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Hyperparasitoids

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parasitoids of parasitoids!

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Idiobionts

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paralyze prey

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kionobionts

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ALLOW host to continue to mature and grow

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Benefits of ectoparasites

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Easy dispersal, Safe from Immune system

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Downsides to ectoparasites

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Vulnerable to natural enemies, exposed to environment, Harder time feeding

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Upsides to Endoparasites

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More often protected form natural predators, protected from external environment, easier feeding

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downsides to Endoparasites

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Harder dispersal, More susceptible to host’s immune system

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Challenges to water living

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Acquiring O2, Water density (for 02) water temp, depth, water body type

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Lotic Env.

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Running water

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Lentic

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Stagnant water

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Water breathing adaptations

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Arthrodial membrane, gills, siphon (all adults have trachae)

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oligopneustic

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1-2 spiracles

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spiracles with horn-like projections

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trumpets!

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adaptations to get foodin shwater

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nets, and brush mouths

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Soil Horizons

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OABC

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Upper A horizon is the

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Humus

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What buds doin underground?

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Foraging
* Living there:
foraging and
mating
* Laying eggs
* Pupating
* Escaping the
elements &
overwintering

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Insects living in leaf litter

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Collembola, Rove beetles, ground beetles

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Xylophagous

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Wood eating

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Pyrophilous

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Attracted to brunt wood

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Coprophagous

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dung-eating

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Troglobionts

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Cavers (as a hobby)

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Troglobites

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Cavers (as a lifestyle)

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How did insects start

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as a sis taxa to crustaceans, or within crustacea

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Primitive Hexapods
soft bodied
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Mycangium
transports symbiotic fungi
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Aquatic to terrestrial move
on floating marine vegatative mats, moss and lichen (intermittedly wet), Ephemeral ponds
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terrestrial origin proof
tracheal systems in fossils, genetic evidence, trachea present in odonata nymph, plant dmg fossils
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The 1st major adaptive radiation
Lower Carboniferous (with the radiation of gymnosperms)
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3 reasons for adaptive radiations
extinction event, New geographical region, closely associated with another adaptive radiation of another spp.
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1st major extinction
Permian-triassic (2nd radiation)
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3rd major adaptive radiation
Cretacious with angiosperm
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Routes to flight
floating, running and jumping, paragliding, SURFACE SAILING
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Arthropod successes
Compound eyes, Exoskeleton, Segmentation, tagmosis
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oldest hexapod
collembola
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adaptations to dryer environment
scales and heavier sclerotization
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plant-diet adaptations
filter chamber, mandibulate or piercing-sucking mouthparts, hut microorgs
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Plant Mechanical defenses
thick tissue, Spines, Pubescence, Glandular trichomes, normal trichomes
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unusual defenses for plants
extrafloral nectaries, immobilizing and attracting insects for feeding of predators
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eating one spp. of plant vs many
monophagous v oligophagous
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insects that feed on many different families
Polyphagous
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Types of Phytophagy (9)
Leaf chewing, mining, Boring, Girdling, seed feeding and boring, Root feeding, fluid feeding, galling, sap and nectar feeding
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Major insect galling groups
Hemiptera by sternorryncha, Diptera (gall midges,) Hymenoptera, tropical thrips
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insect pollination name
entophily
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cantharophily
bettol pollination
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myophily
fly pollination
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Sphecophily
wasp pollination
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Myrmecophily
ant pollination
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Bee pollination
Melitophily
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Moth pollination
Phalaenophily
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Psychophily
butterfli pollination
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domatia
plant homes :>
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Myrmechophytes
ant pants
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Myrmecochory
seed dispersal by ants (the food is elaisomes)
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Irritating hairs
Non-envenomating urticating hairs
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Losing a limb on purpose
Autotomy (must be hemimetabolous or an ametabolous juvenile)
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Faking your death
Thanotosis
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Chemical Defenses
stings, sprays, Poisonous body fluids, Poisonous secretions, envenomating urticating hairs, anifungal and bacterial chemicals on exoskeleton
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Warning of distatefulness toxicity or danger
Aposematism
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Batesian Mimicry
mimic not dangerous
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Mullerian Mimicry
both dangeroose
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My honest reaction to plant allelochemicals
keep em or detoxify
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Biology 367 General Entomology (8 decks)

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