Creepy-Crawlies I Quiz

Okay, another quiz.
This one, on creepy-crawlies, will make you appreciate my soap Babes and Female Recording Artists a bit more !
The creatures are insects, parasites, bugs etc – mainly tiny predators.
Imagine if they developed into human size – they’d rule the earth with a vengeance !
No spiders have been shown, to spare any arachnaphobics amongst you.
1pt for each recognised. First lot of 10, one more lot after this.

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10.

Good luck !

[milhouse]

tommo said:

Okay, another quiz.
This one, on creepy-crawlies, will make you appreciate my soap Babes and Female Recording Artists a bit more !

Always appreciate them Tommo ;D ;D ;D

[H&J]

3. Dragonfly
4. hover fly
5. Mosquitto
8. white fly
9. looks like a stick insect
10. dust mites
okay then try liver flukes

We might have known that Harry the Spider and Jill would speak with authority on the subject of insects !

Correct answers have been given to 3,4,5,8 & 9. Half-point for no.10, they do look very much like dust mites, but these are parasitical to a favourite animal of this website ! ;D

Leaderboard:

[glow=red,2,300]H & J 5.5pts [/glow]

[H&J]

10. head lice
7. silk worm i think

Well, 10 is really Sheep-lice, but I think you've done enough to earn the other half-point.
And 7 - spot on with silkworm.

[glow=red,2,300]H & J 7pts[/glow]

1,2 & 6 are the only ones now left.

[Kevin Pringle (R.I.P.)]

1. Giant Leopard Moth

[Chris_Sav]

2) Elephant Beetle??

KP correctly identifies the Giant leopard month. 1pt.

Sav's answer for 2) is incorrect but gets 0.5 as it is from the correct sub-division of insects (Coleoptera).
The elephant beetle has a similar long snout -as shown in this picture - however your one is black and mine is lighter in colour and has a more specialised diet.

Leaderboard:

1. H & J 7pts
2. KPringle 1pt
3. Sav 0.5pts

[Chris_Sav]

Ah but of course!!! Its an Acorn Weevil ;D

Well done, that's the other half of the point.

Just the rather difficult number 6 now to get, so think I will up the stakes and allow 2.5 for a correct identification.

1. H & J 7pts
2= KPringle 1pt
2= Sav 1pt

sav said:

Ah but of course!!! Its an Acorn Weevil ;D

..................... ;D which was of course a popular cause of malfunction in these :

[Kevin Pringle (R.I.P.)]

Not as good as my BBC Model 'B' I still have and find very useful at times :)

[H&J]

with the help of a colleague at work
6. a scale insect

Well done Jill, Scale insect is correct.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_insect

A rather nasty little pest which latches onto your plant and just keeps eating and eating. They reproduce like mad as well.

The 2.5 points for that as promised.

Quiz ended thus :

1. H & J 9.5pts
2= KPringle 1pt
2= Sav 1pt

[H&J]

thanks for the extra points, butI did have help from a Tutor at work, so..... only half points perhaps.........

No I think your answer was value for money by whatever means it was arrived at. ;)
I would never have got it myself, which is what I measured the points by !