Ento Test #3

Front 1

Order:_____________

____________ = tube

Aptera = __________

commnon name = _______

Adults do not have ________

Back 1

Siphonaptera

Siphon = tube

Aptera = wings

Fleas

​adults do not have wings

Front 2

Siphonaptera::

1. __________ metamorphosis

2. __________ mouthparts

3. No __________

4. Adults of ________ sexes are ___________

________________

5. __________ body

6. Many are ________ _________

Back 2

1. complete

2. piercing/sucking

3. wings

4. both sexes are bloodsucking parasites

5. narrow

6. disease vectors

Front 3

Fleas:

1. Female needs _______ for eggs

2. Females eats _______ her weight/daily.

3. Females lay __________ eggs

4. Eggs hatch in ____ to ____ days

5. Larvae feed on _______ _______

**If flea, _______ take ________ ________

**If mosquito, ________ takes blood meal

Back 3

1. blood

2. 15 x's

3. 2,000

4. 1 - 10

5. adult feces

**both sexes take blood meal

**only female takes blood meal

Front 4

Fleas::

1. Larva spins a _____ _______

2. _______ is well camouflaged

3. Life cycle = _____ to _____ days

4. Environment (__________&____________) is very

important.

Back 4

1. sticky cocoon

2. cocoon

3. 12 - 174

4. temperature and humidity

Front 5

Fleas are attracted to::

1.

2.

3.

4.

Back 5

1. Heat

2. CO2

3. Light

4. Movement

Front 6

Fleas::

1. can jump _________ their length

2. ​__________ = protein unique to fleas in the

back legs that work like a rubber

band.

Back 6

1. 200 x's

2. Resilin

Front 7

Miriam Rothschild is a world ________ ________::

1. She showed that _______________________________

___________________________ .

2. _______ _______ adjusts her __________ cycle to

match that there of her host.

3. Lays her eggs on _________ of host.

Back 7

Miriam Rothschild is a world Flea Expert::

1. Female fleas react to sex hormones of a

pregnant female host.

2. Female flea adjusts her reproductive cycle

3. babies

Front 8

________ _________

1. bacteria multiply in humans

2. swollen lymph glands = _______

3. death rate = _____%

Back 8

Bubonic Plague

2. bubo

3. 75%

Front 9

Bubonic Plague

Vector = _______

Disease = _________

_________ ________

Antibiotic treatment is _________

Current Areas: ______________________________

Major outbreak in ________ in 1994

Back 9

vector = fleas

disease= bacteria

Yersinia pestis

effective

Russia, Middle East, Africa, Western US

India 1994 outbreak

Front 10

____________ ____________ = discovered adult female fleas can change reproduction cycles to mimic that of their host; more susceptible to fleas.

Back 10

Miriam Rothschild

Front 11

Elephantiasis::

vector= ________

Disease organism = ___________

causes _________ ___________

_______ million people in SE Asia have Eleph.

Back 11

mosquitoes

roundworms

swollen appendages

300 million

Front 12

River Blindness::

vector= ___________

disease= _________

location= West Africa

______ million affected

Back 12

Black flies

round worms

W. Africa

20 million

Front 13

Name 3 uses of insects in war.

Back 13

1. Modify plague bacteria

2. destroy crops

3. war on drugs

Front 14

Middle East, 1345::___________________________

Back 14

captured flea-covered corpses into besieged city to spread plague.

Front 15

__________ _________ = Ph.D. at UGA in 1979

Ethnoentomology of the Kayapo of Central

Brazil

Back 15

Darrell Posey

Front 16

Kayapo Indians = "________ ___ _____"

1. Ceremony to __________________________

2. Young men ____________________

3. Wasp nest = the ______________

Back 16

"Coming of age"

1. acquire power of the wasps

2. hit the large wasp nest

3. the Universe

Front 17

_____________ __________ wrote

"Why Not Eat Insects?"

Back 17

Vincent Holt

Front 18

Insects are nutritious:

1.

2.

3.

Back 18

1. Protein

2. Fat

3. Vitamins

Front 19

Australian aborigines eat ______________________.

Back 19

beetle larvae Witchetty Grubs (tastes like chicken)

Front 20

New Guinea::

sago palm provides...

1.

2.

Back 20

1. Starch = 80% calories

2. larvae of capricorn beetle = protein snack

Front 21

Insects are rich in protein::

1. Botswana - ___________________

2. Thailand - __________________

- _________________

- _________________

Back 21

1. botswana - charcoal grilled caterpillars

2. thailand - steamed bamboo worms

- waterbugs

- steamed hornet grubs

Front 22

South American Indians eat ____________ .

1. capture tarantula - avoid venom and _________

2. barbecue tarantulas - tastes like _________

Back 22

Tarantulas.

1. avoid venom and toxic hairs

2. bbq tastes like shrimp

Front 23

Insects in the arts

_______________ are a favorite subject.

Back 23

butterflies

Front 24

The following poem depicts what::

Ring around the rosies

pocket full of posies

ashes, ashes

we all fall down

Back 24

Bubonic plague

Front 25

Who wrote the worlds shortest poem?

Back 25

Ogden Nash- "Fleas"

--> Adam had 'em.

Front 26

Robert Frost wrote a few poems about insects. Name them.

Back 26

1. Fireflies in the Garden

2. Design (Spider and Moth)

3. Departmental (ants)

4. The Road Not Taken (Silent Spring)

Front 27

Humor

Gray Larson taught a course at Washington St.

- Far Side

- Insects appear in cartoons more often in the _________ than the ________

Back 27

winter than in the summer

Front 28

______ ______ (1647 - 1715)

- combined _______ & _______

- scientist and an ___________

- born in Germany

- Went to SA at age 52

- Painted: larvae, pupae, and adult insects with

hostplant

Back 28

Maria Merian

- art and entomology

- artist

Front 29

Insects in movies::

1. Friendly "insects" are _____

- jiminy cricket

2. people use no __________ _________

3. frequent biological errors: very large insects

cannot _________

Back 29

- humanized

- no common sense

- cannot breathe

Front 30

Greatest Insect Movie:

____________ 1954

Giant ants mutated by __________

Invades ___________ ________

Back 30

- THEM

- H-bomb

- LA sewers

Front 31

Insects as forensic indications::

1. estimate ___________ interval

2. access death scene

3. corpse transport/relocation

4. injury ____________

5. _____________

Back 31

1. postmodern

2.

3.

4. prior to death

5. drug testing

Front 32

Estimate postmodern marvel::

1. based on _________________

2. most accurate in 1st _________

3. several blow fly species involved

Back 32

1. blow fly development

2. 30 days

3.

Front 33

_____________ are the first to arrive at a corpse.

1. ________ are laid

2. ________ develop

3. development is _________ dependent

4. succession of insects is ___________

Back 33

blow flies

1. eggs

2. larvae

3. temperature

4. predictable

Front 34

basic assumptions in homicide investigation::

1. murder took place ___________

2. _______ _________ as soon as they find the body

3. predictable succession

4. weather station records valid

5. ______ _______ determines fly development

Back 34

1. at night

2. flies oviposit

3.

4.

5. air temperature

Front 35

Forensic entomologist::

1. _____________________

2. ID __________

Back 35

1. recover insect from body

2. identify the insect

Front 36

_________ _______:: large group of blow fly larvae in carrion:; maintain high temperature

Back 36

Maggot Mass

Front 37

Decomposition Studies::

1. test animal is ______________

2. environment conditions recorded

3. _____________ of insects is monitored

Back 37

1. sacrificed (pig)

2.

3. succession

Front 38

Variations: ( tried all conditions on dead pigs )

1.

2.

3.

4.

Back 38

1. body buried

2. body in water

3. body burned

4. body in building

Front 39

Where is the Body Farm located?

Back 39

University of Tennessee

Front 40

Corpse Relocation::

1. Few insects in ____________________

2. insects from body are "_________"

Back 40

1. soil beneath the body

2. "foreign"

Front 41

Forensic Entomology::

1. Drug analysis of corpse

2. _____________

3. _________

Back 41

1.

2. Insects in food

3. poaching

Front 42

_______________

class = arachnida

subclass = _________

Back 42

Ticks and MItes

subclass = acari

Front 43

Ticks and Mites

1. ______ main body parts

_________ & _________ --> no division btwn.

2. usually _____ legs

3. egg, larva, nymph, adult

4. ticks __________: mammals, birds, reptiles

5. mites are: _____________________________

Back 43

1. 2

cephalothorax and abdomen

2. 8 legs

3.

4. parasitize

5. free living, plant or animal parasites

Front 44

Lyme Disease

Described first in ___________

vector = _______________

disease agent = ____________; "__________"

15, 000 cases/year in US

most prevalent in ____________

Back 44

- connecticut

- deer tick

- bacterium; "borrelia"

- Northeast

Front 45

Lyme Disease

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

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