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Species that are on their own from the time they're oviposited untildeath, except during mating
Solitary
Species that live together, sometimes in a limited stages
Gregarious
Keep eggs in mud chambers, M guards while F provisions
Mud daubers
Truly social species, and what are the three requirements to be a truly social species?
Eusocial, overlap of generations, division of labor, indiscriminate care of young
Latin: Polymorphism
(many, much/form)
Latin:Polyethism
(many, much/custom, habit)
Orders of social insects
Thysanoptera, Homoptera, Hymenoptera, Isoptera
These pheromones helps locate food
Trial Pheromones
Pheromones that are signaled to prevent colony disruption or danger
Alarm Pheromones
An arthopod species associated with social insects either a mutalistic relationship, or invades the colony
Inquilines
Latin: Inquilines
a tenant
Latin: Solitary
alone
Latin: Gregarious
(a flock, herd; collect)
Isoptera life cycle
Hemimetabola
Are isoptera diploid or haploid?
diploid
What are the three roles of the caste system in isoptera
workers, soldiers, and reproductives
Latin: Oral Trophallaxis
(nourish, food/crosswise)
the eating of excrement
Coprophagy
The three types of isoptera soldiers
nasute, phragmatic, mandibulate
Latin: Nasute
the nose
Latin: Phargmatic
a fence, partition
Latin: mandibulate
jaw
A queen swollen with eggs
physogastric
a pheromone that is produced from soldiers to maintain worker conditions
Soldier pheromone
a social pheromone that prevents the production of new queens
Queen substance
A place where termites are housed
termitaria
mutualism of providing substances for protection
trophobionts
Latin: Trophobionts
nourish/food
Hymenoptera life cycle
Holometabolous
Are Hymenoptera haploid or diploid?
haplodidpoidy
The male doesn't participate in the conony, formed by a single female
haplometrosis
Latin: haplometrosis
single/mother
a colony formed by multiple queens
pleometrosis
Latin: pleometrosis
more/mother
the stalk of primative uncovered nests that wasps cover in ant repellents
petioles
caste of ants
minors, majors, and reproductives
Latin: trophallaxis
nourish, food/crosswise
ants that have gravel nests with vertical migrations for thermoregulation
harvester ants
ants that live in hollow twigs or thorns
arboreal
army of ants that don't have a nest
bivouac
latin; bivouac
watch, patrol
chasing down predators when distrubed
absconds
the scientific word for camouflage
cryptic coloration
using objects from the environment to stick to yourself for camouflage
adventitious coloration
warning colors
aposematic coloration
playing dead
reflex immobility
using pressure to push out hemolymph
reflex bleeding
a defense mechanism used bt caterpillars to release noxious odors
osmeteria
who was the scientist who proposed runaway sexual selection
Fisher
mating system: 1 female, many males
polyandry
mating system: 1 male, many females
polygyny
mating system: life long/seasonal pairings
monogamy
mating system: multiple mates
promiscuity
what insects swarm courtship
mayflies and flies
specialized secretory scales that secrete pheromones
androconia
tubular extentions in the abdomen that can be popped out release pheromones
scent pencils
the mechanism of sound production in certain species of Orthoptera and plays a crucial role in reproductive behaviour
stridulation
secretion the males produce for females to eat while reproducing (coleo, and ortho)
Gustatory aphrodisiacs