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The Buzz About Bugs Trivia Quiz

These diverse and versatile creatures can be diverting in their forms and habits. Even if you don't have all the answers here, the questions may be worthwhile for the perspectives they give on the miniature insect worlds that go on around us.

A multiple-choice quiz by JordanW71. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
JordanW71

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
329,707

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

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446

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Question 1 of 10

1. Turtles would love to have this insect group's unique technique for righting themselves when they take a tumble and find themselves on their backs. Hint

Flip-flop beetle

Click beetle

Gymnast beetle

Beat-the-reaper beetle

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Question 2 of 10

2. Hearkening back to a time when people made more of their own repairs, this hovering insect is still sometimes called a "darning needle." Hint

Deer fly

Dragonfly

Damselfly

Horse fly

3. A mimic of the monarch butterfly--which is distasteful to predators from its habit of feeding on milkweed--this similarly orange and black species has darker lines along the edges of its wings. What is its name? Hint

Fritillery

Mourning Cloak

Atlas moth

Viceroy

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Question 4 of 10

4. The immature, wingless, aquatic life stages of these insects are significant sources of food for trout, and "hatches" of the mature, egg-laying adults inspire feeding frenzies--except for which type of "fly"? Hint

Stone fly

May fly

Caddis fly

Robber fly

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Question 5 of 10

5. Honored by the ancient Egyptians as "scarabs", these insects also go by which much more common name? Hint

Dung beetles

Death Watch beetles

Earwigs

Locusts

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Question 6 of 10

6. Pristine mountain streams are ideal habitat for this pest, which can spoil an upland hike by attacking in clouds. Hint

Black flies

Deer flies

Green-headed flies

Cluster flies

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Question 7 of 10

7. In the still of the night, this gentle green giant's quest for a mate can lead it along a scent trail miles long.
Hint

Lunar moth

Luna moth

Lunatic moth

Loony moth

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Question 8 of 10

8. The fireflies seen roaming in the gloaming are all males, seeking what? Hint

A quench from a waterfly

A turn with a glowworm

A date with a flying mate

A spin with a whirligig

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Question 9 of 10

9. When the great British scientist J. B. S. Haldane was asked what he thought the created world showed about its Creator, he replied as follows: Hint

"Complexity of a kind that cannot be accounted for by the theory of evolution."

"I am not speaking as an agnostic when I say that I am still attempting to understand additional facets of that greatest of works of art."

"Purposefulness, an intense purposefulness, though it is beyond us to discern what the ultimate purpose might be."

"An inordinate fondness for beetles."

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Question 10 of 10

10. Insects are commonly referred to as "bugs," but the true bugs are those in what insect order? Hint

Hemiptera

Odanata

Coleoptera

Lepidoptera

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Turtles would love to have this insect group's unique technique for righting themselves when they take a tumble and find themselves on their backs.

Answer: Click beetle

Answer: Click beetles can snap their heads forward past a resistant part of the thorax, with enough force to send them into the air. They keep doing it until they land the right way-something it's easy to show off for friends once you recognize the click beetle family's distinctive shape.

2. Hearkening back to a time when people made more of their own repairs, this hovering insect is still sometimes called a "darning needle."

Answer: Damselfly

The damselfly, which resembles the dragonfly but is much thinner, acquired the folk name "darning needle."

Answer: Viceroy

As this butterfly's name might suggest, the viceroy-who at court was secondary to the monarch or king--is the one that has linked its appearance with that of the monarch butterfly.

Answer: Robber fly

The robber fly, a wide-ranging predator of other insects, is the one not strongly associated with streams. The other three have imitations of their life stages in many fly-fishers' tackle boxes. Trout in particular depend heavily on aquatic insects for their diet, and not so much on worms, as children often suppose.

5. Honored by the ancient Egyptians as "scarabs", these insects also go by which much more common name?

Answer: Dung beetles

Even in a very dry climate, scarabs, a kind of dung beetle, can survive by rolling along a ball of future food in which to lay their eggs.

6. Pristine mountain streams are ideal habitat for this pest, which can spoil an upland hike by attacking in clouds.

Answer: Black flies

A Canadian folk song's refrain gives the correct response: "The black flies, the little black flies,/ Always the black flies everywhere you go/ In North Ontar-eye-oh-eye-oh,/ In North Ontario." And a lot of other places not so far north. Enough of them can become more than a nuisance: unlike mosquitoes, which seek to withdraw blood through tubelike mouth parts, black flies chew into a victim's flesh, creating wounds that can become infected.

7. In the still of the night, this gentle green giant's quest for a mate can lead it along a scent trail miles long.

Answer: Luna moth

If you're lucky enough to encounter a luna moth, let it go on living rather than taking it as a specimen--for a variety of reasons, they and many other intriguing and harmless insects are facing challenges.

8. The fireflies seen roaming in the gloaming are all males, seeking what?

Answer: A turn with a glowworm

The female counterpart of a firefly is a flightless but similarly luminous mate known to many people as a glowworm.

9. When the great British scientist J. B. S. Haldane was asked what he thought the created world showed about its Creator, he replied as follows:

Answer: "An inordinate fondness for beetles."

Haldane's somewhat jocular response took note of the fact that in terms of sheer numbers, beetles are far more prevalent than humans.

10. Insects are commonly referred to as "bugs," but the true bugs are those in what insect order?

Answer: Hemiptera

: Hemiptera is the order of true bugs, a group dating back to the Permian Period (three hundred to two hundred and fifty million years ago) whose numbers include aphids, cicadas, leafhoppers, bedbugs, stinkbugs, and water boatmen. Their durability is indicated by the fact that the Permian Period ended with the largest mass extinction event known to science-yet here they are.
Odonata are the dragonflies and damselflies, Lepidoptera the butterflies and moths, and Coleoptera the beetles.

Source: Author JordanW71

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