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32 Cards in this Set
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Why are insects used as forensic indicators?
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estimate post mortem interval
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Who combined art and entomology and when was her birth and death?
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Maria Merian 1647-1715
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What is the subclass of ticks and mites?
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Acari
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What disease is most prevalent in Northeast and was first described in CT?
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Lyme Disease
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What is the vector of Lyme Disease?
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Deer ticks
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What is the disease agent and name of Lyme Disease
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Bacterium Borrelia
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What is it called when spiders zigzag cross strands in their web to warn birds so that they don't fly into them?
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Stabilimentum
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Which spider has a red hour glass shape on its abdomen, whose venom is a neurotoxin and causes muscles to cramp?
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Black Widow
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Describe a black widow spider bide:
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intense pain, peaks at 30 mins, nausea and profuse sweating, slurred speech, body may go rigid, maybe diagnosed as appendicitis, venom is 30x more toxic than a rattlesnake
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Which spider has a 'violin' on its cephalothroax?
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brown recluse
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What does the venom of a brown recluse cause?
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skin necrosis
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When and where was the first silk production?
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China 2640 BC
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Silk is a ...
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protein
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Who cloned the spider silk gene?
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Randy Lewis-University of Wyoming
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In what order does the female select the sex of its young?
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Hymenoptera
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What is the most beneficial order?
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Hymenoptera
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Ants, bees, and wasps are in the order?
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Hymenoptera (wings are together, beast as one pair)
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What wasp lays eggs on a living host?
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Jeweled wasp/Hunting wasp
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The sting of which kind of wasp is extremely painful?
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velvet ant/solitary adult female, wingless
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The ____ wasp digs burrows, catches many prey items, lays eggs in next and remembers net location
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sand
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The Mud Dauber wasp puts _____ in nest cells.
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Live spiders, one egg per cell
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Who from USDA in Tifton, GA tried to teach wasps to find specific crops?
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Joe Lewis
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How long is drone (unfertilized egg) sperm viable for?
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5 years
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A bee sting contains what that will cause cells to 'burst'?
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Melitin, protein
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Pollen is transferred from..
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Anthers (male) to stigma (female)
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Which flower is shaped like what type of female wasp?
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hammer orchid-solitary wasp
-flower scent=female wasp pheromones -male wasp tries to mate with flower -hinged flower wings mate into pollen -mate wasp pollinates next orchid |
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What is the self destructive behavior performed for the benefit of others?
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Altruism
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Species of social wasps in Georgia:
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Yellow Jackets-2, hornets-2, paper wasp-5
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The paper wasp nest is composed from:
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paper (plant fiber) and glue (saliva)
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Wasp nest defense include:
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applying a chemical of fatty acids to the base of the nest which repels ants (and kills them) along with the alarm pheromones defense.
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Caterpillars and ants have a ______ relationship
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symbiotic
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symbiotic relationship between cecropia and aztec ants.
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aztec ants protect cecropia, cecropia provides sugar packets for AA (arrae, AA lives in C stems)
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