ENTOMOLOGY questions with verified answers
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Ans✓✓✓ Beekeepers split their hives and two, with one keeping the
old queen.
According to a Pueblo myth, how did a beetle's behavior cause the
distribution of stars in the Milky Way and explain the beetle's current
behavior? Ans✓✓✓ Beetle given stars to scatter but he spilled them
and he's still ashamed. Reason by we see Milky way because stars are
not evenly distributed.
According to legend, what did the Empress Hsi Ling Shi so (who lived
5000 years ago) contribute to the discovery of silk and its application to
using it to make fabric? Ans✓✓✓ Introduces the basic processes in silk
fabric production: harvesting the fibers, reeling the silk, silkworm
cultivation, and weaving looms.
After WWI why did pesticide use remain high? Ans✓✓✓ Insects were a
matter of national security.
Ant farm: get ants mainly from Idaho. Ants only live for about a week
but that's a week to watch ants dig their tunnels. Idaho ants like to
excavate; real big so you can see them. Ans✓✓✓ Ant farm from gel:
gel serves as food and water source. Used for watching ants in space.
,Bees cannot survive in almond orchards in the central valley on their
after the almond bloom is over. Why is that? Ans✓✓✓ There's nothing
else to pollinate.
Both Maria Sybilla Merian painted insects. What was she trying to
convey in her paintings? Ans✓✓✓ Information about the plants and
insects. Transformation: includes the different stages of whatever
insect she'd dealing with.
Both the fire ant and gypsy moth programs failed. What factors in their
management are similar? Ans✓✓✓ Didn't test their stuff/ know
anything about the insect biology or even put in effort to find out.
Dweebs.
Butterflies live only a few weeks but are very popular in exhibits. How
are the butterflies managed so that there will always be fresh
butterflies for viewing? What can be provided to help the butterflies
live longer? Ans✓✓✓ Plan a schedule and order pupae to be delivered
at intervals. Arrange pupae so the butterflies will be able to emerge
safely. Release them into the insectarium when they are fully expanded
and hardened. Have food.
By definition, what is a pandemic? Ans✓✓✓ When a deadly disease
becomes widespread across multiple continents. Like an epidemic but
worse.
, Charlotte's Web is one of the bestselling children's books of all time,
and it is also loved by adults. What about it or why has a story about a
pig and a spider connected, resonated with readers for more than 60
years? Ans✓✓✓ Friendship on earth, affection, life and death all
themes that have resonated.
Comparing life cycles of holo- and hemimetabolous insects, what are
two major aspects that differ? Ans✓✓✓ Body plan and what they eat.
Describe the life cycle of a hemimetabolous insect (the stages from egg
to adult). Ans✓✓✓ Adult and larvae pretty much the same, feed on the
same things.
Differential immunity of Europeans and Africans to vivax malaria may
have provided an economic case for slavery of Africans. What was the
basis of the Africans' immunity to vivax malaria? Why did that immunity
make Africans less expensive (more economical) workers? Ans✓✓✓
Colony building and land clearing required a lot of manual labor, which
was either done by indentured servants or slaves. Indentured servant
cost little and are same language and culture. Slaves are more
expensive and have a different language and culture. However,
servants tended to get sick and African slaves were 97% immune to
malaria due to Duffy "defect".
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Ans✓✓✓ Beekeepers split their hives and two, with one keeping the
old queen.
According to a Pueblo myth, how did a beetle's behavior cause the
distribution of stars in the Milky Way and explain the beetle's current
behavior? Ans✓✓✓ Beetle given stars to scatter but he spilled them
and he's still ashamed. Reason by we see Milky way because stars are
not evenly distributed.
According to legend, what did the Empress Hsi Ling Shi so (who lived
5000 years ago) contribute to the discovery of silk and its application to
using it to make fabric? Ans✓✓✓ Introduces the basic processes in silk
fabric production: harvesting the fibers, reeling the silk, silkworm
cultivation, and weaving looms.
After WWI why did pesticide use remain high? Ans✓✓✓ Insects were a
matter of national security.
Ant farm: get ants mainly from Idaho. Ants only live for about a week
but that's a week to watch ants dig their tunnels. Idaho ants like to
excavate; real big so you can see them. Ans✓✓✓ Ant farm from gel:
gel serves as food and water source. Used for watching ants in space.
,Bees cannot survive in almond orchards in the central valley on their
after the almond bloom is over. Why is that? Ans✓✓✓ There's nothing
else to pollinate.
Both Maria Sybilla Merian painted insects. What was she trying to
convey in her paintings? Ans✓✓✓ Information about the plants and
insects. Transformation: includes the different stages of whatever
insect she'd dealing with.
Both the fire ant and gypsy moth programs failed. What factors in their
management are similar? Ans✓✓✓ Didn't test their stuff/ know
anything about the insect biology or even put in effort to find out.
Dweebs.
Butterflies live only a few weeks but are very popular in exhibits. How
are the butterflies managed so that there will always be fresh
butterflies for viewing? What can be provided to help the butterflies
live longer? Ans✓✓✓ Plan a schedule and order pupae to be delivered
at intervals. Arrange pupae so the butterflies will be able to emerge
safely. Release them into the insectarium when they are fully expanded
and hardened. Have food.
By definition, what is a pandemic? Ans✓✓✓ When a deadly disease
becomes widespread across multiple continents. Like an epidemic but
worse.
, Charlotte's Web is one of the bestselling children's books of all time,
and it is also loved by adults. What about it or why has a story about a
pig and a spider connected, resonated with readers for more than 60
years? Ans✓✓✓ Friendship on earth, affection, life and death all
themes that have resonated.
Comparing life cycles of holo- and hemimetabolous insects, what are
two major aspects that differ? Ans✓✓✓ Body plan and what they eat.
Describe the life cycle of a hemimetabolous insect (the stages from egg
to adult). Ans✓✓✓ Adult and larvae pretty much the same, feed on the
same things.
Differential immunity of Europeans and Africans to vivax malaria may
have provided an economic case for slavery of Africans. What was the
basis of the Africans' immunity to vivax malaria? Why did that immunity
make Africans less expensive (more economical) workers? Ans✓✓✓
Colony building and land clearing required a lot of manual labor, which
was either done by indentured servants or slaves. Indentured servant
cost little and are same language and culture. Slaves are more
expensive and have a different language and culture. However,
servants tended to get sick and African slaves were 97% immune to
malaria due to Duffy "defect".
