What insect's resinous secretion is used to produce shellac?
Answer
Lac insect
16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What insect is the source of the red food dye carmine?
Answer
Cochineal
What insect's eggs are called nits?
Answer
head louse
What insect's larvae are called 'wireworms' and are agricultural pests?
Answer
click beetle
What ant has the fastest snapping jaw, with a powerful bite for its size?
Answer
trap-jaw ant
What insect was used in ancient Egypt as a symbol of resurrection?
Answer
Scarab beetle
What moth has the largest wing area of any insect?
Answer
Hercules moth
What arachnid order includes vinegaroons that spray acetic acid?
Answer
Thelyphonida
What extinct order of arachnids lived from the Silurian to Permian?
Answer
Trigonotarbida
What is the only known vegetarian spider?
Answer
Bagheera kiplingi
What is the smallest known spider species?
Answer
Patu digua
What sensory organs do scorpions have on their underside?
Answer
Pectines
What is the genus of the Brazilian wandering spider?
Answer
Phoneutria
What is the common name for the marine fish Phyllopteryx taeniolatus?
Answer
Weedy seadragon
Which fish uses weak electric fields for navigation and communication?
Answer
Elephantnose fish
Which fish species sold for a record $3.1 million at a Tokyo auction?
Answer
Bluefin tuna
What is the longest-lived fish species?
Answer
Greenland shark
Which fish can survive out of water for over three years?
Answer
African lungfish
Which fish has the largest mouth relative to its body size?
Answer
Pelican eel
What is the scientific name of the coelacanth?
Answer
Latimeria chalumnae
Which turtle species uses a worm-like appendage on its tongue to lure prey?
Answer
Alligator snapping turtle
What is the scientific name of the Gila monster?
Answer
Heloderma suspectum
Which crocodilian species is the smallest?
Answer
Cuvier's dwarf caiman
Which lizard species consists entirely of females and reproduces by parthenogenesis?
Answer
New Mexico whiptail
Which group of reptiles is unique for having a four-chambered heart?
Answer
crocodilians
What is the scientific name of the tuatara?
Answer
Sphenodon punctatus
What is the scientific name of the world's smallest reptile?
Answer
Brookesia nana
Which reptile species consists entirely of females in the wild?
Answer
New Mexico whiptail lizard
Which lizard squirts blood from its eyes as a defense?
Answer
Horned lizard
What is the smallest species of snake in the world?
Answer
Barbados threadsnake
Which turtle can survive freezing solid during winter?
Answer
Painted turtle
What extinct canid endemic to the Falkland Islands was the only land mammal native to the islands?
Answer
Falkland Islands wolf
What extinct tiger subspecies from Java was last sighted in the 1970s?
Answer
Javan tiger
What extinct ibex from the Pyrenees was cloned but died shortly after birth in 2003?
Answer
Pyrenean ibex
What Australian wallaby with a crescent mark on its thigh went extinct in 1956?
Answer
Crescent nail-tail wallaby
What bat from Christmas Island went extinct in 2009 due to habitat loss?
Answer
Christmas Island pipistrelle
What fish from the Yangtze River, one of the largest freshwater fish, was declared extinct in 2022?
Answer
Chinese paddlefish
What Australian frog species that incubated tadpoles in its stomach went extinct in the 1980s?
Answer
Gastric-brooding Frog
What is the name of the extinct frog that was the largest ever known?
Answer
Beelzebufo