ENY 2030 Exam 3
How does the Ichneumonid wasp get past the defenses of the ants?
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The order of insects to which cockroaches belong:
Blattodea
Beetles belong to the order:
Coleoptera
Ladybugs are not true bugs. What order do they belong to?
Coleoptera
An example of pollinator specificity in insect-plant coevolution is:
Darwin's Orchid and Morgan's Sphinx Hawkmouth
The order that contains some insects that have sponging mouthparts:
Diptera
True flies belong to the order:
Diptera
The vector of human malaria isL
Female Anopheles mosquitoes
An insect that may cause accidental injury to the eyes by spraying a tear-gas like fluid is:
Florida walkingstick
Which of the following is/are important insect model organisms?
Fruit flies
Fruit flies were the first insects to ________.
Have their genome sequenced
The type of metamorphosis of the order Hemiptera is:
Hemimetaboly
The order to which bedbugs belong:
Hemiptera
To which order do the true bugs belong?
Hemiptera
Which of the following orders has piercing sucking mouthparts and contains some species that feed on blood, some that are plant feeders and some that are predacious?
Hemiptera
Insects in the order Siphonaptera have what type of metamorphosis?
Holometaboly
The type of metamorphosis of insects in the order Diptera
Holometaboly
Which insect is responsible for transmitting the most disease to and among humans?
House flies
The most important order of insects for pollination is:
Hymenoptera
The order of insects in which eusociality is most common
Hymenoptera
The order that is most valuable for pollination of crop plants:
Hymenoptera
The order to which the bees, wasps, and ants belong:
Hymenoptera
Which of the following are goals of Citizen Science?
Improved science education, to increase trust, interest, and support between scientists and non-scientists, to give non-scientists the opportunity to participate in active scientific research.
All of the following are ways in which galls protect themselves except
Jumptosafe,shadyspots
The order in which butterflies and moths belong
Lepidoptera
How likely is it that red imported fire ants (solenopsis invicta) will expand their range within the US?
Likely. Climate change and human disturbance will favor northern expansion of fire ants.
Insects that lay their eggs atop long stalks belong to the order:
Neuroptera
Lacewings and antlions belong to the order
Neuroptera
Dragonflies and damselflies belong to the order:
Odonata
The order in which each wing has a stigma and nodus:
Odonata
The order to which the sucking lice belong:
Phthiraptera
How do UV guides help flowers achieve pollination efficiency?
Pollinators that can see in the UV spectrum are guided to the pollen and nectar. Other, less effective pollinators cannot see UV guides and do not detect the resources
What is another name for Citizen Science?
Public participation in Scientific Research
The following orders include insects that are beneficial to humans as pollinators, decomposers, and predators, with the exception of:
Siphonaptera
The order in the Holometabola that contains only wingless species:
Siphonaptera
The order in the holometabola that contains only wingless species
Siphonaptera
Which is the relationship between ambrosia beetles, their ambrosia fungus and the trees they live in
The beetles feed on the fungus; the fungus feeds on the treeL the tree may die as a result of being infected by the fungus
From LUI - Alcon Blue Butterfly caterpillars trick ants to take them into their nest with:
Their smell mimicking ant larvae
Why is basic research on insects relevant to human medical research, despite the fact that insects are distantly related to humans?
They allow easy study of processes that are common to all life
What aspects of ant biology are most important in allowing ants to find and collect food resources faster than most other insects?
They can recruit many workers to food very quickly with pheromones
Why do wood boring beetles bore into wood?
They create tunnels in the wood where their young develop
How do stick insects take advantage of this relationship?
They reproduce the seed chemical signature
To which order of insects do the silverfish belong?
Thysanuea
Which of the following order belongs to the subclass Apterygota?
Thysanura
How does the bot fly get her eggs to the cow?
Via an insect vector
When in the fig wasp life cycle does pollination occur?
When the mated female wasp enters a fig synconium in flower and begins to lay eggs. She pollinates the flowers with pollen on her body from the synconium where she matured.
Which of the following questions remained unanswered at the end of this study:
Why do ants hang 4th instar larvae on the nest walls and ceiling?
A disease that is primarily a disease of other animals but is also transmissible to man is:
Zoonosis
In addition to their true legs, Lepidopteran larvae have:
abdominal prolegs with crochets
A species which has established a breeding population in an area to which it is not native and which causes environmental or economic harm, or poses a threat to human health, is known as
an invasive species
From the Scientific Article - What term do the authors use to refer to what we informally call 'velcro'?
anchor tipped larval hairs
How do ants help the stick insects' reproduction?
ants harbor the eggs in their nest
From what group of insects is the termite descended?
cockroach
Ant larvae without anchor-tipped hairs did not adhere to nest walls while those with these hairs did. This observation _____ the authors' hypothesis.
did support
Plants in which cross pollination is ensured by having unisexual flowers and all flowers on any one individual plant of the same sex are said to be:
dioecious
Invasive species are problematic because they can cause
ecological damage, threats to human and animal health, economic damage
The front wings of beetles are called:
elytra
When a disease is continuously present in an area at low levels, it is said to be:
endemic
Delusory parasitosis as an example of:
entomophobia
The term for an irrational fear of insects is:
entomophobia
When a disease is present in an area at much higher than normal levels, it is said to be:
epidemic
Which of the following characteristics contribute to the usefulness of a species as a model organism?
fast reproduction, high fecundity, easy to rise
Much of our knowledge of genetics is based on study of which important model organisms?
fruit flies
The type of front wings called "hemelytra" are:
half leathery and half membranous
Fruit flies were the first insect to __________?
have their genome sequenced
How do plant seeds entice ants to gather them
having a tasty capsule
Hypersensitivity to stings of which of the following may occasionally result in death within 10 minutes?
honey bee
Which of the following arthropods is believed to cause a significant number of cases of inhalation allergies (e.g. asthma)?
house dust mites
Which of the following are essential steps in the scientific method?
hypothesize, accept/reject hypothesis, observe
Another term for native species is _________ species
indigenous
How does the wasp capitalize on tiger beetle larvae?
it pretends to be an ant and paralyzes it
What is strange about the crab spider's camouflage?
it'stheoppositecolorofitshabitat
Bombyx mori, the silkworm, became a model organism for scientific study because
its biology was well characterized and because of the silk industry mass-rearing practices were well established
How do other wasps parasitize the gall wasps?
lay an egg in the maturing gall wasp grub at the center of the gall
An example of a group of plants that produce pollinia is:
milkweeds
Insects that are sometimes sufficiently abundant to cause significant blood loss are:
mosquitos and ticks
The term for invasion of living tissues or body cavities by fly larvae is:
myiasis
Which of the following is considered to be a floral reward for pollinators?
nectar
The literal meaning of the order name 'Neuroptera' is:
nerve-wing
The relationship between the wasp and the alcon blue is:
parasitic
The greatest economic value of honey bees is:
pollination
Plants in some families enhance the probability of cross-pollination by producing sacks of pollen called:
pollinia
the situation in which plants enhance the probability of cross pollination by having male parts of the flower mature first is called:
protandry
The situation in which plants enhance the probability of cross-pollination by having female parts of the flower mature first is called:
protogyny
Which of the following is not a primary advantage for cross pollination in plants?
results in more attractive flowers
Which of the following could cause envenomization?
saddleback caterpillar
Which of the following is considered to be a floral attractant to pollinators?
scent
What are the reason that HIV cannot be transmitted by mosquitos?
the virus does not multiply in the mosquito gut, the virus does not migrate to the mosquito's salivary glands, the mosquitos gut digests the virus
Alcon Blue caterpillars trick ants with:
their smell
Model organisms are useful study subjects because
they are well characterized biologically and/or genetically
How do gall wasps take advantage of oak trees?
theylaytheireggsinfertilizedflowers
The authors test their prediction about the function of anchor-tipped larval hairs by:
trimming the anchored tips from the hairs
How often does the orchard spider construct a new web?
twiceaday
The reservoir hosts of Lyme disease are:
white-footed mice
A disease that is primarily a disease of other animals but is also transmissible to man is a:
zoonosis
Approximately how many introduced insect species become established in Florida every year?
10
Evidence for the bees collecting pollen from flowers dates back approximately:
200 million years
Approximately what percentage of our food in the U.S. is directly or indirectly dependent on insect-pollinated plants?
30-35%
From the Scientific Article - In the ant species that the study examined, what type of individuals possess 'velcro'?
4th instar larvae
How many different oak galls are known to exist?
70
