Question: The insect head is essentially a capsule which encloses the brain and bears the usually external (ectognathous) mouthparts, the eyes and a pair of sensory antennae. The mouth part comprise basic sections as:

• 1. An ‘upper lip’ (labrum), lower (ventral) surface of which forms the epipharynx
• 2. a tongue-like hypopharynx; the jaws (mandibles)
• 3. The paired maxillae and a ‘lower lip’ (labium).
• 4. All of these

Question: Main kind of insect pests are___________________?

• 1. Major pest & Minor pest
• 2. Migrant pest & potential pest
• 3. both A & B
• 4. None of the above

Question: Desert locust is__________________?

• 1. Key pest
• 2. Potential pest
• 3. Occasional pest
• 4. None of the above

Question: Cotton bollworms, sugarcane borers are_____________?

• 1. Key pest
• 2. Secondary pest
• 3. Major pest
• 4. I do not agree with above statement

Question: All the practices used to control the pest population with in certain limit are called_________________?

• 1. Chemical control
• 2. Natural control
• 3. Artificial control
• 4. Impossible to control

Question: The use of all possible control strategies to manage the pest population below economic injury level is called:_______?

• 1. Pest outbreak
• 2. Pest resugrgence
• 3. IPC
• 4. IPM

Question: Propagation and release of sterile incompatible individuals is done in pest population is called:____________?

• 1. Chemical control
• 2. Genetic control
• 3. both  A & B
• 4. None of these

Question: Mouthparts of Sugarcane pyrilla are:___________?

• 1. Chewing
• 2. Siphoning
• 3. Biting
• 4. Sucking

Question: Gurdaspur borer is a pest of_________?

• 1. Rice
• 2. Sugarcane
• 3. Wheat
• 4. Cotton

Question: Which one of the following produces silk?

• 1. Dysdercus koenigi
• 2. Bombyx mori
• 3. Both a & b
• 4. None of the above