Invertebrates

Question 1

Sociality

Answer 1

2% insects, 90% biomass, females give up reproduction and workers have shorter lives

Question 2

Bees

Answer 2

Probably developed from wasps when angiosperms, feed young with pollen where wasps feed w animal protein, branched hairs to carry pollen, grooming behaviour

Question 3

Bee cleptoparasites

Answer 3

Lost pollen carrying areas, kill young to lay their own

Question 4

Buzz pollination

Answer 4

Shaking of wings or head, for Solenaceae like tomatos

Question 5

Short tongued bees

Answer 5

Colletidae, Stenotritidae, Halictidae, dominant in Aus bc Myrtaceae, one with long tongue but is mop like

Question 6

Long tongues bees

Answer 6

Apidae and Megachilidae, straw like tongues

Question 7

Persoonia Flowers

Answer 7

Fed on by short tongues beed, one with a battering ram head to push open petals, one with elongated head hairs put between petals

Question 8

Suborder Ensifera

Answer 8

Crickets, long fine antennae

Question 9

Suborder Caelifera

Answer 9

Grasshoppers

Question 10

Hemimetabolous

Answer 10

Gradual transition

Question 11

Holometabolous

Answer 11

Distinct phases

Question 12

Family Morabidae

Answer 12

Matchstick grassshoppers, back of head has indentation, wingless

Question 13

Warramaba virgo

Answer 13

Parthenogenic, but found to be hybrid, with 4 sexual genera found

Question 14

Family Tetrigidae

Answer 14

Primitive, water associated grasshoppers

Question 15

Family Pyrgomorphidae

Answer 15

Large, colourful grasshoppers, with fastigium (head top) groove

Question 16

Family Acrididae

Answer 16

Largest grasshopper family

Question 17

Subfamily Oxyinae

Answer 17

Within Acrididae, 30 mya arrival

Question 18

Subfamily Canantopinae

Answer 18

Within Acrididae, Gondwanan

Question 19

Subfamily Acrininae

Answer 19

Within Acrididae, 30 mya arrival

Question 20

Locust

Answer 20

Grasshopper phase transition that causes large numbers to change in morphplogy and behavioys