INSECTS QUESTIONS
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What annelid has no lungs, but can have up to 10 hearts?
The larvae of what ancient insects, of the order Odonata, move through the water thanks to their jet-powered anuses?
On December 11, 1919, Enterprise, Alabama, erected a monument to what pest, whose devouring of local cotton crops led to the town adopting the more profitable farming of peanuts?
Italians once thought the tarantella could cure insanity from the bite of a wolf spider (aka a tarantula). What was the tarantella?
Several canisters housing petri dishes containing hundreds of Caenorhabditis elegans survived what 2003 disaster?
The strongest animal can carry 850 times its weight. That's like one of us tossing around a tank. What beetle is this?
What kind of animal would live in a paper nest called a vespiary?
According to Mental Floss magazine, how many mosquito bites would it take to deplete your entire body's supply of blood?
Often confused with damselflies, what insects are sometimes called mosquito hawks?
The poisonous brown recluse spider is also known by what name, thanks to the marking on the top surface of its cephalothorax (fused head and thorax)?
True bugs are in the order Hemiptera, so the June bug ain't no real bug. What is it?
In 1956, 26 African killer bees escaped from a breeding lab in what country and headed north toward Texas?
How do crickets chirp?
What word can both describe the larvae of such insects as grasshoppers, as well as the mythical Greek maidens who lived in mountains, forests, trees and waters?
This insect's name can also mean to pester somebody with private communications, just as the insect supposedly pestered you by tunneling into your ear when you slept. What is it?
Distressingly common in Florida and in coastal areas of the southeastern United States, what is the palmetto bug?
The gypsy moth avoids prey by looking just like what foul-tasting "regal" butterfly?
They meant it as a compliment. Two former Cornell University entomologists named new species in the genus Agathidium: A. bushi (for the US president), A. cheneyi (for his VP) and A. rumsfeldi (for his defense secretary). What are they?
Ba humbugi isn't a bug. It's a snail from Mba Island in Fiji. And it was named for what Dickens character's catchphrase?
Polemistus chewbacca and Polemistus vaderi are wasps named for characters in what set of movies?
The larvae of what ancient insects, of the order Odonata, move through the water thanks to their jet-powered anuses?
On December 11, 1919, Enterprise, Alabama, erected a monument to what pest, whose devouring of local cotton crops led to the town adopting the more profitable farming of peanuts?
Italians once thought the tarantella could cure insanity from the bite of a wolf spider (aka a tarantula). What was the tarantella?
Several canisters housing petri dishes containing hundreds of Caenorhabditis elegans survived what 2003 disaster?
The strongest animal can carry 850 times its weight. That's like one of us tossing around a tank. What beetle is this?
What kind of animal would live in a paper nest called a vespiary?
According to Mental Floss magazine, how many mosquito bites would it take to deplete your entire body's supply of blood?
Often confused with damselflies, what insects are sometimes called mosquito hawks?
The poisonous brown recluse spider is also known by what name, thanks to the marking on the top surface of its cephalothorax (fused head and thorax)?
True bugs are in the order Hemiptera, so the June bug ain't no real bug. What is it?
In 1956, 26 African killer bees escaped from a breeding lab in what country and headed north toward Texas?
How do crickets chirp?
What word can both describe the larvae of such insects as grasshoppers, as well as the mythical Greek maidens who lived in mountains, forests, trees and waters?
This insect's name can also mean to pester somebody with private communications, just as the insect supposedly pestered you by tunneling into your ear when you slept. What is it?
Distressingly common in Florida and in coastal areas of the southeastern United States, what is the palmetto bug?
The gypsy moth avoids prey by looking just like what foul-tasting "regal" butterfly?
They meant it as a compliment. Two former Cornell University entomologists named new species in the genus Agathidium: A. bushi (for the US president), A. cheneyi (for his VP) and A. rumsfeldi (for his defense secretary). What are they?
Ba humbugi isn't a bug. It's a snail from Mba Island in Fiji. And it was named for what Dickens character's catchphrase?
Polemistus chewbacca and Polemistus vaderi are wasps named for characters in what set of movies?