Insects and Mites

Question 1

Describe 5 types of insect pests:

Answer 1

Leaf-chewing insects, sucking insects and mites, gall forming insects and mites, root-feeding insects, shoot stem branch and trunk borers

Question 2

Identify the 2 major insect life cycles:

Answer 2

Complete metamorphosis

Incomplete metamorphosis

Question 3

List 7 insect management strategies

Answer 3

no action, genetic, cultural, sanitation, physical/mechanical, biological, pesticides

Question 4

Define Arthropod:

Answer 4

Invertebrate animal characterized by a jointed body limbs and usually a hard body covering that is molted at intervals. Insects, Mites, and Crayfish

Question 5

Define Borers

Answer 5

Insects that feed inside the trunk, branches, or roots of plants

Question 6

Define Gall

Answer 6

Abnormal growth of leaf, stem, or twig tissue caused by the presence of a gall-making organism

Question 7

Define Insects

Answer 7

arthropods with a body divided into three parts, with three pairs of legs and usually with four wings

Question 8

Define Complete Metamorphosis

Answer 8

Insect life cycle with four stages; egg, larva, pupa, adult. The larvae generally look very different than adults

Question 9

Define Incomplete Metamorphosis

Answer 9

Insect life cycle with three stages; egg, nymph, adult. Nymphs look similar to adults

Question 10

Define Parasitoids

Answer 10

insects that lay their eggs on or in the bodies of their hosts. The larvae that hatch slowly consume the host until it is killed

Question 11

Define Pollinators

Answer 11

Insects that carry pollen from one flower to another

Question 12

Define Predators

Answer 12

Insects that capture and devour prey