Lesson 6.1: Major Vertebrate Pests and Their Characteristics

Question 1

The primary species of vertebrate pests that damage our crops .

Answer 1

rats and birds

Question 2

Vertebrate Pests that are considered minor problems.

Answer 2

bats,
monkeys, deer, wild pigs, and rabbits

Question 3

Vertebrate Pests that are incredibly
destructive on major crops like rice, corn, coconut, root crops, and grains, whether in the field or
storage.

Answer 3

Rats

Question 4

Major crops that are incredibly distructive by rats.

Answer 4

rice, corn, coconut, root crops, and grains

Question 5

Major Vertebrate Pests that can reduce the rice crop yield.

Answer 5

Birds

Question 6

Are animals having spinal cord surrounded by cartilage or bone

Answer 6

Vertebrates pest

Question 7

Refers to the bone that make up the spine or backbone which runs from the
head to the tail along the dorsal side of the body and comprising the vertebral column.

Answer 7

“vertebrae”

Question 8

The core
of the vertebral column

Answer 8

endoskeleton which includes the skull that encloses and protects
the brain of the animal.

Question 9

The vertebrates pest is belong to what phylum

Answer 9

Phylum Chordata

Question 10

Vertebrates pest is belong to what kingdom?

Answer 10

Kingdom Animalia

Question 11

Phylum Chordata of the Kingdom Animalia is consist of ?

Answer 11

mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

Question 12

There are two classes of the Phylum Chordata having pest species that are
economically important in agriculture and human welfare.

Answer 12

Class Aves
Class Mammalia

Question 13

What class does birds belong?

Answer 13

Class Aves

Question 14

What class that rats, bats, monkeys, deer, wild pigs, and
rabbits belong?

Answer 14

Class mammalia

Question 15

What order does rats or rodents belong?

Answer 15

Order Rodentia

Question 16

Order rodentia is known as?

Answer 16

“gnawing
mammals.”

Question 17

known as “flying mammals” which belong to Order Chiroptera

Answer 17

Bats

Question 18

monkeys,
lemur, and apes is belong to what what order?

Answer 18

Order Primates

Question 19

The other vertebrate pests, deer and wild pigs are belong to what order?

Answer 19

Order Artiodactyla

Question 20

rabbits is belong to what order?

Answer 20

Order Lagomorpha

Question 21

Their body is covered with
feathers and they possess a beak or bill that is used for pecking, eating, feeding the young,
killing prey, grooming, and making nest.

Answer 21

Birds

Question 22

Have distinct physical features as a class.

Answer 22

Birds

Question 23

Parts of birds adapted for walking, perching, grasping, hopping, swimming, and wading.

Answer 23

Hind limbs

Question 24

Species of birds that are known to feed on rice commonly known as black-headed munia, chestnut munia, weaver bird, or “maya,” is considered
the most destructive bird pest in the Philippines.

Answer 24

Lonchura malacca

Question 25

Also found in Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia,
China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Burma, Nepal, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

Answer 25

black-headed munia

Question 26

Birds pest where has black, brown, or chestnut or dark brown color.

Answer 26

black-headed munia

Question 27

Average length of black-headed munia

Answer 27

11-12 cm

Question 28

Sex of black-headed munia where they only one sing?

Answer 28

Male

Question 29

It is a storage pest in warehouses and could replace L. malacca as a major
pest in rice fields. In fact, it is mistakenly identified as the maya bird.

Answer 29

Passer
montanus

Question 30

The common name Java sporrow

Answer 30

Padda oryzivorra