SOS Final Exam QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED (Newest 2025) What materials do arthropods use to build their structures? - Correct Answers ✅Paper, cement, mud, wax, silk, leaves, sticks, stones, sand, poop, spit, entire bodies.Why do they build structures? - Correct Answers ✅to protect eggs, larvae, adults; chambers for pupal; nests, homes, retreats, traps for prey What materials do termites use to build their mounds and/or tunnels? - Correct Answers ✅soil, mud, chewed wood/cellulose, saliva, and feces What is so unique about magnetic termites? - Correct Answers ✅They construct angled, plate-shaped mounds to catch the sun on their eastern faces.Which arthropod and hexapod orders use silk as a building material? - Correct Answers ✅Arachnida, Lepidotera, and embioptera Where are silk glands located on Embioptera (the webspinners)? - Correct Answers ✅In the tarsal To what order do cochineal insects belong? - Correct Answers ✅Hemiptera 1 / 3
SOS Final Exam QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED (Newest 2025) Where can you find cochineal in the Sonoran Desert? - Correct Answers ✅On prickly pear cacti.What is the purpose of galls? - Correct Answers ✅Serve both nutritional and protective roles What kind of structure do caddisflies build? - Correct Answers ✅Cases to camouflage, protect, weigh themselves down, and for respiration.What is so unique about army and drive ants nest? - Correct Answers ✅They construct their nests out of living worker ants. They use their own bodies to construct bridges and rafts.Which two social insect orders contain the most accomplished architects? - Correct Answers ✅Hexapoda and Arachnida Why do potter wasps build pots? - Correct Answers ✅She paralyzes a caterpillar, places it in a brood cell, lays an egg in the pot and then removes the bottle neck and closes the entrance.Where do honeybees get the wax they use to construct their homes? - Correct Answers ✅Their honey 2 / 3
SOS Final Exam QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED (Newest 2025) What is cochineal used for? - Correct Answers ✅It is used to color food, like ice cream, yogurts, fruit juices, candies, etc.What insect order produces shellac? - Correct Answers ✅Hempitera In what ways are insects nutritious? - Correct Answers ✅A good source of protein, vitamins, minerals, and fats. Most insects are good sources of iron and zinc, and contain vitamins like thiamine and riboflavin.What insect order produces silk as a fiber for commercial fabrics? - Correct Answers ✅Lepidopteran In which country was silk production first developed? - Correct Answers ✅China How is moth silk produced? - Correct Answers ✅They cocoon themselves, then they are steamed or baked, then they are dipped in hot water to loosen the tightly woven silk filaments, next they are unwound, and then they're twisted together to make a thread.
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