pesticide products for use in the
state and performs quality
assurance analyses of pesticide
formulations?
what is the DPR? the enforcement and investigative authority in
the state for pesticide use, alleged pesticide
misuse, substandard termite treatments, and the
wood infestation report required in most real
estate transactions
what is entomology? study of insects
,what are insects close relatives? ticks, mites, and spiders
what are two ways insects and by direct injury or by injury to our food and fiber
their close relatives cause major
problems to humans?
all insect-related animals belong anthropoda
to which phylum?
what are the distinguishing segmented bodies, paired, segmented
features of anthropods? appendages (legs, antennae), a hard external
skeleton (exoskeleton), similar digestive,
nervous, and circulatory systems
,Arthropods include insects, arachnids (spiders, mites, ticks),
crustaceans (shrimp, crayfish, sowbugs),
millipedes, and centipedes
what are the distinguishing three pairs of legs, three body parts (a head, a
features of insects? thorax, and an abdomen), one pair of antennae,
and usually have one or two pairs of wings as
adults
what are the four basic types of chewing, sponging, piercing-sucking, and
insect mouthparts? siphoning
, what type of mouthpart does a piercing-sucking
mosquito have?
most insects reproduction is: sexual
what is parthogenesis? Development of an egg in the absence of
fertilization by sperm. It is a normal part of the
life cycle in Lizards, insects and crustaceans.
What is metamorphosis? the change that must take place before the
young insect matures into an adult