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Question 1 of 10
It turns out that the yellow stripe on Vespa orientalis's exoskeleton is a kind of solar battery. What is Vespa orientalis?
Question 2 of 10
The Namib desert beetle lives in a part of Africa that gets just 40 mm of rain per year. Where does this beetle get its water?
Question 3 of 10
Australian entomologists named a new horse fly, which has golden "hair" on its rear end, for what "bootylicious" former Destiny's Child singer?
Question 4 of 10
True bugs are in the order Hemiptera, so the June bug ain't no real bug. What is it?
Question 5 of 10
Crikey steveirwini is a rare land snail from what country, also home to the person for which it was named?
Question 6 of 10
Thanks to its hepatopancreas, slow metabolism and its ability to eat a massive amount in one sitting, some desert species of what arthropod can eat just one meal a year?
Question 7 of 10
Nicknamed Conan the Bacterium, the polyextremophile Deinococcus radiodurans holds what Guinness World Record?
Question 8 of 10
In the 2010s, Mirjana Filipovic trained what insect to associate the sugar it loves with the TNT in land mines we hate?
Question 9 of 10
Two new species of microscopic termite parasites, discovered in 2013, were named Cthulhu macrofasciculumque and Cthylla microfasciculumque. If they are like the namesakes of the genuses, what could be said of them?
Question 10 of 10
Hank and Henrietta Housefly fall in love, get married and have themselves a pile of maggots. Miraculously, none of their descendants fall prey to parasites, predators or the natural vicissitudes of a food chain with billions of flies in it. How many flies show up for the family reunion four months later?
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