ENT 201 Exam 2 (NCSU) Questions and
Answers | Study Guide | Grade A+
• subsocial -✓✓insects with some parental care of immatures
• communal -✓✓insects that share a nest but have no parental care of immatures
• quasisocial -✓✓insects that share a nest and cooperate in the care of immatures
• semisocial -✓✓insects that share a nest and cooperate in brood care, division of labor
• eusocial -✓✓insects that share a nest, cooperate in brood vare, reproductive division
of labor, overlapping generations
• isoptera -✓✓which insects are all eusocial?
• hymenoptera -✓✓some of which type of insect are eusocial?
• polymorphism -✓✓same species but look different
• trophallaxis -✓✓sharing of gut contents
• termites and bees -✓✓which insects are mostly vegetarian
• ants -✓✓which insects are both herbivores and carnivores?
• termites -✓✓which insects have a present and mating king?
• ant and honeybee -✓✓which insects have workers that are all sterile females, often
sighted, with some stingers?
• termite -✓✓which insects have nymphs that work?
• ants and honey bees -✓✓which insects have no gut microbes?
• termites -✓✓which insects build with bricks and mortar?
• entomophobia -✓✓an irrational fear of all insects, whether or not they pose a threat or
danger
• delusional parasitosis -✓✓belief that non-existant insects are crawling on or biting
one's body
, • parasite -✓✓an insect that lives in or on another organism at the host's expense
• anoplura -✓✓head lice and nits, cooties and crabs
• acarina -✓✓itch mites and follicale mites
• myiasis -✓✓invasion of living tissue
• hemiptera -✓✓bed bugs, people and chickens
• siphonaptera -✓✓fleas and dogs
• entomophagy -✓✓eating bugs
• 2-3 -✓✓how many pounds of insects does the average American eat?
• 80% -✓✓what percentage of the world's population eat insects by choice?
• orthoptera -✓✓what is the most common insect to eat?
• isoptera -✓✓what is the second most common insect to eat?
• anaphyllaxis -✓✓a severe allergic response in a vertebrate. In the worst case, death
may result
• annual migration -✓✓migration which occurs every year at a predictable time
• apterygota -✓✓primitively wingless insect orders
• asynchronous muscle -✓✓an insect muscle which contracts multiple times due to a
single nerve impulse
• biological disease transmission -✓✓the case in which the agent causing disease must
pass some part of its lifecycle within the vectoring organism
• bioluminescence -✓✓light produced by a living organism
• carnivorous plants -✓✓plants that harvest insects and other arthropods to meet their
demands for nitrogen and other nutrients
• castes -✓✓Different body plans for different jobs, within the same species of eusocial
insect.
Answers | Study Guide | Grade A+
• subsocial -✓✓insects with some parental care of immatures
• communal -✓✓insects that share a nest but have no parental care of immatures
• quasisocial -✓✓insects that share a nest and cooperate in the care of immatures
• semisocial -✓✓insects that share a nest and cooperate in brood care, division of labor
• eusocial -✓✓insects that share a nest, cooperate in brood vare, reproductive division
of labor, overlapping generations
• isoptera -✓✓which insects are all eusocial?
• hymenoptera -✓✓some of which type of insect are eusocial?
• polymorphism -✓✓same species but look different
• trophallaxis -✓✓sharing of gut contents
• termites and bees -✓✓which insects are mostly vegetarian
• ants -✓✓which insects are both herbivores and carnivores?
• termites -✓✓which insects have a present and mating king?
• ant and honeybee -✓✓which insects have workers that are all sterile females, often
sighted, with some stingers?
• termite -✓✓which insects have nymphs that work?
• ants and honey bees -✓✓which insects have no gut microbes?
• termites -✓✓which insects build with bricks and mortar?
• entomophobia -✓✓an irrational fear of all insects, whether or not they pose a threat or
danger
• delusional parasitosis -✓✓belief that non-existant insects are crawling on or biting
one's body
, • parasite -✓✓an insect that lives in or on another organism at the host's expense
• anoplura -✓✓head lice and nits, cooties and crabs
• acarina -✓✓itch mites and follicale mites
• myiasis -✓✓invasion of living tissue
• hemiptera -✓✓bed bugs, people and chickens
• siphonaptera -✓✓fleas and dogs
• entomophagy -✓✓eating bugs
• 2-3 -✓✓how many pounds of insects does the average American eat?
• 80% -✓✓what percentage of the world's population eat insects by choice?
• orthoptera -✓✓what is the most common insect to eat?
• isoptera -✓✓what is the second most common insect to eat?
• anaphyllaxis -✓✓a severe allergic response in a vertebrate. In the worst case, death
may result
• annual migration -✓✓migration which occurs every year at a predictable time
• apterygota -✓✓primitively wingless insect orders
• asynchronous muscle -✓✓an insect muscle which contracts multiple times due to a
single nerve impulse
• biological disease transmission -✓✓the case in which the agent causing disease must
pass some part of its lifecycle within the vectoring organism
• bioluminescence -✓✓light produced by a living organism
• carnivorous plants -✓✓plants that harvest insects and other arthropods to meet their
demands for nitrogen and other nutrients
• castes -✓✓Different body plans for different jobs, within the same species of eusocial
insect.
