ACE Associate Certified Entomologist Exam
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Most common German Cockroach harborage sites? --- correct precise
answer ---Indoors, in warm, moist areas like kitchens and bathrooms
Most common Asian Cockroach harborage sites? --- correct precise
answer ---Outdoors in leaf litter
Most common Oriental Cockroach harborage sites? --- correct precise
answer ---Cool places close to the ground, basements, sewers & crawl
spaces
Most common American Cockroach harborage sites? --- correct
precise answer ---Sewers, basements, wall voids & attics
Most common Smokeybrown Cockroach harborage sites? --- correct
precise answer ---Mostly outdoors in wood piles and tree holes, but
also in attics & soffits.
,Frass --- correct precise answer ---Plant or wood fragments usually
mixed with insect excrement.
Scat --- correct precise answer ---Feces or excrement
Subterranean Termites are the most common builders of? --- correct
precise answer ---Mud tubes
All insects are in the Phylum? --- correct precise answer ---
Arthropoda
All Arthropods have these identifying features? --- correct precise
answer ---Bilateral symmetry, chitinous exoskeletons, segmented
bodies & segmented legs
Scorpions, mites & Spiders belong to which class? --- correct precise
answer ---Arachnida
Scorpions and spiders lack this body part? --- correct precise answer -
--Wings
,Spiders have what 2 body parts? --- correct precise answer ---
Cephalothorax & Abdomen
The slender waist of the spider is called the? --- correct precise
answer ---Pedicel
Adult ticks and spiders have how many legs? --- correct precise
answer ---8
Ticks are completely parasitic feeding on? --- correct precise answer -
--Mammals, birds, & reptiles
Chilopoda --- correct precise answer ---centipedes
Centipedes have how many pairs of legs per body segment? --- correct
precise answer ---One pair
Diplopoda --- correct precise answer ---millipedes
Millipedes have how many pairs of legs per body segment? --- correct
precise answer ---2 pair
, The generous claws of a centipede are called? --- correct precise
answer ---Prehensors or Forcipules
All insects are Hexipods. --- correct precise answer ---True
All Hexipods are insects. --- correct precise answer ---False
Blattodea --- correct precise answer ---Cockroaches
Coleoptera --- correct precise answer ---Beetles
Collembola --- correct precise answer ---Springtails
Dermaptera "skin wings" --- correct precise answer ---Earwigs
Diplura "two tails" --- correct precise answer ---Flies & mosquitoes
Embioptera "lively wings" --- correct precise answer ---Webspinners
Prep Questions with Correct Verified
Detailed Answers latest updated version
2025 Comprehensive Study Support
Most common German Cockroach harborage sites? --- correct precise
answer ---Indoors, in warm, moist areas like kitchens and bathrooms
Most common Asian Cockroach harborage sites? --- correct precise
answer ---Outdoors in leaf litter
Most common Oriental Cockroach harborage sites? --- correct precise
answer ---Cool places close to the ground, basements, sewers & crawl
spaces
Most common American Cockroach harborage sites? --- correct
precise answer ---Sewers, basements, wall voids & attics
Most common Smokeybrown Cockroach harborage sites? --- correct
precise answer ---Mostly outdoors in wood piles and tree holes, but
also in attics & soffits.
,Frass --- correct precise answer ---Plant or wood fragments usually
mixed with insect excrement.
Scat --- correct precise answer ---Feces or excrement
Subterranean Termites are the most common builders of? --- correct
precise answer ---Mud tubes
All insects are in the Phylum? --- correct precise answer ---
Arthropoda
All Arthropods have these identifying features? --- correct precise
answer ---Bilateral symmetry, chitinous exoskeletons, segmented
bodies & segmented legs
Scorpions, mites & Spiders belong to which class? --- correct precise
answer ---Arachnida
Scorpions and spiders lack this body part? --- correct precise answer -
--Wings
,Spiders have what 2 body parts? --- correct precise answer ---
Cephalothorax & Abdomen
The slender waist of the spider is called the? --- correct precise
answer ---Pedicel
Adult ticks and spiders have how many legs? --- correct precise
answer ---8
Ticks are completely parasitic feeding on? --- correct precise answer -
--Mammals, birds, & reptiles
Chilopoda --- correct precise answer ---centipedes
Centipedes have how many pairs of legs per body segment? --- correct
precise answer ---One pair
Diplopoda --- correct precise answer ---millipedes
Millipedes have how many pairs of legs per body segment? --- correct
precise answer ---2 pair
, The generous claws of a centipede are called? --- correct precise
answer ---Prehensors or Forcipules
All insects are Hexipods. --- correct precise answer ---True
All Hexipods are insects. --- correct precise answer ---False
Blattodea --- correct precise answer ---Cockroaches
Coleoptera --- correct precise answer ---Beetles
Collembola --- correct precise answer ---Springtails
Dermaptera "skin wings" --- correct precise answer ---Earwigs
Diplura "two tails" --- correct precise answer ---Flies & mosquitoes
Embioptera "lively wings" --- correct precise answer ---Webspinners
