QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

1. In the insect world, what are brimstones, small coppers and commas?
Butterflies
2. Which common garden insect gets its scientific name from the latin for ‘little scissors’?
Earwig – (forficula)
3. What insect can also be known as the devil’s darning needle?
Dragonfly
4. What do female mosquitoes feed on?
Blood
5. What name is given to a male non-working bee?
Drone
6. The Bombyx Mori produces in its cocoon a fine, lustrous fibre used to make a certain high quality cloth. Which cloth?
Silk – The Bombyx Mori is the silkworm
7. By what common name are headlice known?
Nits
8. What is the worlds longest insect?
Borneo stick insect
9. Which insect suffers from ‘Isle of Wight’ disease?
Bee
10. ‘Garden Tiger’ and ‘Hornet Clearwing’ are species of which insect?
Moth
11. The female of which insect frequently bites off the head of the male during reproduction?
Praying Mantis
12. What type of insect is a Whirligig?
Water beetle
13. What is the common name of the insect Lampyris Noctiluca the female of which produces light to attract the male?
Glow Worm
14. The bloodworm is the larval form of what insect?
Gnat or midge
15. What is the worlds fastest moving insect?
Tropical Cockroach
16. The Cardinal is the largest type of which British insect?
Spider
17. The daddy-longlegs is the popular name for which insect?
Crane fly
18. What sort of insect is a "cockchafer"?
Beetle
19. An insect’s body is divided into three main parts, the head, the abdomen and which other?
Thorax
20. What is the most commonly consumed insect in the world?
Grasshopper

21. What is the world’s largest insect?
Acteon Beetle from South America
22. According to the nursery rhyme, which insect is advised urgently to ‘fly away home’?
Ladybird, Ladybird, Fly away home
23. What is the state insect of Texas?
Monarch Butterfly
24. What insect in Spain is known as La Cucaracha?
The Cockroach
25. The tumblebug is an alternative name for which insect?
Dung Beetle
26. Which insect is the symbol of female potency?
The Honey Bee
27. Which insect has “weaver and driver” varieties?
Ant’s
28. What insect has a king as well as a queen?
Termites
29. Which plant-sucking insect caused huge disruption to the wine industry of Europe in the 19th century?
Phylloxera
30. Which of the following varieties of insect is the most common, as judged by the number of known species - A) Ants (hymenoptera), B) Beetles(coleoptera), C) Bugs (hemiptera), D) Flies (diptera)?
Beetles, at 400,000, more than twice as many as their nearest rival
31. Rabble, Rainbow and Kaleidoscope are all collective nouns for which insect?
Ladybirds, Butterflies, Wasps
32. What insect uses a substance called propolis to construct its dwelling?
Bee
33. An aggregation of any insect is usually referred to as what?
A Colony
34. What common insect is known in scottish dialect as clipshears?
Earwig
35. What insect can live up to nine days without its head?
Cockroach
36. What insect spreads Sleeping Sickness?
The Tse Tse Fly
37. What is the only insect that can turn its head?
Praying Mantis
38. As seen in long grass how is the froth made by the froghopper insect commonly known?
Cuckoo spit
39. Siverline bird wing, vanished arrow and white dragon tail are all species of which insect?
Butterfly
40. Which insect is popular with gardeners because it feeds on aphids?
Ladybird

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