Every hornet is a wasp, but not every wasp is a hornet. It's like saying to accept rat for rodent when you're being shown a picture of a rabbit. That being said, I'm not sure whether that's a hornet of some sort or a yellow-jacket in the picture (both of which are wasps).
I'm never pressing the random quiz button again. I'm just glad crane fly wasn't in there. Still a good quiz though once you put all the horrible pics to one side.
That is hilarious, except I might be a lawyer, only I plan to be a good one, not one of the ones that can be classified as blood-sucking parasites. I have far too much dignity to let that happen.
My son is an attorney and he is not a "blood-sucker". If people only realized how much pro bono work most of them do - only the greedy ones get the headlines. But in every case there is a winner and a loser, and of course the loser thinks the other party's lawyer is bad.
LOL! We always called earwigs "pincer bugs" which I would think would be acceptable if you are going to accept "roly poly". I also agree that the first pic
is a millipede. Why are people so uptight about bugs & insects?
The photograph is actually of the vinegar fly, "drosophila repleta".
The common fruit fly is "drosophila melanogaster".
It looks a bit similar, but is not the same thing. A google image search shows a couple of wrongly attributed images of the vinegar fly as the fruit fly and I think this is what has gone wrong here.
they are not the same spider as the have different red markings. The black widow has the red hour glass whereas the red back has a red stripe down the middle of its back
I have a huge garden, and I see every one of these each summer in my garden except scorpions and tarantulas. (Thank goodness.) I consider many of them friends - ladybugs, bees and wasps, praying mantises, dragonflies, and even the spiders. I could happily do without the mosquitoes, although a few catnip leaves rubbed on the skin repels them pretty well. People may find them gross but without insects to pollinate our food crops and help compost waste, we would all likely die. So next time you see one maybe say thank you instead of, 'Ew!"
The European Wasp is not native to Australia and was accidentally introduced a few years ago. It does no good and is a real menace, not only at picnics or outside dining venues etc. but is a menace to the native insects.
The ones we have here in KS look like the one in the picture. They sometimes look black, but they are actually (as far I can tell--I've caught quite a good many inside and put them outside) just very dark brown. :)
Well, a fruit fly is not usually called simply a fly. However, since they accept general answers like "bee" and "wasp" for some of the others, you'd think so. I couldn't figure out it was a fruit fly, myself. I guess I just haven't seen them that close up.
considering the word "fly" is added underneath the picture with a blank line before it indicates that a particular kind of fly is to be given as the answer
Being Australian I tried Red Back for the Black Widow; and Funnel Web for the Tarantula. But I got them right on my second goes. I wonder if all of the Aussies claiming that a Red Back and a Black Widow are the same have ever seen a Red Back? The Red Backs I have seen have had a single red stripe down the middle of a black back. The body is a similar shape to this black widow, but the legs are long and spindly and nothing like the black widow in this picture.
Just recently I found out that Termites are Cockroaches that have mutated and all the termites in the world produce 11% of the Global Methane production.
Get a grip, people. It says in the description of the quiz how exact they want the answers. Also this is an on line quiz not a biology mid term. Lighten up.
A scorpion is not really a 'bug' - which to me means insects and spiders. Weird too that specific names of the spiders and fruit fly are required but generics are accepted for other stuff. So sad that people find wild creatures 'disgusting'!
Being from Reading (UK) and eternally optimistic, I tried cheeselog for woodlouse.
It didn't work, which is disappointing but not surprising. There are so many different names for this bug and many of them are hyper-local. If Quizmaster does decide to update to include more regional terms for woodlice I'd be overjoyed - even if cheeselog doesn't make the cut :)
this is a great quiz. it's really got me humanizing these creatures. they are all valid forms of life that are not inherently disgusting or foul or frightening. it's wild that they exist at all.
Rabbit are part of the rodentia family. They’re from the leporidae family.
is a millipede. Why are people so uptight about bugs & insects?
The common fruit fly is "drosophila melanogaster".
It looks a bit similar, but is not the same thing. A google image search shows a couple of wrongly attributed images of the vinegar fly as the fruit fly and I think this is what has gone wrong here.
I wrote slater for pill bug and it worked but otherwise I would have tried woodlouse.
A cage match. I'm going with the millipede.
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/106934/creepy-crawler-pictures
It didn't work, which is disappointing but not surprising. There are so many different names for this bug and many of them are hyper-local. If Quizmaster does decide to update to include more regional terms for woodlice I'd be overjoyed - even if cheeselog doesn't make the cut :)