Chapter 9 Flashcards
What are the outside skeletons that insects have?
Exoskeletons
What is the type of circulation in which blood flow is not restricted to blood vessels?
Open system of circulation
Who is known as the world’s greatest entomologist?
Jean Henri Fabre
What are the only invertebrates that can fly?
Insects
What is the process through which insects hatch from eggs as larva, then continue as pupa, and end as adults?
Complete metamorphosis
What is an eye with multiple lenses that enable it to see in several directions at once?
Compound eyes
What is the upper lip of an insect?
Labrum
What is the lower lip of an insect?
Labium
What are the paired side-to-side jaws of an insect?
Mandibles
What are the intake and outflow openings for insects to breathe?
Spiracles
What is the largest order of insects?
Coleoptera
What is the name of the weevil’s snout that gave it the nickname “snout beetle”?
Rostrum
What order is made of true bugs?
Hemiptera
What order contains insects with wings that are the same size, shape, and form?
Homoptera
What order contains mosquitoes and flies?
Dipterans
What order contains grasshoppers and crickets?
Orthoptera
What order, which contains dragonflies and damselflies, gets its name from the sharp, tooth-like projections on the chewing mouthparts of these insects?
Odonata
What order has wings that appear to be stretched over a pattern of veins?
Neuroptera
What larvae make insect traps in sandy areas protected from the rain?
Antlion larvae
What are insects that live in large colonies called?
Social insects
What is the primary function of the queen bee?
To lay eggs
What is the term for the male honeybees?
Drones
What type of bee does all of the work in the honeybee colony?
Worker bees
What are some of the largest common bees?
Bumblebees
What are the group of wasps that do not live in organized groups?
Solitary wasps
What solitary wasp uses mud to construct cells that look like tiny pots or urns?
Potter wasp
What is one of the most highly organized social insects?
Ant
What are specialized worker ants equipped with large mandibles used for fighting for the colony?
Soldier ants
What are the ants that have a relationship with aphids to “milk” them for food?
Dairy ants
What is a close relationship between two organisms in which both benefit?
Mutualism
What order is the second largest insect order and includes butterflies and moths?
Lepidoptera
What is a butterfly or moth larva?
Caterpillar
What are the silk-spinning organs on caterpillars?
Spinnerets
What is the long sucking organ?
Proboscis
What is the largest family of butterflies?
Brush-footed butterflies
What family of butterflies was named for the distinctive extensions found on their hind wings?
Swallowtails
What is the larval form of the Isabella tiger moth?
Banded Woolly Bear
What order contains earwigs?
Dermaptera
What order contains termites?
Isoptera
What order contains silverfish?
Thysanura
