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1. Your friend has decided to go into the silk production business and is raising Monarch butterflies to produce silk. You tell your friend:
   Swallowtail butterflies would be better because they are the state insect and are better adapted to the area.
   Painted lady butterflies have a large silk cocoon and that you know how to grow them.
   To get a moth colony instead.
   

2. What government agency sets limits on the amount of insect parts allowed in our food?
   (click here) The Food and Drug Administration The Food and Agriculture Organization The Animal and Plant Inspection Service

3. Silk is made from insect saliva.
   TF

4. Some cosmetics are made from the royal jelly or beeswax from bee colonies.
   TF

5. "Ring around the Rosie . . " is a nursery rhyme about malaria.
   TF

6. Insect pest problems have increased because of monocultures (large tracts of one crop).
   TF

   

7. The above organisms are urban pests and are:
   (click here) Termites Carpenter ants Fleas Mosquitoes

8. You were just stung by an insect, and it is now in your pants. You are sure that it is a honeybee. You:
   Relax, because bees sting only once and do not leave their stinger imbedded in you.
   Pull off your pants so you don't get stung again by that honeybee.
   Try to remove the stinger with tweezers and don't worry about the honeybee in your pants.
   Get a knife or other sharp object to remove the stinger.
   

   

9. The above organism is in the Order
   (click here) Arthropoda Mandibulata Hemiptera Coleoptera

10. All insects are true bugs, but not all true bugs are insects.
    TF

11. The Kingdom Monera contains the:
    (click here) Bacteria. Fungi. Slime Molds. Viruses.

    

12. The above organism is in the Order:
    (click here) Arachnida Araneida Arabica Acari

13. Hymenopterans are the only social insects.
    TF

14. All spiders have mandibles.
    TF

    

15. Above is a diagram of an insect's body. One of these body parts is most responsible for sensory inputs and feeding. It is:
    (click here) A B C D

    

16. The graph above shows an insect in three stages of its life cycle. What stage is pointed to?
    (click here) Adult stage Larval stage Egg Stage Pupal stage