Level: 2
Category: Nature
Year: 1949

Insects Advanced

  1. Complete the Insects honour.
  2. Add to your current collection 50 insects representing at least 10 different orders (excluding lepidoptera). Labels must include collector's name, date, locality, order, family, and genus. (No carelessly mounted or broken specimens are acceptable.)
  3. How do the special structures and habits of insects fit them so admirably for life?
  4. Tell the life cycle of four insects in four different families.
  5. Name two kinds of social insects. How do they differ from nonsocial insects?
  6. Name at least four insects that carry disease to man, and name at least one disease carried by each.
  7. Make one of the following: construct aerial, sweeping, and aquatic nets.
  8. Construct a trap for night flying insects and use it.
  9. Name at least one insect corresponding to each of the following: aquatic, leaf mining, leaf rolling, wood boring, paper eating, parasites on the body of bird and mammal; or describe the caste of termites and of honey bees; or compare the degrees of intelligence exhibited by a grasshopper or a beetle, and an ant, bee, or wasp.