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22 Cards in this Set
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Allomones
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Benefits the sender, e.g. defense.
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Kairomones
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Benefits the receiver
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Pheromones
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a semiochemical that delivers a message from one to another of the same species.
Alarm (aphids flea when one is attacked), trail, aggregation, sex, oviposition deterrent, aphrodisiac pheromones |
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What is a doodlebug?
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They bury themselves at the bottom of a pit of sand, then feed on what falls into pit
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What is in the order theraptera?
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Lice
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True bugs:
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Order hemiptera, piercing and sucking (usually plant), incomplete metamorphosis
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what are sucking lice normally found on?
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mammals
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what are chewing lice normally found on?
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birds
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Flees: metamorphosis, what they eat
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complete metamorphosis, adult flees feed on blood, immatures feed on nesting. Can stay in pupae stage for up to 10 years
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Cockroaches
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Incomplete metamorphosis, thigmotactic, omnivores
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How insects make sounds
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Blowing air through spiracles, vibrating membrane
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Tympanum
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Ears
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How do you perceive a gustory signal?
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Taste. Insects taste through antennae, palpi
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How do you perceive an olphactory signal?
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Smell. Insects smell through antennae
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crypsis
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blending in, camoflauge
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What types of wings do beetles have?
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hardened
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Incomplete metamorphosis:
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Grasshopper, cockroaches, ladybugs, dragonflies, termites
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Complete metamorphosis
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Butterflies, moths, fleas, ants, bees, wasps, doodlebugs
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No metamorphosis
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Silverfish and bristletails
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How many tagma do spiders have?
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2
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How do praying mantids lay eggs?
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oothecum
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What do mites feed on?
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Eyebrow glands, plants
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