ENY 2030 Exam 3

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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


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