The Post Quiz: Bug Lore
Created | Updated Sep 28, 2014
What do you know about…
The Post Quiz: Bug Lore
Are you an amateur entomologist? Do you like bugs? Or are you an insectophobe, like many of us? Do you like some bugs – say, butterflies – because they're pretty, but go 'Ewww!' when you see others? Is it just lookism?
Test your knowledge of bugs here. Multiple choice.
- Ladybirds (Am. 'ladybugs') are named for…
- A former President's wife.
- Madonna.
- Their ladylike habits.
- The Blessed Virgin.
- Australia solved a major cattle-ranching problem by importing…
- The giant herding moth.
- Birds to eat cattle flies.
- Dung beetles.
- Mosquito-catching bats.
- The Parktown Prawn is…
- A genetically-engineered insect.
- An edible crustacean.
- Able to live outside the ISS.
- Related to the cricket.
- You should keep your pet stick insects in a…
- Vivarium.
- Aquarium.
- Sandy terrarium.
- Shoe box.
- A bee orchid grows flowers…
- Only if bees are around.
- Shaped like bees, to fool them into pollinating.
- Every seven years.
- That make honey by themselves.
- Pitcher plants use nectar to catch insects by making them…
- Throw up.
- Get drunk and dizzy.
- Go to sleep.
- Fly faster.
- In China, it is possible to bet on fighting…
- Crickets.
- Grasshoppers.
- Mantises.
- Luna moths.
- Cymothoa exigua, a louse, lives by replacing a fish's…
- Nest.
- Fin.
- Tongue.
- Head.
- In the animal kingdom, the most human deaths are caused by the bites of…
- Sharks.
- Spiders.
- Canines.
- Mosquitoes.
- The oldest documented use of the word 'bug' to describe a hardware malfunction goes back to…
- Thomas Edison.
- Grace Hopper.
- Bill Gates.
- Archimedes.
Piece of cake, right? (Beware of ants on cake.) Check your answers by clicking on the picture below.
