Practical test

Question 1

What order is Apidae (Bumblebee) ?

Answer 1

Hymenoptera

Question 2

What order is Aphidoidea (Aphids, greenfly, black fly)

Answer 2

Hemiptera

Question 3

What diagnostic features do aphidoidea have? (Aphids, Greenfly)

Answer 3

Sucking mouth parts

Single soft body segment

Question 4

How mobile are aphidoidea? (Aphids, Greenfly)

Answer 4

Some life stages fly

Some life stages very immobile

Question 5

What crop systems do you find Aphidoidea in? (Aphids, greenfly)

Answer 5

Common pests in many cropping systems

Question 6

What do Aphidoidea eat?

Answer 6

Sap (sap suckers)

Question 7

How do you control Aphidoidea? (Aphids, greenfly)

Answer 7

Chemical control

Natural predation

Resistant crops

Question 8

What order are spiders? (Lycosidae)

Answer 8

Araneae

Question 9

What order to parasitoid wasps belong to?

Answer 9

Hymenoptera

Question 10

Diagnostic features of spiders?

Answer 10

8 legs

2 body segments

Question 11

What do spiders eat?

Answer 11

Small invertebrates

Flying insects

Question 12

Mobility of spiders

Answer 12

Mobile but can’t fly

Question 13

What crop systems can you find spiders in?

Answer 13

Common in all open cropping systems

Question 14

What management techniques can you use to get more spiders?

Answer 14

Local semi natural landscape increases numbers

Spill over from boundaries

Question 15

What order are hoverflys (Syrphidae)

Answer 15

DIPTERA

Question 16

Diet of hoverflys?

Answer 16

Adults feed on nectar

Larvae feed on small insects

Question 17

How far do hoverflys travel?

Answer 17

Up to 500m

Question 18

Crop systems you can find hoverflys in?

Answer 18

Common in many open cropping systems

Question 19

What habitats to adult hoverflys need?

Answer 19

Flowery field margins

Question 20

What order are butterflies and moths in?

Answer 20

Lepidoptera

Question 21

What features do adult butterflies and moths have? (3)

Answer 21

Large scale wings
Long antenna
Sucking mouths

Question 22

How many abdominal prolegs do caterpillars have?

Answer 22

2-8

Question 23

Diet of adult butterflies and moths

Answer 23

Nectar

Question 24

What are butterflies in cropping systems?

Answer 24

Common pest in many cropping systems

Question 25

Diagnostic features of Apidae (bumblebee)?

Answer 25

large hairy body, defined

waist, 4 wings

Question 26

Mobility of bumblebee?

Answer 26

very mobile (500-2km)

Question 27

What management is needed for bumblebees

Answer 27

nesting material

floral margins

Question 28

What order is Family: Staphylinidae (Rove beetle)?

Answer 28

Coleoptera

Question 29

Diagnostic features Staphylinidae (Rove beetle)

Answer 29

2 pairs of wings,
elytra, Exposed abdominal segments,
biting mouth parts

Question 30

Diet of Staphylinidae (Rove beetle)?

Answer 30

diverse omnivores diet, eats slugs

and small invertebrates

Question 31

Mobility of Staphylinidae (Rove beetle)?

Answer 31

Ground active, poor flyers

Question 32

Definition of a nematode

Answer 32

Unsegmented worms that have a tough outer cuticle

Question 33

Where can nematodes be found?

Answer 33

Throughout the globe from deserts to the Antarctic

Question 34

What mouth part does a beetle have?

Answer 34

Biting mouthparts

Question 35

Weevil is a type of beetle. what mouth parts do they have?

Answer 35

Biting mouthparts

Question 36

How can money spiders travel longer distances?

Answer 36

Drift through the air on their web silk

Question 37

Name 4 insect mouth pieces

Answer 37

Chewing, piercing-sucking, siphoning, sponging

Question 38

Latin name for septoria tritici blotch

Answer 38

Zymoseptoria tritici