Entomology Test 4

Insects use their olfactory system for ______.

• seeing

• smelling
• sucking

• hearing

The Hymenoptera from the list below that are not social are _____

• sweat bees
• hornets

• honey bees

• leafcutter bees

Water boatmen have ______ legs used for swimming.

• Natatorial
• Cursorial

• Fossorial

• Raptorial

The aquatic insect order whose immature stages sometimes create rock cases is ____.

• Odonata

• Ephemeroptera

• Trichoptera

• Diptera

What is the causal agent of pink eye in cattle that can be vectored by flies?

• Moraxella bovis

• Sarcoptes scabiei

• Trypanosoma evansi

• Coerthrella bovis

The insect with one of the longest known migrations and that was petitioned in 2016 to be listed for threatened or endangered status per the U.S. Endangered Species Act is the ______.

• monarch butterfly
• flame skimmer

• green darner

• western tarnished plant bug

An insect’s head is specialized for ____________________.

• ingestion and perception

• reproduction and digestion

• adaptation and respiration

• orientation and locomotion

Caddisflies belong to the order ____________________.

• Trichoptera

• Lepidoptera

• Isoptera

• Neuroptera

What function do protein cross-linkages have in the insect exoskeleton?

• They make membranes more flexible.

• They make sclerites more rigid.

• They lighten the color of the exoskeleton.

• They make it impermeable to water.

Insects that pass through the egg, larva, pupa, and adult stages in their life cycle have ____________________.

• no metamorphosis

• gradual metamorphosis

• complete metamorphosis

• incomplete metamorphosis