NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 2 APPROXIMATE TIME: 50 minutes

EVENT PARAMETERS: Teams may bring 1) one identification guide, 2) student developed notes and handwritten or printed resourdes that can be hole punched and attached to the rings of 1” binder that fit in an area no larger than 12” x 12”x 1.5” and 3) pre-printed stick-on labels (order and family only). Students may not use any electronic devices.

THE COMPETITION: 

1. Each team will be given an answer sheet on which they will record answers. Students may bring and

use resources for identification (printed or photocopied with illustrations and diagrams).

2. Insect specimens, or images (nymph or larva for selected orders and families) will be exhibited so that students will be able to see pertinent features with the unaided eye, a hand lens or a dissecting microscope.

3. For the specimens, questions may also be asked concerning the economic or health impact of the specimen upon the human race.

4. Process skills may include observations, inferences, data and diagram analysis, dichotomous keys.

5. One of the stations may involve students using or formulating a simple dichotomous key. ~

SCORING:

The team with the highest number of correct answers will determine the winner. Selected questions may be used as tiebreakers.

Division B/C - Common Orders-Specimens will be come from this Official list of 26 insect orders:

A. Protura (proturans)

B. Collembola (springtails)

C. Diplura (diplurans)

D. Thysanura (silverfish)

E. Ephemeroptera (mayflies)

F. Odonata (dragonflies, damselflies)

G. Plecoptera (stoneflies)

H. Orthoptera (crickets, grasshoppers, katydids)

I. Phasmatodea (walking sticks)

J. Mantodea (mantids)

K Blattodea (cockroaches)

L. Isoptera (termites)

M. Dermaptera (earwigs)

N. Mallophaga (chewing lice)

0. Anoplura (sucking lice)

P. Thysanoptera (thrips)

Q. Hemiptera (true bugs)

R. Homoptera (aphids, cicadas, hoppers)

S. Neuroptera (dobsonflies, lacewings, antlions)

T. Coleoptera (beetles)

U. Mecoptera (scorpionflies)

V. Trichoptera (caddisflies)

W. Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths)

X. Diptera (flies)

Y. Siphonaptera (fleas)

Z. Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps)