Types Of Feeders

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What are the 4 types of feeders, and what do they eat?

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1.Detritivores (decaying,organic material) dung/carrion
2.Herbivores (veggies)
3.Fungivores (fungi)
4.Carnivore

Front 2

What are mycangia/myotomes?

Back 2

pouches to keep spores in

Front 3

Ambrosia beetles or lymexylonids do what to wood?

Back 3

Innoculate wood with fungi, spreads american/dutch elm disease.

Front 4

Half of all insects are what type of feeder?

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Herbivorous

Front 5

What is MFO?

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Mixed function oxidizers. Cleansed through fatbody

Front 6

What does polyphagus/oligophagus and monophagus mean?

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Many foods/several species within genus and only 1 host.

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What are the 5 types of "eating" insects?

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1.chewing
2.sucking(transmit viri/feed on phloem)
3.miners and borers (eat wood/cambium)
4.seed predators(bruchid beetles)
5.Galls (hide in host and form a tumor on plant.

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Carnivores are also known as?

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Predators

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What are 5 attributes to carnivores and an example of each?

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1.Agility and speed (odanodata, wasps and robberflies)
2.Stealth (mantids/dragonfly nymphs)
3.Trappers/filter feeders (anything that spears)
4.Gasers(berothids [lacewings])
5.mommies/children (wasps supplying food)

Front 10

What is a geometrid?

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Inchworm

Front 11

What is the difference between a parasite and a parasitoid?

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Parasites feed on host, parasitoids eventually kill host.

Front 12

Give an example of parasatoid behaviour.

Back 12

Tachinida (hairy flies) lays eggs on leaf, catapiller eats then is consumed by larvae.

Front 13

Are most wasps parasitic?

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Yes

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What is phoresy?

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process of being transported without feeding on host. Hitchhikers.

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What does the term hyperparasitism mean?

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a parasite feeding on a specific parasite.