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the type of social insect that has the largest colonies is
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termites
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