ent final 2013

1. Nutritive structures produced by the fungus cultivated by leaf-cutter ants for the ants’ consumption.
4. Basal hexapods grouped by a name meaning, “enclosed or inner jaws”.
5. Many insects, particularly weevils, feign death when attacked by a predator. This strategy is called ___.
6. The functional subunit of an insect compound eye.
9. Drosophila melanogaster has been instrumental in testing the ___ theory of olfaction.
12. Literally, “plant feeding”.
13. Optimal foraging theory assumes that foragers ___ their energy intake per unit time.
14. This class of hormones stimulates ecdysis.
17. Genetic drift results from ___ survival and reproduction.
18. The genus of hump-winged grigs that is the subject of Kevin’s field research into sexual cannibalism.
21. The insect honoured in Enterprise, Alabama for its role in revolutionizing the town's main production crop.
22. Single gene, multiple effects.
23. Larvae of many fly families go through metamorphosis within the exoskeleton of the last larval instar. That covering is called the ___.
24. The “milk” of milkweed.

2. An insect that feed on detritus is called a __.
3. Description of flowers meaning literally, “wind-loving”.
7. Another word for the slavemaking life history strategy.
8. The Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography was first proposed by ___ and Wilson.
10. Phrase uttered by old man about to get tossed on wagon full of plague dead in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”.
11. The nutritious structure attached to a male katydid’s spermatophore which females eat following mating.
15. The ___ industry was founded by Xilingji, the resourceful young wife of the Chinese Emperor.
16. ___ competition is characteristic of mating systems in which the fastest or most mobile males get most mating opportunities.
19. The nutritious structure attached to a plant seed which ants eat and which seems to promote seed dispersal.
20. Larval eyes.