Insects
Insect Orders
Life Cycles
Invasive Insects/Macroinverts/Insecticides
Miscellaneous
100
How many body parts do insects have?
3
100
Flies
Diptera
100
What are the two types of life cycles insects undergo?
complete and incomplete metamorphosis
100
Name an invasive insect found in Michigan.
Brown marmorated stink bug
Japanese beetle
gypsy moth
spotted lanternfly
100
Name a carnivorous insect.
praying mantis, dragonfly, tiger beetle, water scorpion
200
How many legs do insects have?
6
200
Bees/Wasps
Hymenoptera
200
What type of life cycle does a butterfly undergo?
Name the stages.
complete metamorphosis
egg - larva - chrysallis - adult
200
What disease are insecticides predominantly used to prevent?
malaria
200
What order of insects are mayflies in?
What does the name of their order mean?
Ephemperotera
Short-lived
300
Name the three sections of an insect's body.
head, thorax and abdomen
300
Beetles
Name a specific beetle native to Michigan.
Coleoptera
May beetle
Lady bug
Ground beetle
300
What species of insect burrows underground as a nymph and spends 13-17 years before it emerges and transforms into an adult?
periodical cicada
300
What type of life cycle do insects have who spend part of their life in water?
What stage of their life cycle is aquatic?
Name two insects with an aquatic stage in their life cycle.
Incomplete metamorphosis
Nymph
mosquito, dragonfly, mayfly, dobsonfly
300
What is the name of the insect that causes this?
goldenrod gall fly
400
Grasshoppers
Orthoptera
400
What type of life cycle does a dragonfly have?
Name the stages?
Where does each stage live?
incomplete metamorphosis
egg-nymph - adult
water - water - air
400
Identify these macroinvertebrates:
dragonfly nymph
mayfly nymph
400
What type of bug causes spittle on plants? What causes the spittle?
spittlebugs (nymph) - frog hoppers (adult)
excess sap that is excreted out of their abdomen mixes with air producing bubbles.
500
What order of insect is the most plentiful?
Coleoptera - beetles
500
Name an insect native to Michigan in the order Hemiptera.
Stink
500
What is unique about the adult stage of most insects?
Many of them do not have mouth parts because they don't eat, but live a very short time in which they only reproduce.
Ex: mayflies
500
Identify these invasive species:
spotted lanternfly, japanese beetle, brown marmorated stink bug, asian longhorn beetle
500
Describe three ways mason bees are different than honey bees.
mason bees have a higher pollination rate 95% to 5%
mason bees are solitary vs social
mason bees carry pollen all over their body on hair vs. honey bees carry pollen on their legs