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57295a501d046914007792fb
Insect
The majority of insects hatch from eggs. The fertilization and development takes place inside the egg, enclosed by a shell (chorion) that consists of maternal tissue. In contrast to eggs of other arthropods, most insect eggs are drought resistant. This is because inside the chorion two additional membranes develop from...
Broods is another term for what word?
{ "text": [ "generations" ], "answer_start": [ 1249 ] }
57295baf6aef051400154d5e
Insect
Other developmental and reproductive variations include haplodiploidy, polymorphism, paedomorphosis or peramorphosis, sexual dimorphism, parthenogenesis and more rarely hermaphroditism.:143 In haplodiploidy, which is a type of sex-determination system, the offspring's sex is determined by the number of sets of chromoso...
Polymophism is a developmental and reproductive what?
{ "text": [ "variations" ], "answer_start": [ 37 ] }
57295baf6aef051400154d5f
Insect
Other developmental and reproductive variations include haplodiploidy, polymorphism, paedomorphosis or peramorphosis, sexual dimorphism, parthenogenesis and more rarely hermaphroditism.:143 In haplodiploidy, which is a type of sex-determination system, the offspring's sex is determined by the number of sets of chromoso...
Haplodiploidy is what type of system?
{ "text": [ "sex-determination system" ], "answer_start": [ 227 ] }
57295baf6aef051400154d60
Insect
Other developmental and reproductive variations include haplodiploidy, polymorphism, paedomorphosis or peramorphosis, sexual dimorphism, parthenogenesis and more rarely hermaphroditism.:143 In haplodiploidy, which is a type of sex-determination system, the offspring's sex is determined by the number of sets of chromoso...
The number of chromosome sets determines the offspring's what?
{ "text": [ "sex" ], "answer_start": [ 269 ] }
57295baf6aef051400154d61
Insect
Other developmental and reproductive variations include haplodiploidy, polymorphism, paedomorphosis or peramorphosis, sexual dimorphism, parthenogenesis and more rarely hermaphroditism.:143 In haplodiploidy, which is a type of sex-determination system, the offspring's sex is determined by the number of sets of chromoso...
The sex-determination system is found in which insects?
{ "text": [ "bees and wasps" ], "answer_start": [ 374 ] }
57295baf6aef051400154d62
Insect
Other developmental and reproductive variations include haplodiploidy, polymorphism, paedomorphosis or peramorphosis, sexual dimorphism, parthenogenesis and more rarely hermaphroditism.:143 In haplodiploidy, which is a type of sex-determination system, the offspring's sex is determined by the number of sets of chromoso...
Polymophism species have different forms or what else?
{ "text": [ "morphs" ], "answer_start": [ 441 ] }
57295d3e1d04691400779329
Insect
Some insects use parthenogenesis, a process in which the female can reproduce and give birth without having the eggs fertilized by a male. Many aphids undergo a form of parthenogenesis, called cyclical parthenogenesis, in which they alternate between one or many generations of asexual and sexual reproduction. In summer...
How many insects use parthenogenesis?
{ "text": [ "Some" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
57295d3e1d0469140077932a
Insect
Some insects use parthenogenesis, a process in which the female can reproduce and give birth without having the eggs fertilized by a male. Many aphids undergo a form of parthenogenesis, called cyclical parthenogenesis, in which they alternate between one or many generations of asexual and sexual reproduction. In summer...
GIving birth without fertilized eggs is called what?
{ "text": [ "parthenogenesis" ], "answer_start": [ 17 ] }
57295d3e1d0469140077932b
Insect
Some insects use parthenogenesis, a process in which the female can reproduce and give birth without having the eggs fertilized by a male. Many aphids undergo a form of parthenogenesis, called cyclical parthenogenesis, in which they alternate between one or many generations of asexual and sexual reproduction. In summer...
What usually partakes in a form of parthenogenesis?
{ "text": [ "aphids" ], "answer_start": [ 144 ] }
57295d3e1d0469140077932c
Insect
Some insects use parthenogenesis, a process in which the female can reproduce and give birth without having the eggs fertilized by a male. Many aphids undergo a form of parthenogenesis, called cyclical parthenogenesis, in which they alternate between one or many generations of asexual and sexual reproduction. In summer...
Aphis have asexual and sexual what?
{ "text": [ "reproduction" ], "answer_start": [ 297 ] }
57295d3e1d0469140077932d
Insect
Some insects use parthenogenesis, a process in which the female can reproduce and give birth without having the eggs fertilized by a male. Many aphids undergo a form of parthenogenesis, called cyclical parthenogenesis, in which they alternate between one or many generations of asexual and sexual reproduction. In summer...
Aphis are usually female and what else during the summer?
{ "text": [ "parthenogenetic" ], "answer_start": [ 354 ] }
57295e7c6aef051400154d8c
Insect
Hemimetabolous insects, those with incomplete metamorphosis, change gradually by undergoing a series of molts. An insect molts when it outgrows its exoskeleton, which does not stretch and would otherwise restrict the insect's growth. The molting process begins as the insect's epidermis secretes a new epicuticle inside ...
Incomplete metamorphosis insects are called?
{ "text": [ "Hemimetabolous" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
57295e7c6aef051400154d8d
Insect
Hemimetabolous insects, those with incomplete metamorphosis, change gradually by undergoing a series of molts. An insect molts when it outgrows its exoskeleton, which does not stretch and would otherwise restrict the insect's growth. The molting process begins as the insect's epidermis secretes a new epicuticle inside ...
What kind of metamorphosis do hemimetabolous insects undergo?
{ "text": [ "incomplete" ], "answer_start": [ 35 ] }
57295e7c6aef051400154d8e
Insect
Hemimetabolous insects, those with incomplete metamorphosis, change gradually by undergoing a series of molts. An insect molts when it outgrows its exoskeleton, which does not stretch and would otherwise restrict the insect's growth. The molting process begins as the insect's epidermis secretes a new epicuticle inside ...
Do hemimetabolous insects change quickly or gradually?
{ "text": [ "gradually" ], "answer_start": [ 68 ] }
57295e7c6aef051400154d8f
Insect
Hemimetabolous insects, those with incomplete metamorphosis, change gradually by undergoing a series of molts. An insect molts when it outgrows its exoskeleton, which does not stretch and would otherwise restrict the insect's growth. The molting process begins as the insect's epidermis secretes a new epicuticle inside ...
Hemimetabolous insects gradually change by a series of what?
{ "text": [ "molts" ], "answer_start": [ 104 ] }
57295e7c6aef051400154d90
Insect
Hemimetabolous insects, those with incomplete metamorphosis, change gradually by undergoing a series of molts. An insect molts when it outgrows its exoskeleton, which does not stretch and would otherwise restrict the insect's growth. The molting process begins as the insect's epidermis secretes a new epicuticle inside ...
Insect's molt when they outgrow what?
{ "text": [ "exoskeleton" ], "answer_start": [ 148 ] }
57295f293f37b319004782c5
Insect
Holometabolism, or complete metamorphosis, is where the insect changes in four stages, an egg or embryo, a larva, a pupa and the adult or imago. In these species, an egg hatches to produce a larva, which is generally worm-like in form. This worm-like form can be one of several varieties: eruciform (caterpillar-like), s...
What is a complete metamorphosis called?
{ "text": [ "Holometabolism" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
57295f293f37b319004782c6
Insect
Holometabolism, or complete metamorphosis, is where the insect changes in four stages, an egg or embryo, a larva, a pupa and the adult or imago. In these species, an egg hatches to produce a larva, which is generally worm-like in form. This worm-like form can be one of several varieties: eruciform (caterpillar-like), s...
How many stages happen in complete metamorphosis?
{ "text": [ "four stages" ], "answer_start": [ 74 ] }
57295f293f37b319004782c7
Insect
Holometabolism, or complete metamorphosis, is where the insect changes in four stages, an egg or embryo, a larva, a pupa and the adult or imago. In these species, an egg hatches to produce a larva, which is generally worm-like in form. This worm-like form can be one of several varieties: eruciform (caterpillar-like), s...
What is another word for egg?
{ "text": [ "embryo" ], "answer_start": [ 97 ] }
57295f293f37b319004782c8
Insect
Holometabolism, or complete metamorphosis, is where the insect changes in four stages, an egg or embryo, a larva, a pupa and the adult or imago. In these species, an egg hatches to produce a larva, which is generally worm-like in form. This worm-like form can be one of several varieties: eruciform (caterpillar-like), s...
What is an imago?
{ "text": [ "the adult" ], "answer_start": [ 125 ] }
57295f293f37b319004782c9
Insect
Holometabolism, or complete metamorphosis, is where the insect changes in four stages, an egg or embryo, a larva, a pupa and the adult or imago. In these species, an egg hatches to produce a larva, which is generally worm-like in form. This worm-like form can be one of several varieties: eruciform (caterpillar-like), s...
Name an example of an insect that undergoes complete metamorphosis?
{ "text": [ "Butterflies" ], "answer_start": [ 911 ] }
572984bc1d046914007794f7
Insect
Many insects possess very sensitive and, or specialized organs of perception. Some insects such as bees can perceive ultraviolet wavelengths, or detect polarized light, while the antennae of male moths can detect the pheromones of female moths over distances of many kilometers. The yellow paper wasp (Polistes versicolo...
Insects have specialized organs of what kind?
{ "text": [ "perception" ], "answer_start": [ 66 ] }
572984bc1d046914007794f8
Insect
Many insects possess very sensitive and, or specialized organs of perception. Some insects such as bees can perceive ultraviolet wavelengths, or detect polarized light, while the antennae of male moths can detect the pheromones of female moths over distances of many kilometers. The yellow paper wasp (Polistes versicolo...
Insect organs are described as sensitive and what?
{ "text": [ "specialized" ], "answer_start": [ 44 ] }
572984bc1d046914007794f9
Insect
Many insects possess very sensitive and, or specialized organs of perception. Some insects such as bees can perceive ultraviolet wavelengths, or detect polarized light, while the antennae of male moths can detect the pheromones of female moths over distances of many kilometers. The yellow paper wasp (Polistes versicolo...
What kind of insect can detect ultraviolet wavelengths?
{ "text": [ "bees" ], "answer_start": [ 99 ] }
572984bc1d046914007794fa
Insect
Many insects possess very sensitive and, or specialized organs of perception. Some insects such as bees can perceive ultraviolet wavelengths, or detect polarized light, while the antennae of male moths can detect the pheromones of female moths over distances of many kilometers. The yellow paper wasp (Polistes versicolo...
Bees can detect what kind of light?
{ "text": [ "polarized light" ], "answer_start": [ 152 ] }
572984bc1d046914007794fb
Insect
Many insects possess very sensitive and, or specialized organs of perception. Some insects such as bees can perceive ultraviolet wavelengths, or detect polarized light, while the antennae of male moths can detect the pheromones of female moths over distances of many kilometers. The yellow paper wasp (Polistes versicolo...
What is a Polistes versicolor?
{ "text": [ "yellow paper wasp" ], "answer_start": [ 283 ] }
572985e83f37b31900478473
Insect
Some insects display a rudimentary sense of numbers, such as the solitary wasps that prey upon a single species. The mother wasp lays her eggs in individual cells and provides each egg with a number of live caterpillars on which the young feed when hatched. Some species of wasp always provide five, others twelve, and o...
Insects have what kind of sense of numbers?
{ "text": [ "rudimentary" ], "answer_start": [ 23 ] }
572985e83f37b31900478474
Insect
Some insects display a rudimentary sense of numbers, such as the solitary wasps that prey upon a single species. The mother wasp lays her eggs in individual cells and provides each egg with a number of live caterpillars on which the young feed when hatched. Some species of wasp always provide five, others twelve, and o...
Which insect displays a rudimentary sense of numbers?
{ "text": [ "solitary wasps" ], "answer_start": [ 65 ] }
572985e83f37b31900478475
Insect
Some insects display a rudimentary sense of numbers, such as the solitary wasps that prey upon a single species. The mother wasp lays her eggs in individual cells and provides each egg with a number of live caterpillars on which the young feed when hatched. Some species of wasp always provide five, others twelve, and o...
What kind of species does a solitary wasp prey upon?
{ "text": [ "single" ], "answer_start": [ 97 ] }
572985e83f37b31900478476
Insect
Some insects display a rudimentary sense of numbers, such as the solitary wasps that prey upon a single species. The mother wasp lays her eggs in individual cells and provides each egg with a number of live caterpillars on which the young feed when hatched. Some species of wasp always provide five, others twelve, and o...
What does the mother wasp provide for her eggs when they hatch?
{ "text": [ "caterpillars" ], "answer_start": [ 207 ] }
572985e83f37b31900478477
Insect
Some insects display a rudimentary sense of numbers, such as the solitary wasps that prey upon a single species. The mother wasp lays her eggs in individual cells and provides each egg with a number of live caterpillars on which the young feed when hatched. Some species of wasp always provide five, others twelve, and o...
Is the male solitary wasp bigger or smaller than the female solitary wasp?
{ "text": [ "smaller" ], "answer_start": [ 517 ] }
5729873f3f37b3190047847d
Insect
A few insects, such as members of the families Poduridae and Onychiuridae (Collembola), Mycetophilidae (Diptera) and the beetle families Lampyridae, Phengodidae, Elateridae and Staphylinidae are bioluminescent. The most familiar group are the fireflies, beetles of the family Lampyridae. Some species are able to control...
What is another name for Colleobola?
{ "text": [ "Onychiuridae" ], "answer_start": [ 61 ] }
5729873f3f37b3190047847e
Insect
A few insects, such as members of the families Poduridae and Onychiuridae (Collembola), Mycetophilidae (Diptera) and the beetle families Lampyridae, Phengodidae, Elateridae and Staphylinidae are bioluminescent. The most familiar group are the fireflies, beetles of the family Lampyridae. Some species are able to control...
Mycetophilldae is another name for what?
{ "text": [ "Diptera" ], "answer_start": [ 104 ] }
5729873f3f37b3190047847f
Insect
A few insects, such as members of the families Poduridae and Onychiuridae (Collembola), Mycetophilidae (Diptera) and the beetle families Lampyridae, Phengodidae, Elateridae and Staphylinidae are bioluminescent. The most familiar group are the fireflies, beetles of the family Lampyridae. Some species are able to control...
Phengodidae is party of what insect family?
{ "text": [ "beetle" ], "answer_start": [ 121 ] }
5729873f3f37b31900478480
Insect
A few insects, such as members of the families Poduridae and Onychiuridae (Collembola), Mycetophilidae (Diptera) and the beetle families Lampyridae, Phengodidae, Elateridae and Staphylinidae are bioluminescent. The most familiar group are the fireflies, beetles of the family Lampyridae. Some species are able to control...
Elateridae and Staphylinidae are what kind of luminescent?
{ "text": [ "bioluminescent" ], "answer_start": [ 195 ] }
5729873f3f37b31900478481
Insect
A few insects, such as members of the families Poduridae and Onychiuridae (Collembola), Mycetophilidae (Diptera) and the beetle families Lampyridae, Phengodidae, Elateridae and Staphylinidae are bioluminescent. The most familiar group are the fireflies, beetles of the family Lampyridae. Some species are able to control...
What kind of fly mimics the flashing of female Photinus to attract males?
{ "text": [ "fireflies" ], "answer_start": [ 602 ] }
572988cc6aef051400154fb6
Insect
Most insects, except some species of cave crickets, are able to perceive light and dark. Many species have acute vision capable of detecting minute movements. The eyes may include simple eyes or ocelli as well as compound eyes of varying sizes. Many species are able to detect light in the infrared, ultraviolet and the ...
Most insects are able to perceive darkness and what else?
{ "text": [ "light" ], "answer_start": [ 73 ] }
572988cc6aef051400154fb7
Insect
Most insects, except some species of cave crickets, are able to perceive light and dark. Many species have acute vision capable of detecting minute movements. The eyes may include simple eyes or ocelli as well as compound eyes of varying sizes. Many species are able to detect light in the infrared, ultraviolet and the ...
What insect is not abel to perceive light and dark?
{ "text": [ "cave crickets" ], "answer_start": [ 37 ] }
572988cc6aef051400154fb8
Insect
Most insects, except some species of cave crickets, are able to perceive light and dark. Many species have acute vision capable of detecting minute movements. The eyes may include simple eyes or ocelli as well as compound eyes of varying sizes. Many species are able to detect light in the infrared, ultraviolet and the ...
Most insects have what kind of vision?
{ "text": [ "acute" ], "answer_start": [ 107 ] }
572988cc6aef051400154fb9
Insect
Most insects, except some species of cave crickets, are able to perceive light and dark. Many species have acute vision capable of detecting minute movements. The eyes may include simple eyes or ocelli as well as compound eyes of varying sizes. Many species are able to detect light in the infrared, ultraviolet and the ...
Insects notice what type of movement?
{ "text": [ "minute" ], "answer_start": [ 141 ] }
572988cc6aef051400154fba
Insect
Most insects, except some species of cave crickets, are able to perceive light and dark. Many species have acute vision capable of detecting minute movements. The eyes may include simple eyes or ocelli as well as compound eyes of varying sizes. Many species are able to detect light in the infrared, ultraviolet and the ...
Many insects are able to see visible light, ultraviolet, and what other kind of light?
{ "text": [ "infrared" ], "answer_start": [ 290 ] }
57298a8baf94a219006aa4ed
Insect
Insects were the earliest organisms to produce and sense sounds. Insects make sounds mostly by mechanical action of appendages. In grasshoppers and crickets, this is achieved by stridulation. Cicadas make the loudest sounds among the insects by producing and amplifying sounds with special modifications to their body an...
What were the earliest organisms to produce sound?
{ "text": [ "Insects" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
57298a8baf94a219006aa4ee
Insect
Insects were the earliest organisms to produce and sense sounds. Insects make sounds mostly by mechanical action of appendages. In grasshoppers and crickets, this is achieved by stridulation. Cicadas make the loudest sounds among the insects by producing and amplifying sounds with special modifications to their body an...
Insects can sense what?
{ "text": [ "sounds" ], "answer_start": [ 57 ] }
57298a8baf94a219006aa4ef
Insect
Insects were the earliest organisms to produce and sense sounds. Insects make sounds mostly by mechanical action of appendages. In grasshoppers and crickets, this is achieved by stridulation. Cicadas make the loudest sounds among the insects by producing and amplifying sounds with special modifications to their body an...
Insect sounds come from what kind of action?
{ "text": [ "mechanical" ], "answer_start": [ 95 ] }
57298a8baf94a219006aa4f0
Insect
Insects were the earliest organisms to produce and sense sounds. Insects make sounds mostly by mechanical action of appendages. In grasshoppers and crickets, this is achieved by stridulation. Cicadas make the loudest sounds among the insects by producing and amplifying sounds with special modifications to their body an...
The mechanical action of what allows insects t make sound?
{ "text": [ "appendages" ], "answer_start": [ 116 ] }
57298a8baf94a219006aa4f1
Insect
Insects were the earliest organisms to produce and sense sounds. Insects make sounds mostly by mechanical action of appendages. In grasshoppers and crickets, this is achieved by stridulation. Cicadas make the loudest sounds among the insects by producing and amplifying sounds with special modifications to their body an...
Moths create what kind of click sounds?
{ "text": [ "ultrasonic" ], "answer_start": [ 640 ] }
57298be2af94a219006aa4f7
Insect
Very low sounds are also produced in various species of Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Mantodea and Neuroptera. These low sounds are simply the sounds made by the insect's movement. Through microscopic stridulatory structures located on the insect's muscles and joints, the normal sounds of the insect moving are ...
What sound volume is produced by Coleoptera?
{ "text": [ "low" ], "answer_start": [ 5 ] }
57298be2af94a219006aa4f8
Insect
Very low sounds are also produced in various species of Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Mantodea and Neuroptera. These low sounds are simply the sounds made by the insect's movement. Through microscopic stridulatory structures located on the insect's muscles and joints, the normal sounds of the insect moving are ...
Low insect sounds are made by the insect's what?
{ "text": [ "movement" ], "answer_start": [ 179 ] }
57298be2af94a219006aa4f9
Insect
Very low sounds are also produced in various species of Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Mantodea and Neuroptera. These low sounds are simply the sounds made by the insect's movement. Through microscopic stridulatory structures located on the insect's muscles and joints, the normal sounds of the insect moving are ...
Low insect sounds can be heard through what?
{ "text": [ "microscopic stridulatory structures" ], "answer_start": [ 197 ] }
57298be2af94a219006aa4fa
Insect
Very low sounds are also produced in various species of Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Mantodea and Neuroptera. These low sounds are simply the sounds made by the insect's movement. Through microscopic stridulatory structures located on the insect's muscles and joints, the normal sounds of the insect moving are ...
Insect moving sounds are used to warn and do what with other insects?
{ "text": [ "communicate" ], "answer_start": [ 357 ] }
57298be2af94a219006aa4fb
Insect
Very low sounds are also produced in various species of Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Mantodea and Neuroptera. These low sounds are simply the sounds made by the insect's movement. Through microscopic stridulatory structures located on the insect's muscles and joints, the normal sounds of the insect moving are ...
Corixids are able to communicate with what type of sounds?
{ "text": [ "underwater" ], "answer_start": [ 570 ] }
57298d496aef051400154fca
Insect
Some species use vibrations for communicating within members of the same species, such as to attract mates as in the songs of the shield bug Nezara viridula. Vibrations can also be used to communicate between entirely different species; lycaenid (gossamer-winged butterfly) caterpillars which are myrmecophilous (living ...
What are used by insects to communicate with members of the same species?
{ "text": [ "vibrations" ], "answer_start": [ 17 ] }
57298d496aef051400154fcb
Insect
Some species use vibrations for communicating within members of the same species, such as to attract mates as in the songs of the shield bug Nezara viridula. Vibrations can also be used to communicate between entirely different species; lycaenid (gossamer-winged butterfly) caterpillars which are myrmecophilous (living ...
Vibrations are used to communicate with members of the same species, and what other species?
{ "text": [ "different species" ], "answer_start": [ 218 ] }
57298d496aef051400154fcc
Insect
Some species use vibrations for communicating within members of the same species, such as to attract mates as in the songs of the shield bug Nezara viridula. Vibrations can also be used to communicate between entirely different species; lycaenid (gossamer-winged butterfly) caterpillars which are myrmecophilous (living ...
Which insects has a song to attract males from the same species?
{ "text": [ "Nezara viridula" ], "answer_start": [ 141 ] }
57298d496aef051400154fcd
Insect
Some species use vibrations for communicating within members of the same species, such as to attract mates as in the songs of the shield bug Nezara viridula. Vibrations can also be used to communicate between entirely different species; lycaenid (gossamer-winged butterfly) caterpillars which are myrmecophilous (living ...
What is a lycaenid caterpillar?
{ "text": [ "gossamer-winged butterfly" ], "answer_start": [ 247 ] }
57298d496aef051400154fce
Insect
Some species use vibrations for communicating within members of the same species, such as to attract mates as in the songs of the shield bug Nezara viridula. Vibrations can also be used to communicate between entirely different species; lycaenid (gossamer-winged butterfly) caterpillars which are myrmecophilous (living ...
Living in association with ants is called what?
{ "text": [ "myrmecophilous" ], "answer_start": [ 297 ] }
57298edfaf94a219006aa501
Insect
Chemical communications in animals rely on a variety of aspects including taste and smell. Chemoreception is the physiological response of a sense organ (i.e. taste or smell) to a chemical stimulus where the chemicals act as signals to regulate the state or activity of a cell. A semiochemical is a message-carrying chem...
Animal taste and smell rely on what kind of communication?
{ "text": [ "Chemical" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
57298edfaf94a219006aa502
Insect
Chemical communications in animals rely on a variety of aspects including taste and smell. Chemoreception is the physiological response of a sense organ (i.e. taste or smell) to a chemical stimulus where the chemicals act as signals to regulate the state or activity of a cell. A semiochemical is a message-carrying chem...
What is the physiological response of a sense organ called?
{ "text": [ "Chemoreception" ], "answer_start": [ 91 ] }
57298edfaf94a219006aa503
Insect
Chemical communications in animals rely on a variety of aspects including taste and smell. Chemoreception is the physiological response of a sense organ (i.e. taste or smell) to a chemical stimulus where the chemicals act as signals to regulate the state or activity of a cell. A semiochemical is a message-carrying chem...
Chemical stimuli are signals that regulate the activity of what?
{ "text": [ "a cell" ], "answer_start": [ 270 ] }
57298edfaf94a219006aa504
Insect
Chemical communications in animals rely on a variety of aspects including taste and smell. Chemoreception is the physiological response of a sense organ (i.e. taste or smell) to a chemical stimulus where the chemicals act as signals to regulate the state or activity of a cell. A semiochemical is a message-carrying chem...
What is a message-carrying chemical called?
{ "text": [ "semiochemical" ], "answer_start": [ 280 ] }
57298edfaf94a219006aa505
Insect
Chemical communications in animals rely on a variety of aspects including taste and smell. Chemoreception is the physiological response of a sense organ (i.e. taste or smell) to a chemical stimulus where the chemicals act as signals to regulate the state or activity of a cell. A semiochemical is a message-carrying chem...
Kairomones are a type of what?
{ "text": [ "semiochemicals" ], "answer_start": [ 391 ] }
572990451d04691400779537
Insect
In addition to the use of sound for communication, a wide range of insects have evolved chemical means for communication. These chemicals, termed semiochemicals, are often derived from plant metabolites include those meant to attract, repel and provide other kinds of information. Pheromones, a type of semiochemical, ar...
Insects use sound and what other means for communication?
{ "text": [ "chemical means" ], "answer_start": [ 88 ] }
572990451d04691400779538
Insect
In addition to the use of sound for communication, a wide range of insects have evolved chemical means for communication. These chemicals, termed semiochemicals, are often derived from plant metabolites include those meant to attract, repel and provide other kinds of information. Pheromones, a type of semiochemical, ar...
The chemicals used by insects to communicate are called what?
{ "text": [ "semiochemicals" ], "answer_start": [ 146 ] }
572990451d04691400779539
Insect
In addition to the use of sound for communication, a wide range of insects have evolved chemical means for communication. These chemicals, termed semiochemicals, are often derived from plant metabolites include those meant to attract, repel and provide other kinds of information. Pheromones, a type of semiochemical, ar...
Semiochemicals come from where?
{ "text": [ "plant metabolites" ], "answer_start": [ 185 ] }
572990451d0469140077953a
Insect
In addition to the use of sound for communication, a wide range of insects have evolved chemical means for communication. These chemicals, termed semiochemicals, are often derived from plant metabolites include those meant to attract, repel and provide other kinds of information. Pheromones, a type of semiochemical, ar...
Insect chemicals are used to attract and what else?
{ "text": [ "repel" ], "answer_start": [ 235 ] }
572990451d0469140077953b
Insect
In addition to the use of sound for communication, a wide range of insects have evolved chemical means for communication. These chemicals, termed semiochemicals, are often derived from plant metabolites include those meant to attract, repel and provide other kinds of information. Pheromones, a type of semiochemical, ar...
What insect chemical benefits both the receiver and the producer?
{ "text": [ "Synomones" ], "answer_start": [ 677 ] }
5729913b3f37b31900478497
Insect
Social insects, such as termites, ants and many bees and wasps, are the most familiar species of eusocial animal. They live together in large well-organized colonies that may be so tightly integrated and genetically similar that the colonies of some species are sometimes considered superorganisms. It is sometimes argue...
Termites are considered what type of insect?
{ "text": [ "Social" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
5729913b3f37b31900478498
Insect
Social insects, such as termites, ants and many bees and wasps, are the most familiar species of eusocial animal. They live together in large well-organized colonies that may be so tightly integrated and genetically similar that the colonies of some species are sometimes considered superorganisms. It is sometimes argue...
Termites, bees, wasps, and what other insect are social insects?
{ "text": [ "ants" ], "answer_start": [ 34 ] }
5729913b3f37b31900478499
Insect
Social insects, such as termites, ants and many bees and wasps, are the most familiar species of eusocial animal. They live together in large well-organized colonies that may be so tightly integrated and genetically similar that the colonies of some species are sometimes considered superorganisms. It is sometimes argue...
What is another term for social insect?
{ "text": [ "eusocial animal" ], "answer_start": [ 97 ] }
5729913b3f37b3190047849a
Insect
Social insects, such as termites, ants and many bees and wasps, are the most familiar species of eusocial animal. They live together in large well-organized colonies that may be so tightly integrated and genetically similar that the colonies of some species are sometimes considered superorganisms. It is sometimes argue...
Social insects live in well organized what?
{ "text": [ "colonies" ], "answer_start": [ 157 ] }
5729913b3f37b3190047849b
Insect
Social insects, such as termites, ants and many bees and wasps, are the most familiar species of eusocial animal. They live together in large well-organized colonies that may be so tightly integrated and genetically similar that the colonies of some species are sometimes considered superorganisms. It is sometimes argue...
The method that a bee dances is called what?
{ "text": [ "dance language" ], "answer_start": [ 635 ] }
572993a5af94a219006aa51f
Insect
Only insects which live in nests or colonies demonstrate any true capacity for fine-scale spatial orientation or homing. This can allow an insect to return unerringly to a single hole a few millimeters in diameter among thousands of apparently identical holes clustered together, after a trip of up to several kilometers...
Insects with fine scale spatial orientation live in colonies and where else?
{ "text": [ "nests" ], "answer_start": [ 27 ] }
572993a5af94a219006aa520
Insect
Only insects which live in nests or colonies demonstrate any true capacity for fine-scale spatial orientation or homing. This can allow an insect to return unerringly to a single hole a few millimeters in diameter among thousands of apparently identical holes clustered together, after a trip of up to several kilometers...
Some insects have a fine scale spatial orientation and/or what else?
{ "text": [ "homing" ], "answer_start": [ 113 ] }
572993a5af94a219006aa521
Insect
Only insects which live in nests or colonies demonstrate any true capacity for fine-scale spatial orientation or homing. This can allow an insect to return unerringly to a single hole a few millimeters in diameter among thousands of apparently identical holes clustered together, after a trip of up to several kilometers...
Spacial orientation/homing allows an insect to return to one specific hole among how many?
{ "text": [ "thousands" ], "answer_start": [ 220 ] }
572993a5af94a219006aa522
Insect
Only insects which live in nests or colonies demonstrate any true capacity for fine-scale spatial orientation or homing. This can allow an insect to return unerringly to a single hole a few millimeters in diameter among thousands of apparently identical holes clustered together, after a trip of up to several kilometers...
An insect recalling a specific location for up to a year is called what?
{ "text": [ "philopatry" ], "answer_start": [ 357 ] }
572993a5af94a219006aa523
Insect
Only insects which live in nests or colonies demonstrate any true capacity for fine-scale spatial orientation or homing. This can allow an insect to return unerringly to a single hole a few millimeters in diameter among thousands of apparently identical holes clustered together, after a trip of up to several kilometers...
An insect that can recall a specific location for up to a year does what?
{ "text": [ "hibernate" ], "answer_start": [ 382 ] }
572994a7af94a219006aa529
Insect
The eusocial insects build nest, guard eggs, and provide food for offspring full-time (see Eusociality). Most insects, however, lead short lives as adults, and rarely interact with one another except to mate or compete for mates. A small number exhibit some form of parental care, where they will at least guard their eg...
Eusocial insects provide food for their offspring full-time or part-time?
{ "text": [ "full-time" ], "answer_start": [ 76 ] }
572994a7af94a219006aa52a
Insect
The eusocial insects build nest, guard eggs, and provide food for offspring full-time (see Eusociality). Most insects, however, lead short lives as adults, and rarely interact with one another except to mate or compete for mates. A small number exhibit some form of parental care, where they will at least guard their eg...
What do eusocial insects guard?
{ "text": [ "eggs" ], "answer_start": [ 39 ] }
572994a7af94a219006aa52b
Insect
The eusocial insects build nest, guard eggs, and provide food for offspring full-time (see Eusociality). Most insects, however, lead short lives as adults, and rarely interact with one another except to mate or compete for mates. A small number exhibit some form of parental care, where they will at least guard their eg...
What do eusocial insects build?
{ "text": [ "nest" ], "answer_start": [ 27 ] }
572994a7af94a219006aa52c
Insect
The eusocial insects build nest, guard eggs, and provide food for offspring full-time (see Eusociality). Most insects, however, lead short lives as adults, and rarely interact with one another except to mate or compete for mates. A small number exhibit some form of parental care, where they will at least guard their eg...
Most eusocial insects lead what kind of life once becoming an adult?
{ "text": [ "short" ], "answer_start": [ 133 ] }
572994a7af94a219006aa52d
Insect
The eusocial insects build nest, guard eggs, and provide food for offspring full-time (see Eusociality). Most insects, however, lead short lives as adults, and rarely interact with one another except to mate or compete for mates. A small number exhibit some form of parental care, where they will at least guard their eg...
An adult eusocial insect does not contact it's what?
{ "text": [ "growing offspring" ], "answer_start": [ 654 ] }
572995e9af94a219006aa539
Insect
Insects are the only group of invertebrates to have developed flight. The evolution of insect wings has been a subject of debate. Some entomologists suggest that the wings are from paranotal lobes, or extensions from the insect's exoskeleton called the nota, called the paranotal theory. Other theories are based on a pl...
Insects are the only invertebrates that have evolved into what?
{ "text": [ "flight" ], "answer_start": [ 62 ] }
572995e9af94a219006aa53a
Insect
Insects are the only group of invertebrates to have developed flight. The evolution of insect wings has been a subject of debate. Some entomologists suggest that the wings are from paranotal lobes, or extensions from the insect's exoskeleton called the nota, called the paranotal theory. Other theories are based on a pl...
What part of the insect has been up for debate?
{ "text": [ "wings" ], "answer_start": [ 94 ] }
572995e9af94a219006aa53b
Insect
Insects are the only group of invertebrates to have developed flight. The evolution of insect wings has been a subject of debate. Some entomologists suggest that the wings are from paranotal lobes, or extensions from the insect's exoskeleton called the nota, called the paranotal theory. Other theories are based on a pl...
Wings from the paranotal lobes are based on what theory?
{ "text": [ "paranotal theory" ], "answer_start": [ 270 ] }
572995e9af94a219006aa53c
Insect
Insects are the only group of invertebrates to have developed flight. The evolution of insect wings has been a subject of debate. Some entomologists suggest that the wings are from paranotal lobes, or extensions from the insect's exoskeleton called the nota, called the paranotal theory. Other theories are based on a pl...
Wings from modified gills is from what origin?
{ "text": [ "pleural origin" ], "answer_start": [ 318 ] }
572995e9af94a219006aa53d
Insect
Insects are the only group of invertebrates to have developed flight. The evolution of insect wings has been a subject of debate. Some entomologists suggest that the wings are from paranotal lobes, or extensions from the insect's exoskeleton called the nota, called the paranotal theory. Other theories are based on a pl...
The epicoxal theory suggests insect wings are modified what?
{ "text": [ "epicoxal exites" ], "answer_start": [ 528 ] }
572996a1af94a219006aa543
Insect
Many adult insects use six legs for walking and have adopted a tripedal gait. The tripedal gait allows for rapid walking while always having a stable stance and has been studied extensively in cockroaches. The legs are used in alternate triangles touching the ground. For the first step, the middle right leg and the fro...
How many legs do adult insects contain?
{ "text": [ "six" ], "answer_start": [ 23 ] }
572996a1af94a219006aa544
Insect
Many adult insects use six legs for walking and have adopted a tripedal gait. The tripedal gait allows for rapid walking while always having a stable stance and has been studied extensively in cockroaches. The legs are used in alternate triangles touching the ground. For the first step, the middle right leg and the fro...
Most adult insects have adopted what kind of gait?
{ "text": [ "tripedal" ], "answer_start": [ 63 ] }
572996a1af94a219006aa545
Insect
Many adult insects use six legs for walking and have adopted a tripedal gait. The tripedal gait allows for rapid walking while always having a stable stance and has been studied extensively in cockroaches. The legs are used in alternate triangles touching the ground. For the first step, the middle right leg and the fro...
The tripedal gait allows what kind of walking?
{ "text": [ "rapid" ], "answer_start": [ 107 ] }
572996a1af94a219006aa546
Insect
Many adult insects use six legs for walking and have adopted a tripedal gait. The tripedal gait allows for rapid walking while always having a stable stance and has been studied extensively in cockroaches. The legs are used in alternate triangles touching the ground. For the first step, the middle right leg and the fro...
Insects can adopt how many gaits?
{ "text": [ "a variety" ], "answer_start": [ 781 ] }
572996a1af94a219006aa547
Insect
Many adult insects use six legs for walking and have adopted a tripedal gait. The tripedal gait allows for rapid walking while always having a stable stance and has been studied extensively in cockroaches. The legs are used in alternate triangles touching the ground. For the first step, the middle right leg and the fro...
Insects can change their gait to deal with the loss of what?
{ "text": [ "limbs" ], "answer_start": [ 983 ] }
572997463f37b319004784bd
Insect
Cockroaches are among the fastest insect runners and, at full speed, adopt a bipedal run to reach a high velocity in proportion to their body size. As cockroaches move very quickly, they need to be video recorded at several hundred frames per second to reveal their gait. More sedate locomotion is seen in the stick inse...
What kind of locomotion is seen in stick insects?
{ "text": [ "sedate" ], "answer_start": [ 277 ] }
572997463f37b319004784be
Insect
Cockroaches are among the fastest insect runners and, at full speed, adopt a bipedal run to reach a high velocity in proportion to their body size. As cockroaches move very quickly, they need to be video recorded at several hundred frames per second to reveal their gait. More sedate locomotion is seen in the stick inse...
What is another name for walking stick insects?
{ "text": [ "Phasmatodea" ], "answer_start": [ 343 ] }
572997463f37b319004784bf
Insect
Cockroaches are among the fastest insect runners and, at full speed, adopt a bipedal run to reach a high velocity in proportion to their body size. As cockroaches move very quickly, they need to be video recorded at several hundred frames per second to reveal their gait. More sedate locomotion is seen in the stick inse...
Some insects can walk on top of what?
{ "text": [ "water" ], "answer_start": [ 414 ] }
572997463f37b319004784c0
Insect
Cockroaches are among the fastest insect runners and, at full speed, adopt a bipedal run to reach a high velocity in proportion to their body size. As cockroaches move very quickly, they need to be video recorded at several hundred frames per second to reveal their gait. More sedate locomotion is seen in the stick inse...
What insect can walk on the surface of water?
{ "text": [ "water striders" ], "answer_start": [ 482 ] }
572997463f37b319004784c1
Insect
Cockroaches are among the fastest insect runners and, at full speed, adopt a bipedal run to reach a high velocity in proportion to their body size. As cockroaches move very quickly, they need to be video recorded at several hundred frames per second to reveal their gait. More sedate locomotion is seen in the stick inse...
Water striders are part of what insect family?
{ "text": [ "Gerridae" ], "answer_start": [ 447 ] }
572998921d04691400779565
Insect
Many of these species have adaptations to help in under-water locomotion. Water beetles and water bugs have legs adapted into paddle-like structures. Dragonfly naiads use jet propulsion, forcibly expelling water out of their rectal chamber. Some species like the water striders are capable of walking on the surface of w...
Water beetles have legs of what type of structure?
{ "text": [ "paddle-like" ], "answer_start": [ 126 ] }
572998921d04691400779566
Insect
Many of these species have adaptations to help in under-water locomotion. Water beetles and water bugs have legs adapted into paddle-like structures. Dragonfly naiads use jet propulsion, forcibly expelling water out of their rectal chamber. Some species like the water striders are capable of walking on the surface of w...
Dragonflys use what kind of propulsion?
{ "text": [ "jet" ], "answer_start": [ 171 ] }
572998921d04691400779567
Insect
Many of these species have adaptations to help in under-water locomotion. Water beetles and water bugs have legs adapted into paddle-like structures. Dragonfly naiads use jet propulsion, forcibly expelling water out of their rectal chamber. Some species like the water striders are capable of walking on the surface of w...
Dragonflys shoot water from where?
{ "text": [ "rectal chamber" ], "answer_start": [ 225 ] }
572998921d04691400779568
Insect
Many of these species have adaptations to help in under-water locomotion. Water beetles and water bugs have legs adapted into paddle-like structures. Dragonfly naiads use jet propulsion, forcibly expelling water out of their rectal chamber. Some species like the water striders are capable of walking on the surface of w...
Water striders have what kind of special groove up their leg?
{ "text": [ "recessed" ], "answer_start": [ 419 ] }