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6. Female long horned grass hoppers eat sperm after copulation

  • True
  • False

7. Which is an example of insects where the sex roles are reversed?

  • Dung beetle
  • Mormon cricket
  • Dragonfly
  • Horned scarabaeid beetle

8. Which is an example of insects that mate guard?

  • Love bugs
  • Honey bees
  • Damselfly
  • Hanging fly

9. When females choose between male mates it is known as?

  • Intersexual selection
  • Intraspecific competition
  • Intrasexual selection

10. Do female or male moths have more elaborate antennae?

  • Male
  • Female

11. What is the biological cost of a male cicada singing at dusk to attract females?

  • Higher energy usage
  • Higher chance of predation
  • More competition
  • Less likely to attract a mate

12. Which is a selective advantage of female choice?

  • Good genes
  • A meal
  • Mate for life

13. Males of which species have inflatable penises that are used to pack perm from previous males deep into the females spermatheca?

  • Wasp
  • Dragonfly
  • Damselfly
  • Dung beetle

14. What is potrandry?

  • The difference in arrival date between males and females
  • The difference in sexually diamorphic species
  • The competition between male sperm
  • Darwin's law of battle

15. Which is an example of an insect that uses nuptial gifts?

  • Dragonfly
  • Hanging fly
  • Love bug
  • Honey bee

16. which is an example of an insect that displays sexual cannibalism?

  • Praying mantis
  • Wasp
  • Long horned grass hopper
  • Hanging fly

17. Males of which species have backwards facing spikes to scrape previous sperm of a competitor male?

  • Wasp
  • Damselfly
  • Dung beetle
  • Horned scarabaeid beetle