What is the study of the form and structure of insects called?
Correct answer C. Insect morphology
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Entomology MCQs
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What are the few species of ants and termites that depend on cultivated plants called?
Correct answer A. Agricultural insects
An organism that lives on or inside another living organism and obtains nourishment from it is called what?
Correct answer D. Parasite
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What are insects that are active during daylight hours called?
Correct answer B. Diurnal insects
Aphids are an example of which type of reproduction?
Correct answer D. Viviparous
Which of these is an example of a polyphagous insect?
Correct answer D. Helicoverpa armigera
What are insects that feed on only one type of food called?
Correct answer B. Monophagous
What is the type of diapause occurring in summer or during drought called?
Correct answer C. Aestivation
What is a physiological state of arrested development in insects that occurs regardless of environmental conditions called?
Correct answer B. Diapause
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What is the young of a fly called?
Correct answer C. Maggot
What are the young of exopterygote insects that live in water called?
Correct answer B. Naiad
What is the resting stage in endopterygote insects called?
Correct answer C. Pupa
What are insects whose wings develop externally called?
Correct answer C. Exopterygota
What is the practice of eating members of one’s own species called?
Correct answer A. Cannibalism
What is any organism that harms or damages humans, directly or indirectly, called?
Correct answer A. Pest
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Insects belong to which class?
Correct answer D. Hexapoda
What is the type of diapause that occurs in winter called?
Correct answer D. Hibernation
What is the form of an insect after it has completed metamorphosis called?
Correct answer B. Imago
What is a legless larva of the Coleoptera, with a tiny head and few sense organs, called?
Correct answer B. Grub
What are the young of terrestrial hemimetabolous insects (Exopterygota) called?
Correct answer B. Nymph