Entomology Trivia Questions
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What is the common name for the creature that hatches from a butterfly's egg?
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caterpillar
What type of insect is the 'Japanese' variety that belongs to the scarab family?
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beetle
What type of beautiful winged insect is the Red Admiral, a brush-footed variety?
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butterfly
In locusts, the tympanic organs located on the abdomen are used for which sense?
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hearing
How many legs does an ant have?
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6
What type of beetle includes species such as pea, green, grain, and boll?
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weevil
What large black and yellow bee is known for operating at higher altitudes than other bees?
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bumblebee
The firefly is actually not a true fly but belongs to which group of insects that also includes the junebug?
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beetle
What is the secretion that contains a digestive enzyme in some flies and an anticoagulant in bloodsuckers?
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saliva
Which bioluminescent insect species exhibits its own unique flashing pattern?
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firefly
What 'slim' feature of wasps allows their abdomen to move freely and makes stinging easier?
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waist
What is the largest insect in the world that is not the monarch but the Queen Alexandria birdwing?
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butterfly
What fiber does an insect called a webspinner produce as it moves back and forth?
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silk
How many wings do true flies, such as houseflies and tsetse flies, have?
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2
What adult insect does the wooly-bear caterpillar become?
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moth
What type of insect is a scarab?
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beetle
What are the small wasps of the family Vespidae, known for their colorful appearance, commonly called?
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yellowjackets
What is the stage of a bee's development that occurs between the larva and adult stages?
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pupa
What is the third stage in the life cycle of butterflies and moths, following the larva stage?
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pupa
What type of insect is the June bug, which is related to the Scarab of ancient Egypt?
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beetle
What type of insect includes the species ctenocephalides canis and ctenocephalides felis?
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flea
What insect has a female gypsy species that possesses wings but cannot fly?
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moth
How many wings does a mosquito have?
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2
What stage of metamorphosis is a maggot of a fly in?
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larva
What feature can you examine to distinguish termites from ants, where ants possess a slim one similar to wasps?
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waist
What kind of insect has been reported to have the greatest number of legs, with a total of 750 legs?
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millipede
What type of insect has a springlike device between its thorax and abdomen that allows it to jump and is known as the click type?
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beetle
What fly that resembles a dragonfly and folds its wings back at rest is often found 'in distress'?
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damselfly
What insect, whose name comes from the Spanish for 'little fly', has hypodermic mouth parts to pierce skin?
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mosquito
What insect has males with jaws that look like antlers?
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beetle
Wireworms are the slender larvae of the 'click' type of what insect?
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beetle
What substance oozes from a bee's pores and forms tiny flakes on the outside of its abdomen?
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wax
What species of insect includes types like rhinoceros, Hercules, and Goliath?
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beetle
What type of insect is the tumblebug, which deposits its eggs in dung?
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beetle
What is the middle body section of an insect, which lies between the head and the abdomen?
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thorax
What is the name of the middle body part of an insect, located between the head and abdomen?
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thorax
What is the process called in which a caterpillar turns into a butterfly?
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metamorphosis
What 'colorful' insect found on land feeds on starchy substances?
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silverfish
What is a wingless insect with three taillike appendages that feeds on wallpaper paste and book bindings?
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silverfish
What insect is also known as a shad fly or dayfly and is unique for going through a subimago or sub-adult stage?
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mayfly
While weevils are a destructive type of this insect, what insect is the ladybird considered beneficial?
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beetle
What insect is also known as the Devil's darning needle?
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dragonfly
What part of a grasshopper's body does it rub against its leg to produce the sound known as stridulation?
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wing
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