Arthropods
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Pests and helpers
Insects in the News
100
All insects are ___________________, but not all __________________ are insects.
What are arthroopods?
100
Weevils are most likely employing this feeding technique.
What is piercing and sucking?
100
You can use the two-step identification tool to identify organisms or objects.
What is a dichotomous key?
100
Native to Asia, this insect was found in Pennsylvania (2014), New Jersey, Delaware, and Virginia., and now New York. It targets ailanthus trees and attacks crops like grapes, hops, and apples, as well as forest products.
What is the the Spotted Lantern Fly?
100
5.5 million of these insects were found to be living underground in an Ithaca cemetary.
What are bees?
200
All arthropods must do this in order to shed their old outer covering and grow a new one.
What is molt?
200
When insects are grinding and slicing their food , they are most likely using this type of mouthpart.
What are mandibles?
200
This type of metamorphosis has a three-stage life cycle - egg, nymph, and adult. Young insects resemble smaller, wingless adults
What is incomplete metamorphosis?
200
These beetles, present on all New York beef and dairy farms, are crucial for improved soil health and pasture ecology.
What are Dung Beetles?
200
This type of insect has been plaguing the ash trees of NYS.
What is the Emerald Ash Borer?
300
In addition to segmented bodies, arthropods also have segemented ____________.
What are legs?
300
In this type of feeding, moths and butterflies use a proboscis for probing into a flower and sucking out nectar
What is siphoning?
300
This is the name given to the simple eyes on the head of an insect.
What are Ocelli, or Ocellus.
300
This aphid-like insect from Asia targets Eastern and Carolina Hemlock, and where severely damaged sites lost over 95% of understory T. canadensis, up to 90% of saplings, and 50–69% of stand density and basal area.
What is the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid?
300
This type of moth is one of the most invasive forest pests in the Northeast, and has recently gone through a name change.
What is the Spongy moth (formerly the gypsy moth)?
400
Arthropods evolved approximately this many years ago.
What is 600 million (plus or minus 25 million years is acceptable)
400
Mosquitos use this structure to pierce skin and suck blood.
What is a proboscis?
400
Damselflies and Dragonflies belong to which taxonomic Order?
What is Odonata?
400
These beneficial Beetles prey on many insect pests in the soil, on the surface, and in plant foliage. They benefit farmers and gardeners by reducing pest populations.
What is the Rover Beetle?
400
300 million years ago, when oxygen levels were 70 percent higher, these insects were bigger, and had a wingspread of two feet or more.
What are Dragonflies, or Odonata?
500
Non-insect Arthropods never have these...
What are simple eyes, 3 pairs of legs, wings, or 3 body segments. (any one of these is considered a correct answer)
500
A dragonfly is an aquatic predator during this stage of growth.
What is a nymph?
500
These structures on the back of some insects can alert them to the presence of predators.
What are cerci?
500
Native to NY. Orius species ambush soft-bodied insect pests on plant surfaces and in foliage folds. They prey on pests like thrips, caterpillars, springtails, mites, aphids, and leafhoppers.
What is the Minute Pirate Bug (Orius tristicolor)
500
Name one of the insect species found in Six Mile Creek by volunteers at the Community Science Institute.
What are Water Pennies, Caddisflies, or Mayflies?