Spiders
This group of spiders posses uriticating hairs.
What are tarantulas?
This is where baby scorpions go after birth.
What is the birth basket?
This group of Hymenoptera can only sting once because they have a barbed stinger that is left behind.
What are honey bees?
This is the vector of Lyme Disease.
What is the deer tick (or black legged tick)?
These vave associated poison glands and must be innervated in order for the toxins to be released
What are spine hairs?
This family of Scorpions contains the ones that are sold in pet stores.
What is Scorpionidae?
This species of ant stings readily and causes intense pain.
What are harvester ants?
This is the disease vectored by ticks that is most common in the United States, specifically the Eastern US.
What is Lyme Disease?
This is when you have a reaction to Lepidoptera when you come in contact with the larvae.
What is â–«erucism?
This morphological feature is unique to scorpions.
What is a Telson?
This Vespidae group makes ground nests.
What are the yellow jackets?
This is the host finding behavior that ticks exhibit.
What is questing?
This family of Lepidoptera contains the most dangerous caterpillar, especially in South America.
What is Megalopygidae?
The venom of widow spiders act at this place in the body.
What are the neuromuscular junctions?
What is the most dangerous scorpion in the United States?
What is Centruroides exilicauda?
What kind of life cycle does the relapsing fever tick have?
What is a multi host Argasid life cycle?
This causes equine abortion and stillbirth when the Barbed setae penetrate intestinal wall and enter bloodstream
What is horses ingesting caterpillars?
This is the active component in widow toxin.
What is latrotoxin?
This is the active component of Scorpion venom that was used to treat Leukemia cancer cells in the paper discussed in class.
What is Bengalin?
This component of Hymenoptera venom is a membrane-active polypeptide that can cause degranulation of basophils.
What is Mellitin?
This is the treatment for Rocky mountain spotted fever.
What is doxycline?
This genus contains the wound feeding caterpillars.
What is Calyptra?