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Stone Lab: Insect Morphology And Behavior Flashcards

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What are characteristics of Arthropoda?

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They have many jointed legs, exoskeleton, and bilateral symmetry.

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What are characteristics of hexapods?

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They have an exoskeleton, three pairs of legs, pair of antennae on head, body segments (head, thorax and abdomen), and most have two pairs of wings.

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Where do wings and legs attach in Arthropoda?

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To the insects thorax.

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How do insects impact negatively?

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They are agricultural pests, forest pests, structural pests, vectors for human and animal diseases, and ectoparasites for humans.

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How do insects impact positively?

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They are detritivores, pollinators, soil builders, and indicators of good water quality.

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What are insect sensory organs?

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Antennae, ocelli, and compound eyes. Setae can connect to sensory cells.

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What are the three main mouth parts of insects?

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Mandibles, maxilla, and Labium.

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What role do mandibles play?

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They are involved in chewing, grasping, and cutting.

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What role do maxilla play?

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They are for tasting or manipulating food.

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What role do Labium play?

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They help with food manipulation.

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What are the two types of mouth parts?

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Mandibulate are chewing mouth parts, while Haustellate are sucking mouth parts.

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What are the three types of chewing insects?

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Chewing (grasshoppers), chewing-lapping (honey bee), and chewing-filter feeder (mosquitoes).

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What are the two types of Haustellate insects?

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Piercing-sucking (mosquito, horse fly, flea) and non-piercing (some flies, butterflies and moths).

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How have Diptera mouth parts been modified?

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They have a long labrum and loss of mandibles and maxilla.

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How have Lepidoptera mouth parts been modified?

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They have lost mandibles and labium. They have modified maxillae.

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What are the parts of an insect’s leg?

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Trochantin, coxa , trochanter, femur, tibia, tarsus and tarsal claws.

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What term describes legs modified for jumping?

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Saltatorial

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What terms describes legs modified for climbing or clinging?

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Scansorial

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What term describes legs modified for swimming?

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Natatorial

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What term describes legs modified for running?

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Cursorial

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What term describes legs modified for grasping?

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Raptorial

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What term describes legs modified for digging or burrowing?

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Fossorial

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What are the three sections of an insect’s digestive system?

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Foregut, mid-gut, and hind gut

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What structures form an insect’s foregut?

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Pharynx, esophagus, crop, and proventriculus.

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What is the function of the crop?

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The crop is predigestion storage for food.

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What is the function of the proventriculus?

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It acts to break down food like a gizzard.

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What functions occur in the mid-gut?

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Digestion and nutrient absorption.

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What is the function of the Caeca?

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The caeca increase surface area for food absorption.

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What functions occur in the hind gut?

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Water and salt reabsorption and nitrogen compound excretion.

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What structures act as an insect’s heart and aorta?

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Dorsal vessels

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How does hemolymph circulate in an insect?

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Dorsal to ventral, then ventral to dorsal.

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What are properties of hemolymph?

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Transport and storage of sugars, amino acids and water, hydraulic pressure, wound healing and internal defense.

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What structures make up an insect’s excretory system?

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Malphighian tubules, rectum and colon.

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What is the function of malphighian tubules?

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They remove nitrogen waste and maintain salt and water balance.

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What are the tracheal system components?

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Spiracles, trachea, air sacs and tracheoles.

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What are spiracles?

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Small openings (pores) along the insect’s abdomen that facilitate gas exchange.

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What are taenidia?

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They are spiral thickenings that prevent tracheal system collapse.

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How do insects breath?

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Oxygen is delivered through trachea. Breathing is through incidental body movement or opening/closing of spiracles.

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How do insects exhale?

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They release carbon dioxide through the tracheal system and cuticle.

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What are the two types of respiration of aquatic insects?

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They have gaseous respiration (oxygen enters tracheal system as a gas) and aqueous respiration (oxygen enters tracheal system in solution).

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What methods do aquatic insects use for gaseous respiration?

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Tubes are a direct link to the atmosphere, bubbles act like temporary gills that need nitrogen replenishment, and plastrons are permanent physical gills.

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Although plants have poor nitrogen nutritional value compared to animals, what parts of plants can be consumed?

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Leaves, twigs, bark, wood (borers), and roots.

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What are the three basic categories of insect plant feeding?

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Parasitic (sap or small amounts of tissue), grazing (large amounts of tissue), and predatory (insect kills plant).

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What are the three feeding types for plant feeding insects?

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Piercing-sucking (sap from phloem or xylem), rasping-sucking (scrape surface or interior of plant), and chewing (bite off large pieces of plant tissue).

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What are the three types of external insect plant feeders?

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Exoparasites, grazers, and seed predators.

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What are four types of internal insect plant feeders?

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Endoparasites (gall makers), miners (form tunnels between the upper and lower epidermis), borers (tunnel within and feed on tissues) and seed predators.

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Define polyphagy

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Insects that eat many kinds of plants

48
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Define Oligophagy

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Insects that eat species from the same family or genus

49
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Define monophagy

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Insects that eat only a specific species

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What are advantages of oligophagy and monophagy?

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Insects can easily detect food species, they have specific detoxification systems (to overcome plant defenses), and they efficiently use the plant.

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What are advantages of Polyphagy?

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They have more food options, they search less for food, and they resist extinction better because they are not food species specific.

52
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What are some orders that participate in pollination?

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Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, and Coleoptera

53
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What benefits do plants receive from pollination?

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Dioecious plants need a pollinator because separate male and female plants and insects transfer pollen between plants.

54
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What benefits do insects receive from plants?

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Plant provides nectar (sugar) and excess pollen

55
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What are some plant traits that facilitate pollination?

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Nectar, sticky pollen, and synamones (fragrance)

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How do plants use color to facilitate pollination?

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Plants use color on carpels, stamens, petals, sepals and leaves to attract pollinators and direct them to the proper structures.

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What name is given to the pollen packet of some plants?

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Pollinia (it is sticky or contains attachment devices).

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What plant structure can serve as nectar guides?

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Petal shape or coloration (including UV patterns)

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What are some physical structures of plants that facilitate pollination?

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Landing platforms, trips to release pollen, traps, and some structures for specific pollinators.

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What structures are modified on insects to facilitate pollination?

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Leg traps and crops

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Define polylexy

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Insect pollinates many different species of plants

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Define oligiolexy

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Insect pollinates plants within a family of plants

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Define monocle you

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Insect pollinates a specific species

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What is the difference between nectar thieves and nectar robbers?

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Nectar thieves obtain nectar without holes in the flowers, whereas nectar robbers create a hole in the flower to access nectar.

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What are some methods by which a plant attracts an insect by “false advertising?”

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The odors of excrement or carrion and decoy flowers (shape, appearance or fragrance)

66
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What is myrmecochory?

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Method of seed dispersal by ants whereby the ant brings the seed back to its colony. The ant consumes the elaiosomes, and the seed itself is buried.

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What is a myrmecophyte?

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A plant with a close relationship to ants.

68
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Define phytotelmata

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Water bodies held by terrestrial plants

69
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What are examples of social insects?

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Ants, some bees, some wasps, and all termites.

70
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What are examples of parental care or lack of care?

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Walking sticks just drop their eggs randomly, some true bugs provide protection for eggs or larvae, and some insects provide a good nest or food source for larvae.

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According to Michener-Wilson, what is a communal insect?

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An insect that aggregates (shares nest but does own work)

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According to Michener-Wilson, what is a quasisocial insect?

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An insect with both adult aggregation and parent/offspring aggregation.

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According to Michener-Wilson, what is a semisocial insect?

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An insect that not only aggregates, but has a reproductive division of labor (dominance interactions).

74
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According to Michener-Wilson, what is a eusocial insect?

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An insect with overlapping generations and cooperative brood care.

75
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What are characteristics of primitive eusocial colonies?

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The queen is larger (10%), dominance interactions occur, and the males demonstrate individual recognition.

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What are characteristics of advanced eusocial colonies?

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Usually no physical dominance after the queen is established, the workers are sterile females (no wings) and the males are sperm donors (winged).

77
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Describe the reproductive role of the queen.

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The virgin queen mates to become a fertilized queen. She stores sperm for the remainder of her lifetime (spermatheca). She determines the sex of her colony with fertilized females and underutilized males.

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What is the social structure of advanced eusocial colonies?

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The queen, the minor workers, the soldiers/major workers, and the males.

79
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How do colonies exhibit self-organization?

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The workers are “hard wired” for behavior to accomplish necessary tasks.

80
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Why is self-organization an admirable trait?

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Insects have existed for over 50 million years, they move more earth than earthworms, 75% of plants rely on social insects for pollination, 50% of woodland flower seeds are planted by ants, and honey bees support a $15 billion industry.

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What is temporary social parasitism?

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The parasite queen enters the host colony, accepts host workers through aggression or conciliation, and kills the host queen. This results in a temporary mixed colony.

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What is piracy social parasitism?

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The parasitic queen steals workers from another species and brings them back to maintain the parasite’s colony.

83
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What is facultative piracy?

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The queen brings workers from another species to supplement her colony’s caste system.

84
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What is obligate piracy?

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The host brood works for the parasitic queen.

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What is inquilinism?

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It is an extreme form of piracy whereby the queen brings back workers from another species because her own lacks a worker caste.

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