Entomology

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What Order do Scorpionflies belong too?

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Mecoptera

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What gives scorpionflies of the order mecoptera its name?

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The males have large bulb-like genitalia.

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What Order do Caddisflies belong too?

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Trichoptera

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T/F Caddisflies are aquatic insects?

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True

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What Order do Moth's and Butterflies belong too?

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Lepidoptera

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What do moth's go through metamorphosis in?

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Cocoons

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What do butterflies go through metamorphosis in?

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Obtect Pupae or Chrysalis

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What is a plants male reproductive organ called?

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Anther

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What is a plants female reproductive organ called?

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Stigma

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What is pollination between the same plant called?

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self-pollination

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What is pollination between two or more plants?

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cross-pollination

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What is the term for wind pollination?

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anemophily

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What insects were the first to pollinate?

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coleoptera or beetles

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What is pollination by insects called?

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entomophily

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"pollen packets" that adhere to the insects body?

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pollinia

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What are nectar guides?

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pigmentation arrangement near the center of the flower often vital in bee pollination.

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What is cantharophily

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pollination by beetles

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What is pollination by order diptera called?

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Myophily

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What is pollination by order Hymneoptera called?

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Melittophily

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What is pollination by butterflies called?

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Psychophily

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What is pollination by moth's called?

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Phalaenophily

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What diptera pollinates the cocao tree?

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midge's

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Period in which flower is fully open and functional?

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Anthesis

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The frequenting of flowers as in bees.

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Anthophilius

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What crop was the asian alkali bee imported for?

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Alfalfa

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What are three benefits of insect pollination?

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1)waste reduction 2)Pollination where wind is unsuitable 3) Pollination of rare plants

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Water solution rich in sugars,amino acids, proteins and lipids.

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Nectar

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Insects that degrade and recycle dead animals and plants.

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Trashburners

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insects that feed on decaying wood.

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xylophagous

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insects that feed on decaying vegetables

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phytosaprophagous

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insects that feed on dung

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scatophagous

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insects that feed on cadavers or dead animal tissue

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zoosaprophagous

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What is the scientific name of the silkworm caterpillar?

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Bombyx mori

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What part of the silkworm caterpillar makes the cocoon?

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Mandibular Spinnerets

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What is the name of early primitive beehives?

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Skeps

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What is the scientific name for the mosquito that causes malaria?

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Anopheles sp.

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What is the scientific name for the mosquito responsible for the yellow fever?

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Aedes aegypti

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What insect is responsible for African sleeping sickness?

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tsetse fly / Glossina sp.

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Venom that attacks the blood cells is termed what?

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Hemolytic

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Venom that attacks the nervous system is called what?

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Neurotoxic

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Venom that attacks the blood is called?

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Hemorrhagic

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What is the point in population density of the pest where control measures need to be applied to prevent economic injury level from being reached.

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Economic Threshold

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The level at which economic pest damage equals the costs of their control.

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Economic Injury Level

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The ability of a plant to survive pest infestations that would normally injure or kill similar plants

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Tolerance

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The ability to induce detrimental effects on the pest and thereby reduce damage by the insect.

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Antibiosis

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In plant resistance, unsuitability of a plant to a feeding insect.

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Antixenosis or Nonpreference

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Where an exotic beneficial is introduced into a new area to control a specific pest

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Introduction

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the release of laboratory reared beneficials at times when natural beneficial populations are low.

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Augment

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The release of large numbers of predators and/or parasites at critical times for short term results.

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Inundation

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Substances that mimic pheromones

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parapheromones

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chemicals that interrupt responses

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antipheromones

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a crop grown on the same acreage for at least two crop cycles.

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monoculture

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practice of regulating insect pest populations to prevent outbreaks instead of attempting to eliminate them through the use of as many control strategies as possible without injury to humans and the environment.

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Integrated Pest Management

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The ability to withstand insecticides.

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Resistance

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The manipulation of the environment to make it less favorable for pest population.

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Cultural Control

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The conversion of a pest insect into a non-pest insect.

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Genetic Control