Clicker questions exam 3

Question 1

Bees are the only insects that pollinate T or F?

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The biggest threat to plants caused by sap-sucking insects is the amount of fluid they remove from the plant T or F?

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Which of the following are types of herbivory found in insects?
Leaf chewing
Leaf mining
Boring
Galling
All of the above

Answer 3

All of the above

Question 4

Which of the following were problems that had to be overcome by the first insects trying to feed on plants?
Holding on to slippery leaves
Increased exposure to predators
Abundant but nutritionally poor and tough to digest food source
all of the above

Answer 4

All of the above

Question 5

Phytophagy is what?

Answer 5

Plant feeding

Question 6

Queen ants use aggression to control workers and keep them from laying eggs T or F?

Answer 6

False

Question 7

Polyphagous insects feed on what?

Answer 7

Lots of different, unrelated plant species

Question 8

Who or what determines the caste that a larva will develop into a honey bee hive?

Answer 8

Diet

Question 9

Honey bees and termite queens use pheromones to maintain control of the workers in the colony T or F?

Answer 9

True

Question 10

The job of the oldest members of the honey be hive is to do what?

Answer 10

Forage for pollen and nectar

Question 11

When a parasitoid developing inside its host is parasitized by another species of parasitoid this is called what?

Answer 11

Hyperparasitism

Question 12

Hymenoptera with short ovipositors tend to target concealed hosts T or F?

Answer 12

False

Question 13

If I was traveling in the tropics in areas known to have human bot flies I would…
A. Never go outside - ever
B. Would not change my behavior other than wearing mosquito repellant and proper clothing
C. Happily get infected by a bot and take care of it until it emerged - all for the story
D. Bot flies (and other things like this) are why I will never leave the country!

Answer 13

B

Question 14

Which of the following are common features of ectoparasitic insects?
A. Flattened bodies
B. Piercing or cutting mouthparts
C. Modified rows of setae known as ctenidia
D. Reduction or loss of wing
E. All of the above

Answer 14

E.

Question 15

The ability to avoid detection is called what?

Answer 15

Crypsis

Question 16

One species of insect stealing food from another is called what?

Answer 16

Cleptoparasitism

Question 17

When one organism uses a second more mobile organism for transportation to a suitable food source or habitat this is called?

Answer 17

Phoresy

Question 18

What are 3 defensive strategies used by insects if discovered by a predator?

Answer 18

Chemical defenses
Flashes of color to distract predator
Startle display

Question 19

Bumble bee colonies have an annual life cycle T or F?

Answer 19

True

Question 20

What type of mimicry system has an unpalatable or dangerous model and edible or harmless mimic?

Answer 20

Batesian

Question 21

What is a “1st responder” to a dead vertebrate?

Answer 21

Blow Flies

Question 22

What order of insects are the primary decomposer of dead vertebrates?

Answer 22

Diptera

Question 23

Why do some wood-feeding beetles carry fungus with them and infect trees with it?

Answer 23

The fungus breaks down the wood and makes it more nutritious
The fungus helps stop the tree defenses
So the insect can eat the nutritious fungus

Question 24

Detrivores feed on what?

Answer 24

Dead and decaying organic matter

Question 25

A predator is…

Answer 25

An organism that kills and consumes organisms during brief encounters

Question 26

What is 1 sit and wait predator strategy?

Answer 26

Ambush

Question 27

Non-random active foragers might cue in on what when trying to locate their prey?

Answer 27

Mating calls

Question 28

A parasitoid that paralyzes and halts the host’s development so that its young can feed is a what?

Answer 28

Idiobiont

Question 29

After importing cattle to Australia, why did. they have such a massive problem with dung?

Answer 29

Australian dung beetles are specialists on marsupial dung so wouldn’t touch the cattle dung

Question 30

What is the difference between parasites and parasitoids?

Answer 30

Parasites don’t kill the host parasitoids do.

Question 31

Describe predatory morphology

Answer 31

Large forward facing eyes
raptorial and grasping legs
modified mouthparts and 80% extra oral digestion

Question 32

What is it called when parasitoids place egg on the outside of host?

Answer 32

Pseudoovipositor

Question 33

What is a parasitoid that feeds and develops on the outside of the host?

Answer 33

Ectoparasitoid

Question 34

What is a parasitoid that feeds and develops on the inside of the host?

Answer 34

Endoparasitoid

Question 35

A parasitoid that allows the host to fully develop before its consumed is what?

Answer 35

Koinobiont

Question 36

How do endoparasitoids respire and what is the term called?

Answer 36

Cutaneous. Aquatic like environment. Thin cuticle with proliferation or trachea underneath cuticle