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103 Cards in this Set
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In order to make an insect virus kill a pest more quickly a gene for a ______ from a ______ was put into the DNA of an insect ________.
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Toxin; mite; virus
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__________ is an insect whose larvae consume their host.
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Parasitoid
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B.t. toxin destroys the __________ of the insect that eats it.
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Stomach
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Anthrax is a _________.
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Bacterium
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If a female wasp lays an unfertilized egg in a caterpillar, the insect that develops from that egg will be a ________.
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Male
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The four different types of insect pheromone are:
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-Sex
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_________ is the name of the aminosugar polymer that is the main component of the insect cuticle.
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Chitin
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Most insects get rid of waste nitrogen products by excreting __________.
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Uric acid
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Insect blood is a __________.
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Hemolymph
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Insects can oxidize sugar to produce ___________, __________ and _________.
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Carbon dioxide, energy and water.
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Birds sometimes nest in Acacia trees that have wasp nests. The wasps help to protect the baby birds from _________.
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Monkeys
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In laboratory studies, Monarch butterfly larvae died when they ate _________________.
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Pollen from B.t. corn
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Beltian bodies are made by ______________.
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Acacia trees
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Mistletoe butterflies lay their eggs on mistletoe. The larvae of the mistletoe butterfly feed on ______________.
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Mistletoe leaves
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"Relationship between two species that benefits both parties" is ___________.
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Mutualism
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Insects who have the largest colonies of all social insects belong to the order ___________.
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Isoptera
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Termites have _____________ metamorphosis.
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Incomplete
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The four castes of a termite colony are:
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-Soldier
-Worker -King -Queen |
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Termites have a symbolic relationship with protozoa or fungi in order to ________________.
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Degrade cellulose
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Termites are most closely related to ____________.
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Cockroaches
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Mayfly adults live for 1 to 3 _______.
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Days
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Mayfly nymphs breathe with _______, feed on _______ and live 1 to 3 _______.
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Gills; plants; years
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Mayflies have _________ metamorphosis.
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Incomplete
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____________ is the name of the insect order for which the translation is "Short-lived" "wings".
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Ephemeroptera
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When keying out insects, one usually uses _________.
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Adults
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______________ is the order weevils belong to.
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Coleoptera
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Ladybugs found on hop plants are probably feeding on ________.
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Aphids
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Fireflies produce light by combing ____________ and __________.
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Luciferin and oxygen
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Female fireflies have flash patterns that are ___________ from that of male fireflies of the same species.
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Different
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___________ is the order mayflies belong to. ____________ is the order fireflies belong to.
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Ephemeropera; Coleoptera
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Blister beetles produce ____________.
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Cantharidin
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When grassland was being lost, dung beetles were imported into ___________.
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Australia
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Civetone is produced by _____________.
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Civet cats
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In ancient Egypt, the sun god Ra was a __________.
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Beetle
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Whriligig beetles are ____________, have divided _______ and swim in circles to help find _________.
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Scavengers; eyes; food
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All of the moths of Costa Rica are being identified by ____________.
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Dan Janzen
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_______________ is the order of insects that has the greatest color variation.
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Lepidoptera
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The scales of a butterfly are modified _________.
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Hairs
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Monarch butterfly larvae sequester _____________.
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Cardenolides
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Male and female Florida queen butterflies do a mating dance. The male dusts the female with a sex pheromone by using _____________.
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Hair pencils
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In the novel Jurassic Park dinosaur DNA was recovered from a ___________ that was preserved in ___________.
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Mosquito; amber
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__________ plant has downward pointing hairs and a "pool" into which insects fall.
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Pitcher
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_________ plant is native only to the wetlands of North Carolina and South Carolina.
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Venus fly trap
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__________ plant has bright colors to attract insects and leaf tentacles that are sticky.
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Sundew
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Plants may defend against herbivores by having _______________ in leaves, ___________ inhibitors and secondary plant products that are _________.
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Silicon oxide; proteinase; toxic
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___________ is the name of the insect order where the translation means "apparition."
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Phasimida
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Preying mantids have ____________ forelegs.
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Raptorial
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Mantids can "hear" the sonar of _________.
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Bats
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____________ is the order that the preying mantis (Mantis religiosa) belongs to.
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Mantodea
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___________ is the class do scorpions belong to.
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Arachnida
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The deer tick is the vector of Lyme disease. A person is most likely to get Lyme disease from a deer tick when it is a __________.
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Nymph
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___________ is the subclass that ticks and mites belong to.
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Acari
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The disease agent that causes Lyme disease is a ____________.
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Bacterium (Borrelia)
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The two main body parts of a tick are ____________ and ____________.
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Cehpalothorax and abdomen
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___________ is the subclass that spiders belong to.
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Araneae
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Male spiders deliver sperm to a female with _________.
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Palps
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The zig zag cross strands in the web of an orb weaver spider are called the ______________.
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Stabilimentum
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Spiders have ______ legs.
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8
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The movements of the front legs are very important for the mating dance of the male ______________.
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Jumping spider
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A _______________ has a red hourglass on its abdomen.
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Black widow
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____________ can throw its own body hairs at a potential predator as a form of defense.
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Tarantulas
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Randy Lewis from the University of Wyoming cloned the gene for silk from _________.
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Spiders
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The bite of the __________ can cause skin necrosis.
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Brown recluse
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Silk is a _________.
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Protein
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The nest cell of a carpenter bee is larger if the egg that was laid in the nest cell is going to be a _________.
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Female
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_____________ collects pollen by "buzzing" the flowers.
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Blueberry bee
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Joe Lewis form the USDA lab in Tifton, GA works with _______________.
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Parasitic wasps
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Bees can carry more pollen if they have _________ on their legs.
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Branched hairs
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The larvae of solitary bees feed on _________.
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Pollen
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Wasps apply ______________ to the base of their nest to repel ants.
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Fatty acids
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The paper wasp nest is made of paper which is __________________ and glue which is _______________.
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Chewed plant fiber; protein from wasp saliva
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______________ is the order the paper wasp (Polistes metricus) belongs to.
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Hymenoptera
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We have _____ species of hornets in Georgia.
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Two
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The stinger of a social wasp is a modified ____________.
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Ovipositor
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___________ are attracted to electrical circuits.
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Fire ants
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Fire ants compete for food with _____________.
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Blue birds
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Fire ants came to the U.S. from _____________.
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South America
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Ants, bees and wasps are able to recognize their nestmates because they have ____________________.
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Unique patterns of cuticular hydrocarbons
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Exchange of liquid between members of a colony is _____________.
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Trophallaxis
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Most of the crop plants grown in the U.S. are not _________ to this country.
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Native
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One problem with using sterilization to control pest insects is that they are difficult to ________________.
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Rear in lab
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B.t. is a __________.
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Bacterium
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Most species have __________ metamorphosis.
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Complete
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________________ is the scientist who gave us the system of binomial nomenclature.
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Carolus Linneaus
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Jointed appendages on the thorax of an insect are usually used for ___________.
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Locomotion
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_____________ is a "period of arrested development"
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Diapause
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Insects that have two or three tails in the adult stage belong to the order _____________.
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Ephemeroptera
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The muscles of _______________ and ____________ are attached to their wings in a manner similar to that of birds and bats.
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Damselflies and dragonflies
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____________ is the order that dragonflies belong to.
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Odonata
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_______________ hold their wings out to the side when at rest.
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Dragonflies
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Dragonflies have a long __________.
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Abdomen
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The penis of the male damselfly is shaped like a shovel to ______________________.
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Scoop out other males sperm
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The four types of carnivorous plants are:
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-Sundews
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The genus of the vector of Yellow Fever is ____________.
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Aedes
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Insects that have halteres belong to the order __________.
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Diptera
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Walter Reed showed that mosquitoes vector _______________.
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Yellow fever
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Houseflies have __________ mouthparts.
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Sponging
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Plasmodium is a ___________.
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Protozoan
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________ are often the model animal used in test studies carried out by forensic entomologists.
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Pigs
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In Chicago a man was found guilty of rape after _______________ were found in his ski mask.
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Live caterpillars in burrs
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"Foreign insects" found in a corpse might suggest ____________.
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Corpse relocation
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Insects in a corpse have been used to show that the person was using _______ prior to death.
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Drugs
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The first commercial silk production was in __________.
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China
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