5 - Impact of Insects

Question 1

Give 5 benefits of insects and determine whether it is direct or indirect.

Answer 1

1. produces honey, silk, wax, etc. (direct)
2. pollinators of crops (indirect)
3. natural enemies of pests (indirect)
4. nutrient recyclers (indirect)
5. food for other creatures (indirect)

Question 2

There are over _______ species of edible insects in _______ ethnic groups in _______ countries worldwide have been recorded to be part of the human diet.

Answer 2

1900, 300, 113

Question 3

The practice where insects are included as a source of nutrition.

Answer 3

entomophagy

Question 4

Give 5 insect-based exotic foods in the Philippines.

Answer 4

1. camaro (mole cricket)
2. abuos (eggs of red fire ants)
3. ulok / ulalo (larvae/pupa of coconut rhinoceros beetle)
4. tipaklong (swarming locust)
5. salagubang (June beetle)

Question 5

crude protein content of insect meal

Answer 5

42-63%

Question 6

3 species approved as feed supplement / additive in aquaculture

Answer 6

1. black soldier fly
2. housefly
3. mealworm

Question 7

the art and science of raising bees? silkworm?

Answer 7

apiculture, sericulture

Question 8

what is the GAG of dung beetle (Catharsius molossus) or queen bumble bee

Answer 8

glycosaminoglycans

Question 9

give examples of experimental insects

Answer 9

Drosophila melanogaster, apis mellifera, Bombyx mori

Question 10

insects are used as models for _________;_______in robotics science.

Answer 10

subsumption architecure

Question 11

the use of natural enemies to manage the population of insect pests and weeds

Answer 11

biological control

Question 12

2 biological control agents of insects

Answer 12

predators, parasitoids (sometimes parasites)

Question 13

give 9 more specific benefits of insects

Answer 13

1. feed for humans
2. feed for domesticated animals
3. flower pollinators
4. production of commercial and useful natural products
5. experimental animals
6. robot models
7. biological control
8. aesthetic value
9. bioindicators

Question 14

give 3 aquatic and 5 land bioindicators

Answer 14

aquatic
1) dragonflies, damselflies
2) mayflies, stoneflies
3) ocean-skaters

land
1) beetles
2) moths and butterflies
3) springtails
4) ants, bees
5) flies and mosquitoes

Question 15

What percent of insects are actually pests?

Answer 15

<1%

Question 16

give 5 more specific harmful effects of insects

Answer 16

1) annoy man
2) destruction of buildings, clothes, other materials
3) destruction crops
4) reduce quality of products and produce
5) transmission of pathogenic microorganisms

Question 17

Which species of mosquito transmit human pathogens such as malaria and dengue, and what are these pathogens called?

Answer 17

Anopheles spp. / Plasmodium falciparum

Aedes aegypti or Ae. albopictus / dengue

Question 18

Fleas vectored this bacterium that cause the bubonic plague

Answer 18

Yersina pestis

Question 18

mosquito species that vectored nematodes that cause filariasis

Answer 18

Culex quinquefasciatus