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This is the largest known insect.
What is the giant stick insect?
This is the state insect of Nebraska.
What is the honeybee?
Corn has been genetically modified to produce this chemical to reduce damage from European Corn Borer and other insect pests?
What is Bt?
Flour from these insects is used to add protein to Chirps brand chips?
What are crickets?
These insects kept showing up in Ryan’s shower?
What are lady bird beetles?
This is the heaviest known insect, weighing in at 3 1/2 ounces.
What is the Goliath Beetle.
Swarms of these insects caused significant damage to crops in Nebraska in the 1870s.
What are grasshoppers?
Corn leaf aphids can be managed by these two biological controls?
What are lady beetles and green lacewings?
This is the scientific term for eating bugs?
What is entomophagy?
These true bugs reproduce using traumatic insemination?
What are bed bugs (Cimicidae)?
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this is the most cold-tolerant terrestrial insect, able to remain unfrozen at temperatures as a low as -80C.
What is the Red Flat Bark Beetle?
This insect was the source of an early Nebraska nickname, the “bug eaters.”
What is the potato bug?
These larvae of click beetles are an early season corn crop pest?
What are wireworms?
This is the scientific name for the family of beetles whose larvae are the most widely human-consumed insect on earth. What are Tenebrionidae (Darkling beetles)?
What are Tenebrionidae (Darkling beetles)?
In Greek mythology, Tithonus became the first of this insect after being given immortality by Zeus.
What is a Cicada?
This species has the most deadly venom of any insect.
What are harvester ants?
This is the only entry on the Nebraska Invasive Species Council list of Invasive Terrestrial Insects.
What is the emerald ash borer?
These larva from the Scarabaeidae family attack the roots of corn plants?
What are white grubs?
This family of moths is not only used in textiles but is also part of traditional diets in sub-Saharan Africa.
What is Saturniidae?
Beijing hosts an annual championship for fighters of this family of insects?
What are crickets?
This insect's bite, the most painful of all insect bites, has been compared to, "Like walking over flaming charcoal with a three-inch nail embedded in your heel,"
What is the bullet ant?
This insect, one of the rarest on Earth, lives exclusively in Lincoln, NE.
What is the Salt Creek tiger beetle?
These leaf beetles are an early season corn pest.
What are corn flea beetles or corn rootworm beetles?
This family of true bugs is the source of carmine, a natural red food coloring?
What is Dactylopiidae?
Leafcutter ants have elaborate practices to maintain “farms” of these.
What are mushrooms?