A parsley worm is in the order ____________ and the adult turns into _____________

Auxiliary sclerites form points of attachment for muscles that control the _______

A ________ is the stage of development of an insect between the immature form and the adult in holometabolous insects (those insects that go through complete metamorphosis)

Which structure would be found in an eruciform larva, but not in a scarabaeiform larva?

Which structure is not part of the head capsule of insects?

A legless, eteless, vermiform larva that is approximately 5mm in length would probably belong to what insect order?

In cicadas and other sucking insects, movement of liquid to the mouth results from the action of a ________

in centipedes, the "fangs" are what type of structure?

A _______ is the immature, aquatic stage of a dobsonfly

If an insect's subesophageal ganglion were paralyzed, it would be unable to ______

Which of these following components are not part of integrated past management (IPM)?

Blister beetles have what substance in their bodies that can be toxic to livestock?

The fireflies belong to which insect order?

Which part of the exoskeleton lies between the exocuticle and the wax layer?

The dorsal sclerite of each abdominal segment is called a ________

The eastern population of monarch butterflies overwinter in __________

______ is the appropriate concentration of ethanol to preserve most insects

The majority of native bees nest in what type of habitat?

The order Phthiraptera contains _________

Which structures of insects are part of the ovipositor?

Which part of an insects antenna articulates with its head capsule?

The eyes of a caterpillar are called ______

The plague or "black death" is a disease of rodents and is transmitted be the ______

What order of insects is generally considered most important from a medical and a veterinary standpoint?

Monarch butterflies depend on which plant for their survival?

_______ are thiught to be one of the first arthropods

Which abdominal structures of an insect are primarily sensory in function?

Which of the following orders of insects is most closely related to diotera?

Honey bees are valvuable agricultural pollinators worth an estimated _____ annually in the United States

A/an __________ is used by female insects to lay eggs

In what order of insects are the front and hind wings held together by hamuli?

Insects have evolved over a period of approximately ______ years

_______ belong to the order Hymenoptera

Ground Beetles and Cockroaches have ________ legas for running

Which of the following arthropods is not an insect

_______ can be used as biological control agents to help control pests

The absolute minimum information that must be associated with insect specimens after collection include ______

A _______ is a trap used to separate insects from soil or leaf litter

A caterpillar of the cabbage butterfly is a common pest of _______

What material do solitary female bees provision for their offspring in cell chambers?

Dichotomous keys are primarily based on differences and similarities in insect _________

The butterfly pupa is known as a ________

________ is the largest professional society dedicated to the study of insects

Most digestion in insects occurs in the

Cochineal is a natural product produced by

If an insect is described as having haustellate mouthparts, it means that the insect consumes __________

What is a hematophagous insect?

Katydids belong to which insect order?

A caterpillar does not have _______

Which of the following common name and order combination is correct?

An insect's head is specialized for ________

The father of modern Taxonomy who created the binomial system of nomenclature was ________

A beating tray or beat sheet is best used to collect which type of insects?

Immature scale insects are called ______

Numerous families in the order _______ can transmit plant diseases with their piercing-sucking mouthparts

Which structure never occurs on an abdominal segment?

Which of the following arthropods are not insects?

What is the visible characteristic that can be used to separate male and female mosquito adults?

How many abdominal segments are found in a typical insect?

Which of this information is not common on insect specimen labels?

An insect heart is best described as a ________

Which insect structure developes from an embryonic ectoderm?

The butterfly that mimics the monarch in coloration because of the distastefulness of monarchs to predators is the _______

Some insect eggs hatch inside the mother's body before exiting. An insect with this type of reproduction is called _____

The prime cause of insect extinctions, at least of local populations if not species, is _________

Which structure lies between the crop and the gastric caecae in the insect digestive system?

In what two states would one be most likely to cotract the rabbit fever, a disease that can be carried by ticks

Junctions between abdominal segments are best described as ______

A measure of insect dispersion gives an indication of _______

What insect orders are exclusively herbivorous?

Imaginal discs are best described as

______ determines whether bee larva become a queen or worker

What structure protects the midgut from abraision by food particles and acts like a sieve?

Which of the following describes the jumping legs of grasshoppers

The hypopharynx separates the mouth opening or food canal from the ________

Which structure is not part of an insect's tracheal system?

Approximately _______ species of insects are used as food in many parts of the world

Widely used pesticides that have been in the spotlight recently for being toxic to honey bees include _______

In which of the following do only females suck blood?

Approximately how many species of insects have been described to date?

About ____ percent of people that get stung by stinging insects suffer serious reactions

Which of these events occurs first during insect egg developement?

The majority of honey bees in a colony are females and called _________

As juvenile horomone levels fall in the hemolymph, what reaction is triggered in insects?

The "scales" of butterflies are _________

Predaceous diving beetles belong to which insect order?

The word "coleoptera" is derived from two Greek words, coleo coming fromthe word koleos, meaning _____, and ptera coming from the word pteron, meaning _____.

______ secrete a bubbly liquid-covering on plants to conceal themselves or their eggs.

What is the function of an aeropyle of an insect's egg?

The internal organ system of insects that is analogous to the liver in mammals (In insects, it serves to actively transport water and ions from the hemolymph) is the __________

Approximately how many native bee species are known in North America?

_______ is the order if Walkingsticks amd Leaf insects

Malaria was eradicated in the U.S. in the mid 20th century in part because of the widespread use of ________

What does it mean when an insect is described as Hemimetabolous?

Honeybees use the _______ dance to communicate the location of food sources from hive

Some insects are considered _____ because loss of their contributions to critical ecological functions could collapse a broader ecosystem

Dermestid beetles that feed on dry and pinned specimens are commonly repelled with _______

The following is the genus of the "yellow fever mosquito" and "Asian tiger mosquito" that vectors dengue chikungunya and zika viruses

The frons and clypeus, located on the head, are separated by the _______

An insect's cuticle is primarily made of _______, which has also been studied for its medicinal properties

Which part of the leg lies between the femur and the tarus?

The "Powder" left over from being in contact with moths or butterflies is actually tiny ____

What was a major arthopod borne disease that resulted in great losses fir Napoleon on his campaign to Russia?

The feces of triatomid bugs harbor the causative agent for what disease in humans?

The Snakeflies belong to the order ________

Rigid, inflexible structures of the exoskeleton are called _____

The state insect of Texas is the ________

A dun is a fly fishing term used to describe what type of insect?

In many insects, three light-sensitive "simple" eyes, or ____, are situated of the anterior vextex between the compound eyes

An apodeme could NOT be described as ___________

These insects typically hold their wings together above their abdomen when resting

Which structure is not part of an insect's antenna?

Mole crickets have _______ les used for digging

Where do the larva of horse flies occur?

What is the branch of science concerned with describing, naming, and classifying organisms?

_____ are not considered a biological control agent for killing insect pests

The furca is best described as:

Water boatmen have _____ legs used for swimming

______ is where digestive enzymes are secreted and most food absorption occurs in the insects gut

This best choice for a chemical to use in an insect kill jar is __

Which of these is not a longitudinal wing vein?

Collophore and furcula are morphological terms associated with which order of insects?

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 _________

A suture of the exoskeleton is best described as a _____

The Latin word "Insectum" means:

The insect mouthparts include all of these structures except:

What type of insect vectors Chagas disease

Functions of the insect hemolymph include:

____ is the ability of insects to survive toxicity after chronic exposure to pesticides

Antlions belong to the order ______

Caddisflies belong to the order _____

The ______ civilization regared dung beetles as sacred

When and where were the first fire ants discovered in North America?

____ are the two orders of primitively wingless insects

Which structure are not a component of endocrine system in insects?

What is the reservoir of louse-born typhus?

What is the name for the "shell" of an insect egg?

Which insect order contains the crickets and grasshoppers?

A hearing organ of an insect is _____

Which structure would not be found on an insects leg?

Very few insects are found in this habitat

A mass of neural tissue that contains mostly nerve bobies and interneurona in an insect is called a ______

The boll weevil Anthonomus Grandis was a sever cotton pest belonging to which family of beetles?

Some factors contributing to the success of insects are:

Which structure would not be found on an insects prothorax?

An insect has a protective cuticle that allows it to _____

What are some reasons that could have influenced the large size of insects prehistorically?

How does the honey bee queen decide the sex of her offspring?

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

The body temperature of insects changes with ambient environmental temperatures. Therefore, most insects cannot efficiently change their internal body temperature above the temperature of the environment. The first sentence describes ______________ while the second sentence describes ________________.

What diseases do Culex pipiens pipiens and C. p. quinquefasciatus vector?

What is the mouthpart fir feeding within the Lepidoptera?

What is the primary function of the wax layer of the exoskeleton?

Dermaptera or earwigs are most closely related to which insect order?

Insects use their olfactory system for __________

Which of the following insect groups has hemimetabolous development?

The phrase endemic insect refers to:

Solitary bees build nests in what type of habitat?

The renowned myrmecologist ____________________ established the field of sociobiology.

During the _________, German cockroaches are very active.

The bed bug, Cimex lectularious, is an effective vector of what pathogenic microorganism?

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

The pleural suture lies just posterior to the __________________.

What insects are included in the order Pthiraptera?

What was a major cotton pest that was successfully eradicated in the U.S.?

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

_______ is a primary characteristic of the order Orthoptera and is the type of forewing of this group

Which of the followings is the common name of the order Mecoptera?

The reproductive organ in male insects for transferring sperm is the ______________

Which structure would not be found on an insect's pretarsus?

What order of insects usually have their wings covered in flattened setae or scales?

The following are groups of eusocial insects:

Insects from this order do not act as pollinators:

What is the principle energy source for most insects?

What are the larva of mosquitoes commonly referred to as?

The insect cuticle is between _____ and ______ microns thick.

Which of these occupies the largest volume in an unfertilized insect egg?

In Diptera, hindwings are modified into small, club-like structure called________ that serves as gyroscopes, informing the insect about rotation of the body during flight.

_____________ is a family in the order __________

Abdominal gills allow insects to utilize oxygen that is ____________________.

All of the following insects have holometabolous development, except ________

Digging legs of mole crickets are what functional type?

The insect abdomen contains:

What percentage of flowering plants on Earth require insect pollination?

Webspinners belong to which insect order?

One-way flow valves in the heart are called ______________.

_________ represents the most speciose order of insects, with approximately __________ species

Which abdominal structure of an insect is unpaired?

_________ are the individual light-sensing and image forming units of the insect s compound eye.

A sperm cell enters the insect egg through the _____________.

The followings are the parts of the insect thorax:

In what order of insects are the front wings known as "elytra?"

What are two distinguishing features of the subphylum Hexapoda that seperates them from other classes of arthropods?

A tool used to collect insects using your mouth or a hand bulb and a small vial is called a/an _____________.

What do the orders Mantodea and Blattodae have in common?

An insect with tracheal gills would probably be found in ___________________

If you wanted to study entomology in college, what types of courses might you take at a university

offering an undergraduate or graduate degree in entomology?

What structure is found in Diptera, but NOT in Hymenoptera

A ___________ is used to collect ground dwelling, crawling insects.

Chemicals released from plants to attract parasitic or predaceous insects that combat herbivorous insects are called ____________________.

_______ flour has been developed and marketed in recent years as a new form of supplemental protein and a cooking agent.

Firebrats and silverfish are common household pests in the order __________.

To which body segment are the elytra attached?

The ____ is the ventral surface of the thorax of insects.

Squash bugs belong to what insect order?

The Johnston s organ ____________

A tool that allows one to adjust the height and position of a pinned specimen and accompanying label is a ___________.

Insects have _________ pair of legs and _________primary body regions.

The old shed skin left behind after an insect molts is known as the _________.

After its second molt an insect is a _____________ instar.

To which family do hard ticks belong?

Which larval type does not have walking legs?

The abdomen of insects is specialized for:

The Hymenoptera from the list below that are not social are____________

Urticating hairs are associated with plants, tarantulas and what insect order?

The developmental stage of an insect between molts is called a/an ________

The following sections are parts of an insect s leg

Oothecas, or egg cases, belonging to what insect order?

You are hired as an extension entomologist for the state of Texas. Your first task in this job is to identify a pest in cotton. You go out to the cotton fields to collect specimens and find that this new pest is tiny (less than 1 mm long), has rasping-sucking mouthparts, and fringed wings. Based on this information this cotton pest is likely a:

The following are some of the major insect wing veins:

When an insect has a vestigial mouthpart, that insect _______.

During a molt, which layer of the old exoskeleton is digested by molting fluid, reabsorbed by the epidermal cells, and reconstituted as new procuticle?

Rachel Carson published a book titled _______________ that highlighted pesticide issues and environmental contamination as a result of the overuse of DDT in the mid 20th century.

__________ are regarded as the most important group of insect pollinators.

What is the correct common name for Solenopsis invicta Buren?

A geniculate insect antenna is ___________________

The following are natural products derived from insects:

Which insects never develop wings?

In integrated pest management, this is the point at which action must be taken to avoid economic damage from insect injury.

Puddling is a behavior in the ______________ where adults aggregate and drink from mud puddles or moist soil.

What structures regulate air flow into and out of the tracheal system in insects?

The whirligig beetle has how many pairs of eyes?

Which insect order does not have aquatic stages of development?

The discoverer of mosquito transmission of malaria was _________

Which structures are innervated by the protocerebrum of an insect s brain?

Why do insects molt?

What are some characteristics of social insects?

The tracheal system of an insect is best described as ______________

_____ is found as both a supporting element in fungal cell walls and a key component of arthropod exoskeletons.

If an insect id described as zoophilic, that insect prefers ___ to ____

Which part of the exoskeleton is formed by a single layer of epithelial cells?

Giant water bugs belong to the order Hemiptera and are in the family ___________

Dutch elm disease is caused by a ___________ that is carried by ________

The blood of insects is called ________

Dolbears law refers to what insect and environmental relationship?

The "vampire" mite that has been a serious pest of managed honey bees is the _________

_________ do not belong to the order Hemiptera

What is the primary chemical component of the insect's egg shell?

The ____ are structures of the insect head that are responsible for grinding solid food.