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Preserving Insects! Trivia Quiz

Everything you never wanted to know about catching and preserving insects but didn't think to ask.

A multiple-choice quiz by quogequox. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
quogequox

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
60,854

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
5

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
2 / 5

Plays
1078

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 5

1. What would you use an aspirator for? Hint

Breathing after a bite from a deadly spider

As a fixative

Spreading of a killing agent

Collecting small insects

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Question 2 of 5

2. What is a beating tray? Hint

storage tray for entomological pins

a device to defend oneself from wasps and bees

a tray in which to collect insects

a tray for displaying insects

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Question 3 of 5

3. Insects belong to the Phlyum Arthropoda. Which other class below also belongs in this phylum? Hint

Plankton

Chordata

Myriapoda

Mammalia

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Question 4 of 5

4. Where should you pin a beetle? Hint

through the right wing

through the thorax

through the head

through the back legs

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Question 5 of 5

5. The cockroach is a member of which order of Insecta? Hint

Megaloptera

Phasmatodea

Blattodea

Dermaptera

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What would you use an aspirator for?

Answer: Collecting small insects

An Aspirator is two rubber tubes connected to a jar. Place one tube end over a delicate insect and the suck the other tube. Voila- the insect is sucked painlessly into the jar.

2. What is a beating tray?

Answer: a tray in which to collect insects

By placing a beating tray in a bush or on the ground and -yep you guessed it, beating the tree or bush- insects will fall onto the tray for collection.

3. Insects belong to the Phlyum Arthropoda. Which other class below also belongs in this phylum?

Answer: Myriapoda

Myriapoda class is that of millipedes and centipedes and stuff.

4. Where should you pin a beetle?

Answer: through the right wing

Beetles should be pinned down through the right wing so the pin emerges between the base of the second and third legs! Now you know.

5. The cockroach is a member of which order of Insecta?

Answer: Blattodea

Coincidently its not unlike the sound they make when stepped on.

Source: Author quogequox

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