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Insect Body
Insect Body
This is the container filled with acetone that you put insects in after capture.
What is a kill jar?
This is the scientific name for complete metamorphosis.
What is holometabolous?
In female meiosis, the cells that don't become eggs are known as this.
What are polar bodies?
This is the food storage component of the insect digestive system.
What is the crop?
This grinds food before it enters the midgut of the insect.
What is the proventriculus?
This is the type of net you should use in dense vegetation.
What is a sweep net?
This is the compound that gives mechanical strength to the exoskeleton.
The male testes are divided into this functional unit.
What are the follicles?
This is the term for an insects blood.
What is hemolymph?
These are the two types of flight muscles.
What are direct and indirect flight muscles?
These are the three main parts on an insect.
What is the head, thorax and abdomen?
These are the three hormones that regulate growth and metamorphosis.
What are PTTH, JH and ecdysone?
This is the part of the female reproductive system that stores sperm.
What is the spermatheca?
Insects take in oxygen through _______ and distribute it throughout the body using their ___________.
What is their spiracles and tracheal system?
This is how insects walk.
What is insects walk using the first and last leg on one side and the middle leg on the opposite side in alteration with the reverse; this provides stability?
This type of antennae is feathery.
What is plumose?
These are the terms for the start and end of a molt. (2 terms)
What are apolysis and ecdysis?
During copulation, the male deposits his ________________ in the ______________.
What is the spermatophore and the bursa copulatrix?
This is where you will find the insect nervous system. (Directional term on the insects body).
What is ventral?
This type of insect muscle group surrounds ducts and tubes produce directional waves /peristalsis for moving “products”.
What are the visceral muscles?
This type of leg is adapted for swimming.
What is natorial?
This is the name of the structure that flies use to break out of their puparium.
What is a ptinilium?
During embryogenesis, the mesoderm becomes this.
What are the muscles, heart and blood?
The part of the insect brain that processes sensory information collected by the antennae is known as the _______.
What is the deutocerebrum?
This part of the insect nervous system innervates the heart, corpora cardiaca, and portions of the foregut.
What is the hypocerebral ganglion?