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What are the 4 types of feeders, and what do they eat?
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1.Detritivores (decaying,organic material) dung/carrion
2.Herbivores (veggies) 3.Fungivores (fungi) 4.Carnivore |
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What are mycangia/myotomes?
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pouches to keep spores in
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Ambrosia beetles or lymexylonids do what to wood?
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Innoculate wood with fungi, spreads american/dutch elm disease.
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Half of all insects are what type of feeder?
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Herbivorous
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What is MFO?
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Mixed function oxidizers. Cleansed through fatbody
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What does polyphagus/oligophagus and monophagus mean?
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Many foods/several species within genus and only 1 host.
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What are the 5 types of "eating" insects?
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1.chewing
2.sucking(transmit viri/feed on phloem) 3.miners and borers (eat wood/cambium) 4.seed predators(bruchid beetles) 5.Galls (hide in host and form a tumor on plant. |
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Carnivores are also known as?
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Predators
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What are 5 attributes to carnivores and an example of each?
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1.Agility and speed (odanodata, wasps and robberflies)
2.Stealth (mantids/dragonfly nymphs) 3.Trappers/filter feeders (anything that spears) 4.Gasers(berothids [lacewings]) 5.mommies/children (wasps supplying food) |
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What is a geometrid?
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Inchworm
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What is the difference between a parasite and a parasitoid?
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Parasites feed on host, parasitoids eventually kill host.
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Give an example of parasatoid behaviour.
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Tachinida (hairy flies) lays eggs on leaf, catapiller eats then is consumed by larvae.
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Are most wasps parasitic?
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Yes
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What is phoresy?
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process of being transported without feeding on host. Hitchhikers.
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What does the term hyperparasitism mean?
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a parasite feeding on a specific parasite.
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