Basic Insect Q's
What is Arthropoda?
What is 2 pairs or 4 wings?
An arthropod uses these to feel, smell, and grasp.
What are antennae?
A source of "food" for blood-sucking insects is called this.
What is a host?
Bees are responsible for doing this to 80% of flowering plants, 75% of fruits, nuts and vegetables grown in the U.S.
What is pollinating?
Spiders and scorpions are in this "class."
What are arachnids?
This is the name of the outer hard "shell" on an insect.
What is the exoskeleton?
Most insects reproduce by this.
What is laying eggs?
A tick acquires his food source by doing this.
What is questing?
Bees turn nectar that they eat into this in their bellies which they then regurgitate.
What is honey?
The name for an insect or animal that has no backbone.
What is an invertebrate?
The number of legs that an insect has.
What is 6 legs?
Many insects have this type of eye that can have as many as thousands of different lenses.
What is a compound eye?
Ticks can carry these very dangerous diseases.
What are Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever?
The three types of honeybees are this.
The body temperature of an arthropod.
What is cold-blooded?
These are the 3 mains parts of an insect.
What are the head, thorax, and abdomen?
The protective hard outer covering for some insects wings is called this.
What is elytra?
This is where mosquitos lay their eggs and begin their life cycle.
Where is in the water?
A butterfly uses this rolled-up tube to drink nectar from flowers.
What is a proboscis?
What is a detritivore.
This is what an insect uses to breathe.
What are spiracles?
Fireflies use this chemical reaction to illuminate their abdomens.
What is bioluminescence?
Mosquitos are known to carry this very dangerous and sometimes deadly disease.
What is malaria?
Butterflies drink from mud puddles to get these to survive.
What are minerals and salts?