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1. Which arthropod was reported in August 1998 as the fourth major cause of death in part of Iran?
   (click here) ticks assassin bugs scorpions centipedes

   

2. The piece of pizza above most likely has no insect parts in it.
   TF

3. Some cosmetics are made from the royal jelly or beeswax from bee colonies.
   TF

4. Your friend has decided to go into the silk production business and is raising Monarch butterflies to produce silk. You tell your friend:
   Swallowtail butterflies would be better because they are the state insect and are better adapted to the area.
   Painted lady butterflies have a large silk cocoon and that you know how to grow them.
   To get a moth colony instead.
   

5. Chiggers dissolve skin tissue around their beaks, and this tissue hardens into a tube. The tube remains after the chigger leaves, causing itching.
   TF

6. You recently found an arthropod on your friend's head. It has six legs, and it is hard. It looks to you like it has only one noticeable body region and it definitely has no mandibles. It is dark brown in color, with segmented legs. Your friend wants to know what it is because it apparently is feeding on your friend. You tell your friend that:
   it is a scorpion, so look out!
   it is an ant.
   it is a spider.
   it is a tick.
   

7. A nit is an egg of a louse
   TF

8. Mosquitoes transmit heartworms to:
   Dogs only.
   Dogs and infant humans.
   Dogs, infant humans, and cats.
   Anything that the male mosquito bites.
   

9. All insects are true bugs, but not all true bugs are insects.
   TF

   

10. The animal above lives in or near water and has a free-floating larval stage. It is in the Subphylum:
    (click here) Crustacea Isopoda Diplopoda Hexapoda

    

11. You found the above insect in your basement. It shed its wings almost immediately after you saw it. It is a:
    (click here) Flying Ant Dragonfly Flying Termite Flying Cockroach

    

12. The above organism is in the Order:
    (click here) Arachnida Araneida Arabica Acari

13. You can't sleep, so you go to the kitchen at 2AM. You spot a whitish cockroach with brown eyes crawling on the remains of your peanut butter and jelly sandwich. You yell, and this awakens your roommate. You say:
    "Wow, I have never seen an albino cockroach before."
    "Wow, look at the cockroach that just molted!."
    "Wow, a white species of cockroach!"
    "Wow, I did not know professors would eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!"
    

14. Aestivation usually occurs in the summer and occurs because of only one stimulus- temperature changes.
    TF

    

15. The graph above shows an insect in three stages of its life cycle. What stage is pointed to?
    (click here) Adult stage Larval stage Egg Stage Pupal stage

    

16. This life stage is an example of why insects are diverse because:
    It is an example of the changes in body structure, habit, and behavior that enabled insects to better fit environmental niches.
    It is an example of a wingless insect.
    It is an example of a scale insect, many of which are very abundant.
    It is an example of a parasitic wasp pupa that has attacked a caterpillar.