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1. 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.
   

2. Some cosmetics are made from the royal jelly or beeswax from bee colonies.
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3. The U.S. has banned the importation of goods from China packed in untreated wooden crates in order to prevent the entry of which insect into the U.S.?
   (click here) the Asian cockroach the Formosan termite the Asian long-horned beetle

4. 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

   

5. The above organisms are urban pests and are:
   (click here) Termites Carpenter ants Fleas Mosquitoes

   

6. The organisms above were found inside a wall in your house. They are black, have six legs and are social insects. They are:
   (click here) Carpenter ants Termites Dragonflies Bedbugs

7. The #1 disease of humans today worldwide is:
   (click here) malaria AIDS cancer yellow fever

8. Bubonic plague is vectored by:
   fleas
   flies
   lice
   nits
   

   

9. This organism is in the SUBPHYLUM:
   (click here) Arachnida. Crustacea. Arthropoda. Isopoda.

10. One order of insects is supposed to have the habit of crawling into your ear and laying eggs. An episode of the TV show Night Gallery featured this insect. The insects in this order are nocturnal and omnivorous. They have cerci, or pincers, at the ends of their abdomens. The order is:
    (click here) Odonata. Dermaptera. Coleoptera. Hemiptera.

11. You can tell a butterfly from a moth on the basis of bright coloration.
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12. Which of the following is not characteristic of the Order Hemiptera:
    (click here) hemelyta piercing-sucking mouthparts a beak which arises at the front of the head one pair of wings

13. Hymenopterans are the only social insects.
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14. It is summer time, and it is a hot day. You are at the beach and see a dragonfly perched on a stick a few feet from your head. Its abdominal wall is rhythmically moving in and out. What is it doing?
    Preparing to lay eggs.
    Attracting a mate.
    Ventilating its abdomen.
    Digesting recently eaten food.
    

15. Most insect blood does not carry oxygen, but does carry food and hormones.
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16. Immature dragonflies are called larvae.
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