Ch 10 Flashcards
What are the five common characteristics of arthropods?
exoskeletons
Jointed legs
segmented bodies in distinct body regions
They shed their exoskeleton called molting
They have an open system of circulation with or without a heart
Name one of Fabre’s contributions to the study of insects
He observed facts and therefore did not agree with Darwin
He discovered the importance of instinct in insects and described how these creatures behave together
What is the term for a zoologist to studies in sec
Entomologist
List the three distinct body regions of an insect
Head thorax and abdomen
List the four stages of complete metamorphosis
Egg
Larva
pupa
adult
What is an immature form of an insect that resembles the adult but has different body proportions and like
Nymph
How does an arthropod’s open system of circulation compare to the closed circulatory system found in other animals and people?
Yellow/green/clear blood
Heart pumps blood into a large artery, bathing organs in blood. Blood goes directly back to the heart w/o veins.
What is the main difference between a simple and a compound eye
A simple Eye has only one lens; a compound Eye has multiple lenses
What are in insect sensory
Send ills
Name the upper lip of an insect
Labrum
What is the term for an insects side to side Joss
Mandibles
Define abdomen as it pertains to an insect
The hindmost part of an insect’s body
How may an insects thorax be distinguished from its abdomen?
The easiest way to distinguish between the thorax and abdomen is to notice the attachment of the legs. The legs attach only to the thorax; the abdomen begins after the last pair of legs.
What is the sharp pointed Oregon the females of some species of insects used to dig into the ground to lay eggs?
Ovipositor
List of the five classes of arthropods
Insects crustaceans arachnids Centipedes millipedes
Name the largest order of insects
Beetles
What is the term for the hard for wings that fit closely over a Beetle body like a shell?
Elytra
Name thesnout beetle known for attacking the cotton plant
The Boll weevil
Which Beetle has two sets of eyes one side above the water and another set below?
The Whirligig beetle.
Which beetle stores air beneath it’s forewings?
Diving beetle
What is a bug?
And insect with a special type of piercing sucking mouth parts
What insect lives underground for 13 or 17 years before emerging as an adult?
Cicada
What is the term for the sharp lance like structures a mosquito uses to puncture the skin of an animal or a person?
Stylets
Name three diseases carried by mosquitoes
Yellow fever
malaria
Virus causing Encephalitis
Which insect me carry the microbes responsible for dysentery and typhoid fever
Housefly
How can a crane fly be distinguished from
It is three times as big and does not bite.
Which flies may be the worst pass around a pond?
Black flies or Buffalo gnats
Which order do crickets, grasshoppers, Katiedid, locusts, mantises, and cockroaches belong?
Orthoptera
What name are short one grasshoppers now
Locusts
What is the term for the musical instrument of grasshoppers, crickets and katydids?
Stridulatory organs
What order includes dragonflies and damselflies?
Odonata
Give two ways in which dragonflies and damselflies differ
Damselfly Eyes are farther apart and they hold their wings upward and backward
Name to carnivorous insects belonging to the order Neuroptera
Ant lion
Lacewing
Listen explain three characteristics of cockroaches that allow them to survive in almost any environment
It cleans and grooms to protect the waterproof coating on its exoskeleton
They are omnivores and eat almost anything
They are nocturnal and hide during the day
Which insect order contains the most common social insects?
Hymenoptera
What is the defense mechanism that a worker bee carries?
Stinger
List the three types of social wasps.
Paper wasps
hornets
yellow jackets
What happens to the young queens of both bumblebee and social wasp colonies in the winter?
They hibernate.
Which solitary wasp it builds cells that look like tiny pots or urns?
The potter wasp
Name the type of insect whose colonies may have several queens.
Ant
What are the specialized worker ants equipped with large mandibles that may be used in fighting for the colony?
Soldier ants
Which kind of dairy aunt tends herds of corn root aphids in order to obtain honey dew from them?
Cornfield ant
Define mutualism
A close relationship between two organisms in which both organisms benefit. Like in the cornfield ant and aphids
Which aunts traveling long trains?
Army ants
How are honeybee and bumble bee colonies alike and how do they differ?
They both have workers, drones, and one queen.
Honeybee colonies can last many years but bumblebee colonies only last one year. The queen survives to the winter to start a new colony each year. The bumblebee queen starts a colony in the ground in a dugout a hole where she lays a few eggs in the start the colony from there. A honeybee usually start a hive somewhere above ground.
Why are the deepest chambers of an ant home, rather than some of the chambers closer to the surface, used as living quarters in the winter?
They are less prone to freezing than rooms closer to the surface.
What does the name of the order Lepidoptera mean?
Scale wings
What is the hard protective case in which most butterfly spend the people stage called?
Cocoon
Name the tubular sucking Oregon with which an adult butterfly am off drinks nectar from flowers.
Proboscis
Which family butterflies is the largest?
Brush footed butterflies
What are the tiny blue butterflies who’s larva releases sweet fluid when touched by?
Spring Azores
What is the name of the largest moth?
The atlas moth.
Which month has green wings with long slightly twisted tails?
Luna moth
Of what month is the banded woolly bear the larval form?
Isabella tiger moth
What month has distinctive dark pink kind wings with bright blue eye spots?
Twin spotted sphinx moth
Name the long flat insects that make up the order Dermoptera
Earwigs
Which shiny insect often choose up books including two obtain start?
Silverfish or bookworm
Explain how the Yucca moth and the Yucca plant demonstrate mutualism.
The Yucca my pollinates the Yucca plant and the larva live on the Yucca plants so each survives from the other.
Why are hawkmoths sometimes mistaken for hummingbirds?
They beat their wings and hover very fast at a plant while they suck nectar.
Why are termites not classified in hymenoptera with most other social insects?
They do not go through complete metamorphosis they go through incomplete metamorphosis.
Wire InTEXT important to flowers?
Pollination
Which Beatles very dead animals?
Carrion beetles
Why did man’s original relationship with Insects change?
Adamant eve send led to the cursed which changed many beneficial bugs into pests
Name one of the most important jobs of the entomologist
To find a way to control insects population
Define crop rotation
Planting a field with one crop during when you’re in a different crop the next year used to discourage the growth of insect pests
Name the three main helpful functions of insects.
Pollination
Scavengers cleaning and recycling decaying animals or poo
Food for other organisms
Which class of arthropods is made up of animals a very hard crusty exoskeletons?
Crustacean
How many distinct body regions does a crustacean have
Two
Define cephalothorax, chela, and carapace
Combined head and thorax
Claw
Shell
How many pairs of antenna does a crustacean have?
Two sets
Name the organs with which most crustaceans breathe
Gills
To which group of crustaceans do many of the most from of edible arthropods belong?
Decapods
Which appendages are specially designed to hold food as a decapod chews?
Maxillipeds
Name the legs of a decapod that are taped with chelae used for protection and for seizing pray
Chelipeds
What is the term for the appendages on the underside of the abdomen that assist a decapod in swimming?
Swimmerets
In which group of crustaceans to the first four pairs of legs point forward and the last three pairs point backward?
Amphipods
Which branchiopod lives in extremely salty water?
Brine shrimp
Which group of crustaceans are bioluminescent?
Krill
In what way does melting in crustaceans differ from melting and insects?
Crustaceans keep growing so they need to keep molting Insects molt only until they are full-size then they stop.
Although crayfish breathe with gills they can migrate from one stream lake to another. What enables the crayfish to make this change in location?
Their gills can remain moist underneath the carapace for a while
