PCA Exam with answers Insects, Mites, and other Invertebrates

PCA Exam with answers: Insects, Mites, and other
Invertebrates
1. Name the insect
Western tarnished plant
bug (lygus bug)




2. Order then family Hemiptera, Miridae




3. Name the insect Minute pirate bug




4. Order then Family Hemiptera, Anthocoridae




5. Predaceous on a wide variety of small Hemiptera,
insects. Used in greenhouses for controlling Anthocoridae, Minute
thrips. Order, family, common name pirate bug

6. Nymph. Order, Family, insect name


, PCA Exam with answers: Insects, Mites, and other
Invertebrates
Hemiptera, Anthocoridae, Minute pirate bug




7. Significance
11. (pest, natural
enemy, pollinato




8.
Name the insect




9. Order then Fami




Injury occurs on
10.
squash,
pumpkins, and
melons. Adults
and nymphs
cause damage b
sucking plant
juices. Leaves


, PCA Exam with answers: Insects, Mites, and other
Invertebrates
los own. Name family Natural enemy
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nu
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(Nymph) Order then family
an Squash bug
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wa
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d Hempitera, Coreidae
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Coreidae
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lat
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tur
ni
Hemiptera, lygaeidae
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, PCA Exam with answers: Insects, Mites, and other
Invertebrates




12. Name the insect Big eyed bug




Common on low-growing plants including Hemiptera, lygaeidae
13.
many field and row crops in which they stalk
their prey. Name order then family




Similar in appearance to Big eyed bug. A small Hemiptera,
14. insect commonly found within grassy or weedy lygaeidae, false
fields, pas- tures, and foothills. Each spring, chinch bug
once the plants in these areas dry up, the
false chinch bug migrates to find new places
to feed. Order, family, then common name




Order then family
Hemiptera, Nabidae
15.