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Welcome to #blackinento trivia night!!
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1
Who started the Black Entomologist listserv?
Dr. Pedro Barbosa
Entomological Society of America
The Hymenopterists Society
2
The insect pictured above is a
wasp
bee
true bug
fly
3
When orthopterans (grasshoppers) swarm/aggregate, entomologists call them
annoying
plague
jumpers
gregarious
4
Some stoneflies do ___ to attract a mate
Flips
Push-ups
Elaborate dances
Bird-like calls
5
What percentage of a mormon cricket's weight is transferred during mating?
27%
11%
1%
45%
6
In social insects, an individual worker belonging to a subcaste involved in colony defense
soldier
drone
warrior
worker
7
What is the furthest south that a dragonfly has been found?
Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, 54.8054° S, 68.3242° W
Santiago, Chile, 33.4489° S, 70.6693° W
Hobart, Tasmania, 42.8821° S, 147.3272° E
8
For every pound of human beings in the world there are __ pounds of insects
1 million
2
300
5000
9
How many cockroach species are there?
100000
30000
less than 1000
12400
10
Which country has observed the least number of insects?
Greenland
USA
Sweden
Iceland
11
Which is the longest insect?
Titan beetle
Chan's megastick (stick insect)
Saint Helena Earwig
White witch (moth)
12
How many midges (Chironomidae) might there be in a single swarm?
50 million
900000
45000
1 billion
13
In the 1978 movie ‘The Swarm’ what is the swarm describing?
Locust
Bees
Spiders
Flies
14
Which is the only known insect to develop in crude oil?
House Fly
Oil beetle (blister beetle)
Petroleum fly
Twisted wing parasites
15
What does apterous mean?
having wings
adaptable
wingless
ancient insect morphology
16
What were the names of the first spiders in space?
Peter and Parker
Arabella and Anita
Charlotte and Hyacinthe
Aragog and Anansi
17
Which insect has the longest life span?
Splendor beetles
Periodical cicadas
African termite queens
18
The tough, leathery polysaccharide in the arthropod procuticle
collum
chitin
carotene
19
What was the name of the first African American EntSoc president?
Alvin Simmons
Margaret Collins
Charles Henry Turner
George Washington Carver
20
When did the first Black woman earn an entomology PhD degree, and who was it?
Margaret Collins, 1923
Susan Ellridge, 1917
Margaret Collins, 1950
Elenor Allron, 1957
21
In the 1998 movie a Bugs life what do the ants and circus bugs build together
A giant grasshopper
A fake bird
A peach
Beautiful memories
22
The EPT index is used as a bioindicator of environmental health. Which 3 orders compose EPT?
Ephemeroptera, Thysanoptera, Plecoptera
Embiidina, Thysanoptera, Phasmotodea
Embiidina, Trichoptera, Psocoptera
Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera, Plecoptera
23
When was Boll Weevil Blues, about cotton pest, Anthonomus grandis, written. Who popularized it?
1920s, popularized by Leadbelly
1900, popularized by Billie Holiday
1850, popularized by Howling Wolf
1965, popularized by the four tops
24
What is the heaviest insect recorded?
Atlas moth
Giant burrowing cockroach
Giant wētā
Goliath beetle larva
25
What is the name of the air storage structure that diving beetles use to breathe underwater?
spiracular air pouch
compressable gill
Butt bubble
O2 transporter
26
Which insect is the fastest (on land/running only)
Fleas
Army ants
Silver fish
Australian tiger beetles
27
How many species of odonata are there?
500
10000
6300
100000
28
What is the common name of a dragonfly species in the family Aeschinidae, Anax junius
Green Goddess
Quick swifts
Darning Needle
Lord of June
29
Which country has the highest recorded diversity of insects?
USA
Brazil
Nigeria
Ecuador
30
Arctic woolly bear caterpillars grow so slowly it can take up to ___ years to become moths
18
7
2
20
31
Insect biting tools; the first pair of jaws; derived from the fourth head segment
proboscis
gnashers
teeth
mandibles
32
Which of the following suckle their young?
Dung Beetles
Cockroaches
Boll Weevils
Katydids
33
How fast, approximately, can dragonflies fly? (mph)
30
60
15
100
