What am I Called? Part 2 | Insect Info 2 | Pot Luck | Crustacean Parts | Tick Diseases |
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What are brine shrimp?
these crustaceans live in extremely salty water
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What is the thorax?
the middle section of an insect’s body
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What is the exoskeleton?
the outside skeleton of an arthropod
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What are swimmerets?
the part of a crustacean that is used for swimming, holding eggs, and holding prey
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What is Lyme disease?
a disease that is transmitted by a deer tick
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What is the Luna Moth?
they use their eyespots to scare predators
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What is two?
the number of pairs of wings that most insects have
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Who is the queen?
the member of a honeybee colony exists primarily to lay eggs
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What are chelipeds?
a crustacean’s claw-tipped legs
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What is Rocky Mountain spotted fever?
a disease that is transmitted by a wood tick
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What are brush-footed butterflies?
the largest family of butterflies
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What are spinnerets?
silk-spinning organs from which the silk leaves the larva
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What is egg, nymph, and adult?
this is the correct order of incomplete metamorphosis
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What are maxillipeds?
these appendages, also known as “jaw feet”, are specially designed to hold food as the decapod chews
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What is an entomologist?
a zoologist who studies insects
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What are spiracles?
air enters an insect’s respiratory system through these openings
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What is egg, larva, pupa, and adult?
this is the correct order of complete metamorphosis
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What is a centipede?
a wormlike arthropod that has long antennae, a flattened body, and one pair of appendages (walking legs) per segment, all except the first set which are maxillipeds that are used to inject venom into prey is called
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What is a proboscis?
a tubular sucking organ used by a fully developed adult butterfly or moth for drinking nectar from flowers
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What is mutualism?
the relationship in which two organisms benefit from each other
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