Questions from Bryans Sociality Lecture:

1. Which of these insect orders does not display sub-sociality at all?

a. Isoptera
b. Hymenoptera
c. Blattodia
d. Hemiptera
Answer: a no isopterans are sub-social, because they are ALL eusocial
2. Which of the following statements is correct?
a. Subsociality is 100 million years old, with earliest examples in the order hymenoptera
b. Hemiptera nymphs make vibrations to call the mother in to protect them
c. Cockroaches collect leaves and provision underground chambers for offspring
d. Female burying beetles dig holes and preserve mouse bodies all by themselves for their
offspring
Answer: b, the rest are incorrect
3. Which of the following are not NECESSARY for eusociality to exist?
a. Defense of nests
b. Cooperate brood care
c. Overlap of generations
d. Division of labor
Answer: a nest defense is usually associated with sociality, but not always necessary
Decomposition Lecture with Kyle Wickings:
1. Decomposition is important for:
a. The carbon cycle
b. Soil fertility
c. Soil structure
d. All of the above
Answer: d
2. Wood ant nests display which of the following behaviors?
a. The nests they make contain elevated levels of nutrients
b. Their activity results in 2% of global carbon-dioxide submissions
c. The ants farm fungus to break down organic matter for them
d. The ants farm decomposition by depositing enzymes on top of newly-decomposed
matter
Answer: only a is true, the rest of them are true for leaf-cutter ants or termites
Aquatics Lecture with Ashley:
1. Which of these insect order larval stages are NOT exclusively aquatic?

a.
b.
c.
d.

Collembola
Megaloptera
Ephemeroptera
Odonata
Answer: Collembola a
2. What is a current match of adaptations insects use to breath with an example organism?
a. Hemoglobin in backswimmers
b. Rectal gills in mayflies
c. Plastrons (physical gills that allow them to trap oxygen against the body in diving beetles
d. Behavioral ventilation in dragonflies
Answer: c, for a the real answer is midges, for b the real answer is dragonflies, for d the
answer is dipterans
Tessas lecture on biological control and IPM
1. As a farmer, when should you START to spray your crop to control pests?
a. The pest population is above the Economic Threshold but below the Economic Injury
Level
b. The Economic Injury Level is below the Economic Threshold
c. The pest population is below the Economic Threshold
d. The pest population is above the Economic Injury Level
Answer: a
2. Which of the following associations between types of control and pest management examples is
correct?
a. Cultural control rearrange your holidays and festivals to better coincide with insect
pest outbreaks
b. Physical control sticky traps set out in crops
c. Biological control flame treatment of crops
d. Host plant resistance consumers choose to eat only crop varieties that are naturally
resistant because you cant change plant resistance
Answer: b
3. Which is a benefit of insecticides that we talked about in class?
a. Natural forest preservation
b. Military use
c. More aesthetically pleasing food
d. Only a and b
e. All
Answer: e, all are correct
Ethans lecture on Insects as Vectors of Disease:
1. Which of these historical events was NOT caused by insects?
a. Bubonic plague

b. King Tuts death

c. Diminishment of Napoleans Army
c.Dimishment of Napoleans army
d.Uptick in AIDs in the 1990s
Answer: d
2. Which association between a disease and the order of insect that is its vector is INCORRECT?
a. Chagas Hemiptera
b. Bubonic Plague Siphonaptera
c. Dengue Diptera
d. Loa Loa Hymenoptera
Answer: d
3. Which of the following is true about mosquito biology?
a. Both males and females take blood meals
b. Males sing love-songs to attract females using vibrations they make with their legs
c. Larvae live in water and breathe dispersed oxygen in the water column
d. Mosquitoes are more attracted to some people than others
Answer: d
Questions from invasive insects lecture
1. What is the correct definition of the Rule of 10s from this class
a. 10% invasive insects survive transplantation
b. 10% of survivors become invasive
c. There are only ten major insect orders than can become invasive
d. Both a and b
Answer: d
2. Which of these are characteristics of invasive species?
a. Low reproductive rate
b. Behaviors are static
c. Specialist Diets
d. None of the above
Answer: d
3. Which of these associations about insect pests is accurate?
a. Fire ants are a problem in Ithaca, NY
b. Bed bugs do best in cold weather
c. Asian Tiger Mosquitoes transmit Bubonic plague
d. None of the above

Answer: d