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sciolympian wrote: If this is done, is it okay if you can show me how it looks like? Thanks in advance!

I wouldn't mind showing you, but do you just want a screenshot?

SOnerd wrote:

sciolympian wrote: If this is done, is it okay if you can show me how it looks like? Thanks in advance!

I wouldn't mind showing you, but do you just want a screenshot?

Yeah, that's perfectly fine! Thanks!

sciolympian wrote: Yeah, that's perfectly fine! Thanks!

I am not sure how to put in pictures (sorry!). I think I need a URL, but I don't have that.
The basic structure would be:

Homoptera (cicadas, aphids, hoppers)
Cicadidae (cicadas) 289, 290, 291
Large body size, membranous wings
3 ocelli form triangle on top of head

And then a picture of a cicada (immature and adult), and so on with each family.
Size 5 Comic Sans was very legible, much more than you would think.
I am using 4.5 this time (not bolded), so I hope that will work.

FueL wrote:Has anyone found any good field guides besides audubon, NWF, and smithsonian?

Peterson.

I just reread the official list, and with the asterisk do we have to know the larval/nymph forms of just the ones with the asterisk?
I have been adding larval forms for every family, but is that necessary?

Previously, I thought we had to know each one without an asterisk. Is that correct?

EDIT: So this would mean we don't have to know any larval forms from Hymenoptera?

You definitely don't need larval forms for all of the organisms. Only the ones with asterisks. So no, you don't need to know Hymenoptera...

caseyotis wrote:You definitely don't need larval forms for all of the organisms. Only the ones with asterisks. So no, you don't need to know Hymenoptera...

Oh okay thanks!!! That should make my notes a lot less crammed!

Are they allowed to ask us the species name of a particular insect?
Also, when a question asks for the common name of an insect, does it mean the common name of the family (e.g. Nepidae (water scorpion))? Or the common name of the insect itself?

SOnerd wrote:Are they allowed to ask us the species name of a particular insect?
Also, when a question asks for the common name of an insect, does it mean the common name of the family (e.g. Nepidae (water scorpion))? Or the common name of the insect itself?

I wouldn't say so. It didn't happen at our test at regionals.
Definitely the common name for the family. However, if the family has two or three common names, put the one that actually fits the example.

Our test was done in PowerPoint form, and we had plenty of time to flip through our guide to find the answers. We had 45 seconds to identify and 1 minute and 15 seconds to do the two multiple choice questions, which were almost always in the guide.

SOnerd wrote:Are they allowed to ask us the species name of a particular insect?
Also, when a question asks for the common name of an insect, does it mean the common name of the family (e.g. Nepidae (water scorpion))? Or the common name of the insect itself?

They're limited to what's in the list, and the list only goes down to family.

That being said, there might be a couple of species that are worth knowing, because event writers don't always follow the rules. For example, anopheles is the species of mosquito that spreads malaria. You probably won't have to identify it, but asking what species is responsible for the spread of that particular disease could potentially come up.