QUIZTIME QUIZZES

1. Which insect is popular with gardeners because it feeds on aphids?
Ladybird
2. By what name is the insect, the crane fly, more commonly known?
Daddy Long Legs
3. In the insect world, what are brimstones, small coppers and commas?
Butterflies
4. Which common garden insect gets its scientific name from the latin for ‘little scissors’?
Earwig – Forficula
5. What name is given to the egg or young form of a louse or other parasitic insect?
Nit
6. What is the most commonly consumed insect in the world?
Grasshopper
7. Which insect has the best eyesight?
Dragonfly
8. Which insect suffers from ‘Isle of Wight’ disease ?
Bee
9. What insect can live up to nine days without its head?
Cockroach
10. Which insect was once the worst enemy of the potato because it ate the leaves of the plant sometimes destroying whole crops?
Colorado Beetle
11. ‘Garden Tiger’ and ‘Hornet Clearwing’ are species of which insect?
Moth
12. The Cardinal is the largest type of which British insect?
Spider
13. What insect can jump 200 times it’s own height?
Flea
14. Which insect lives in a nest called a vespiary?
Wasp
15. Which insect is the agent for transmitting yellow fever?
Mosquito
16. The female of which insect frequently bites off the head of the male during reproduction?
Praying Mantis
17. An insect’s body is divided into three main parts, the head, the abdomen and which other?
Thorax
18. What type of insect is a Whirligig?
Water Beetle
19. Drosophila melanogaster is the Latin name for which insect?
Fruit fly
20. What is the common name of the insect Lampyris Noctiluca the female of which produces light to attract the male?
Glow Worm

21. The bloodworm is the larval form of what insect?
Gnat or midge
22. What is a plasmid?
A plant-eating insect
23. At what stage of development is the "imago" stage of an insect?
Adult
24. Which insect is regarded as being the fastest animal on six legs?
Cockroach
25. What sort of creatures are firebrats?
Insect similar to Silverfish
26. Which insect has both a king and queen?
Termites
27. What Insect Can Also Be Known As The Devil’s Darning Needle?
Dragonfly
28. What sort of insect is a "cockchafer"?
A Beetle
29. Bluebottle is the alternative name for what insect?
Blowfly
30. Which of the following varieties of insect is the most common, as judged by the number of known species? (dont read Latin names out unless some smartarse requires clarification)? A) Ants (hymenoptera), B) Beetles(coleoptera), C) Bugs (hemiptera), D) Flies (diptera)?
A) Beetles, at 400,000, more than twice as many as their nearest rival
31. Which insect is heard more than it is seen?
Cricket
32. What is the material an insect exoskeleton is made of?
Chitin
33. Rabble, Rainbow and Kaleidoscope are all collective nouns for which insect?
Ladybirds, Butterflies, Wasps
34. Which plant-sucking insect caused huge disruption to the wine industry of Europe in the 19th century?
Phylloxera
35. What common insect helped to spread the ‘black death’ throughout the Middle Ages?
Flea
36. What common insect is known in scottish dialect as clipshears?
Earwig
37. What kind of insect is a Small Postman?
Butterfly
38. What insect gets its name from the Spanish for “little fly”?
Mosquito
39. Which insect is known as la cucaracha in Spanish?
Cockroach
40. What is the largest insect in the world?
The Goliath Beetle

Tiebreaker - The hawkmoth is the fastest flying insect, but what is it’s top speed in MPH?
33.3