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Across
  1. 3. The insect honoured in Enterprise, Alabama for its role in revolutionizing the town's main production crop.
  2. 4. Insect-vectored disease that ultimately caused the death of 200,000 of Napoleon's troops during the invasion of Russia.
  3. 6. Drosophila melanogaster has been instrumental in testing the ___ theory of olfaction.
  4. 8. Many insects, particularly weevils, feign death when attacked by a predator. This strategy is called ___.
  5. 10. Literally, “plant feeding”.
  6. 12. This class of hormones stimulates ecdysis.
  7. 17. Optimal foraging theory assumes that foragers ___ their energy intake per unit time.
  8. 18. Nutritive structures produced by the fungus cultivated by leaf-cutter ants for the ants’ consumption.
  9. 22. Larvae of many fly families go through metamorphosis within the exoskeleton of the last larval instar. That covering is called the ___.
  10. 23. Family of flies that are the first to arrive at a dead body.
  11. 25. ___ competition is characteristic of mating systems in which the fastest or most mobile males get most mating opportunities.
Down
  1. 1. Speciation model where gene flow between populations is halted because of a geographic barrier.
  2. 2. Basal hexapods grouped by a name meaning, “enclosed or inner jaws”.
  3. 5. Phrase uttered by old man about to get tossed on wagon full of plague dead in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”.
  4. 7. An insect that feed on detritus is called a __.
  5. 9. The nutritious structure attached to a male katydid’s spermatophore which females eat following mating.
  6. 11. Larval eyes.
  7. 13. The ___ industry was founded by Xilingji, the resourceful young wife of the Chinese Emperor.
  8. 14. Genetic drift results from ___ survival and reproduction.
  9. 15. The functional subunit of an insect compound eye.
  10. 16. Another word for the slavemaking life history strategy.
  11. 19. Amongst other things, this branch of forensic entomology deals with disputes between landlords and tennants.
  12. 20. The genus of hump-winged grigs that is the subject of Kevin’s field research into sexual cannibalism.
  13. 21. The Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography was first proposed by ___ and Wilson.
  14. 24. The “milk” of milkweed.