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1. Females of this species have piercing and sucking mouthparts and feed on the blood of animals, including people, white males feed on the nectar or plant juices. (19 SE)

2. In which of the following insects do only the females suck blood?

3. This large solitary wasp stores their paralyzed prey in furrows in the ground. Later, they drag them up a tree until they can get enough altitude to fly back to their burrow. When their eggs hatch, they feed on the prey. (19 SE)

4. __________ is the order of walkingsticks and leaf insects.

5. Which of the following's larvae may be found in manure? (19 SE)

6. Insects have _________ pair of legs and _________primary body regions.

7. When an insect has a vestigial mouthpart, that insect _______.

8. These insects typically hold their wings together above and over their abdomen when resting.

9. This insect can usually be found around lights during the night. Many are scavengers, adapted for living in or in the ground. Larvae are usually large white grubs found in the ground. (19 SE)

10. Honeybees use the _______________ dance to communicate the location of food sources from hive.

11. What order of insects is generally considered most important from a medical and veterinary standpoint?

12. The larva of the Dobson fly is called what? (19 SE)

13. What do most male horse flies feed on? (19 SE)

14. Blister beetles: (19 SE)

15. Almost 600 species of this common pest inhabit North America and cause damage to field crops and grasslands. Over 90% of the damage caused to crops is from 5 species. (19 SE)

16. ______ determines whether bee larvae become a queen or worker.

17. ____ is the first principle in pest management. (19 SE)

18. Which insect order contains the crickets and grasshoppers?

19. Approximately how many species of insects have been described to date?

20. A hearing organ of an insect is the ______________.

21. This small green and brown, winged, sucking insect of peculiar shape live on a variety of plants, feeding on the sap. Because of their protective form and color, they are usually noticed only when moving. (19 SE)

22. The responsibility for protecting the state's agricultural, ornamental, and natural plant resources from damaging insects and other pests is assigned to the: (19 SE)

23. Some insects differ from young to adult-only by size and sexual maturity. Which metamorphosis is being described? (19 SE)

24. The father of modern taxonomy who created the binomial system of nomenclature was ________.

25. Insects and their close relatives make up _____% of the known species of animals. (19 SE)