425 Final 2015

3. The functional subunit of an insect compound eye.
4. Basal hexapods grouped by a name meaning, “enclosed or inner jaws”.
5. Insect-vectored disease that ultimately caused the death of 200,000 of Napoleon's troops during the invasion of Russia.
8. The ___ industry was founded by Xilingji, the resourceful young wife of the Chinese Emperor.
9. Optimal foraging theory assumes that foragers ___ their energy intake per unit time.
10. Drosophila melanogaster has been instrumental in testing the ___ theory of olfaction.
11. Literally, “plant feeding”.
13. The nutritious structure attached to a male katydid’s spermatophore which females eat following mating.
16. Another word for the slavemaking life history strategy.
17. The “milk” of milkweed.
18. Many insects, particularly weevils, feign death when attacked by a predator. This strategy is called ___.
21. The Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography was first proposed by ___ and Wilson.
23. The genus of hump-winged grigs that is the subject of Kevin’s field research into sexual cannibalism.
24. Larval eyes.
25. Nutritive structures produced by the fungus cultivated by leaf-cutter ants for the ants’ consumption.

1. Phrase uttered by old man about to get tossed on wagon full of plague dead in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”.
2. The insect honoured in Enterprise, Alabama for its role in revolutionizing the town's main production crop.
6. Larvae of many fly families go through metamorphosis within the exoskeleton of the last larval instar. That covering is called the ___.
7. Family of flies that are the first to arrive at a dead body.
12. Amongst other things, this branch of forensic entomology deals with disputes between landlords and tennants.
14. This class of hormones stimulates ecdysis.
15. Speciation model where gene flow between populations is halted because of a geographic barrier.
19. Genetic drift results from ___ survival and reproduction.
20. An insect that feed on detritus is called a __.
22. ___ competition is characteristic of mating systems in which the fastest or most mobile males get most mating opportunities.