What are the hind legs (metalegs) of a worker honey bee adapted for?
Correct answer A. Pollen collecting
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What type of legs do dragonflies and damselflies have?
Correct answer B. Basket-like
What type of wing-coupling apparatus is found in butterflies?
Correct answer D. Overlapping
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In beetles, weevils and earwigs, what are the thick, hard forewings called?
Correct answer B. Elytra
In true flies, the hind wings are reduced to small knobbed structures. What are these called?
Correct answer C. Halteres
What type of pupa do moths and butterflies have?
Correct answer B. Obtect
What type of larvae do syrphid flies have?
Correct answer A. Platyform
What type of larva has both thoracic legs and abdominal prolegs?
Correct answer B. Eruciform
What is the stirring of a pesticide by an agitator, to stop it separating in the sprayer tank, called?
Correct answer A. Agitation
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In the pesticide and agriculture trade, what does T.S.O. stand for?
Correct answer B. Technical sales officer
What does DDT stand for?
Correct answer B. Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane
Which insecticides are used against lepidopterous (caterpillar) larvae?
Correct answer A. Lufenuron, Chlorfluazuron, Flufenoxuron
Which insecticides are applied against both sucking and chewing insect pests?
Correct answer D. All of the above
What is the dose of a toxicant that kills half of the exposed organisms called?
Correct answer C. LD50
What does the word ‘toxic’ refer to?
Correct answer A. Poison
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What is a substance that damages nerve tissue called?
Correct answer B. Neurotoxin
What is a poison produced by a plant, animal or other living organism called?
Correct answer C. Toxin
What is the substance added to a pesticide that makes the spray stick to the treated surface called?
Correct answer A. Adhesive
What is a chemical added to a pesticide to increase its activity called?
Correct answer D. Activator
What is the death of an insect after a single dose of poison called?
Correct answer C. Acute poisoning