Holometabolous Insects 2

Question 1

What is a brood?

Answer 1

immature stages of Hymenoptera

Question 2

What is a grub?

Answer 2

immature stages of Coleoptera

Question 3

What mouthparts do immature Hymenoptera have?

Answer 3

chewing

Question 4

What mouthparts do adult Hymenoptera have?

Answer 4

chewing and lapping

Question 5

What diet do some immature Hymenoptera have?

Answer 5

some are carnivorous

Question 6

What are examples of beneficial Hymenoptera?

Answer 6

bees and parasitoid wasps

Question 7

How did diversity develop in Hymenoptera?

Answer 7

by coevolving with flowers and host insects

Question 8

What kind of eggs produces male Hymenoptera?

Answer 8

haploid unfertilized eggs

Question 9

What kind of eggs produces female Hymenoptera?

Answer 9

diploid fertilized eggs

Question 10

What is the scientific name of little fire ants?

Answer 10

Wasmania auropunctata

Question 11

How do life stages differ in some Hymenoptera?

Answer 11

Diet fet to the immature can produce different adults, from males, females, and reproductive females

Question 12

What is the scientific name of European honey bees?

Answer 12

Apis melifera

Question 13

Who lays the eggs in european honey bees?

Answer 13

queen

Question 14

Which type of bee reaches adulthood first?

Answer 14

Queens, the workers, then drones

Question 15

What do queen northern giant hornet do during winter?

Answer 15

overwinter, similar to hibernation

emerge after winter

Question 16

What do northern giant hornets do after winter?

Answer 16

forms a colony and forages

Question 17

when do northern giant hornets reproduce?

Answer 17

fall

Question 18

What is the major strategy of parasitoid wasps?

Answer 18

parasitism

Question 19

How do parasitoid wasp species differ?

Answer 19

they differ by which life stage it parasitizes

Question 20

Why are parasitoid wasps important?

Answer 20

they act as biological control organisms

controls agricultural pests

Question 21

What do parasitoid wasps possess?

Answer 21

long, sharp ovipositors

Question 22

how do parasitoid wasps lay eggs? (3)

Answer 22

they oviposit egg in host

injects a virus to prevent the host immune system from attacking the egg

egg hatches and feeds on host

Question 23

What do parasitoid wasps lack?

Answer 23

venom glands

Question 24

what is the scientific name of the blue-eyed ensign wasp?

Answer 24

Evania appendigaster

Question 25

What is the blue-eyed ensign wasp, and what does it hunt?

Answer 25

a beneficial wasp common on Guam hunts cockroaches

Question 26

What does Neuroptera include?

Answer 26

lacewings

Question 27

What are the characteristics of Neuroptera larvae?

Answer 27

slender and humpback larvae

Question 28

What characteristics do Neuroptera adults have?

Answer 28

venous wings

Question 29

Why are Neuroptera important?

Answer 29

they act as biological control agents

Question 30

What mouthparts do adults and immature Neuroptera have?

Answer 30

chewing

Question 31

How do lacewings lay eggs?

Answer 31

on stalks

Question 32

What do Neuroptera larvae feed on?

Answer 32

Voracious predators feeding on pests like aphids

Question 33

What are antlions also known as?

Answer 33

doodlebugs

Question 34

What do antlion larvae feed on?

Answer 34

ants

Question 35

how long do antlion stay in its larval stage?

Answer 35

3 years

Question 36

how do antlion larvae feed?

Answer 36

by injecting digestive enzymes into prey

Question 37

What are adult antlions mistaken as?

Answer 37

dragonflies

Question 38

How do adult antlions and dragonflies differ?

Answer 38

dragonflies never folds its wings

Question 39

what do adult antlions feed on?

Answer 39

pollen and nectar

Question 40

what is the wingspan of adult antlions?

Answer 40

2-15 cm

Question 41

what kind of antennae do adult antlions have?

Answer 41

clubbed antennae

Question 42

what insect is included in Siphonaptera?

Answer 42

fleas

Question 43

What mouthparts does immature Siphonaptera have, and what does it feed on?

Answer 43

chewing mouthpart feeds on nests of animals

Question 44

What mouthparts does mature Siphonaptera have, and what does it feed on?

Answer 44

piercing and sucking mouthpart blood

Question 45

Do adult Siphonaptera have wings?

Answer 45

no

Question 46

how do Siphonaptera species differ?

Answer 46

they are host-specific

Question 47

Why are Siphonaptera harmful?

Answer 47

they are serious pests

Question 48

What is unique about the fleas' lifestyle? (2)

Answer 48

The majority of its life cycle is spent in the environment or in a host Only a short part is spent on the host

Question 49

How do fleas and tapeworms coexist? (3)

Answer 49

Adult flea with cysticercoid(egg casing of tapeworms) is ingested Eggs hatch within the host Egg casing is secreted, and consumed by flea larvae

Question 50

What do flea larvae feed on?

Answer 50

debris

Question 51

What is unique about flea pupa?

Answer 51

they can remain inactive for years

Question 52

How was the bubonic plauge vectored?

Answer 52

fleas fed on rats, and proceeded to feed on humans

Question 53

What are chigo fleas?

Answer 53

fleas that can live within humans