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Class insecta |
Insects are arthropods |
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Insects |
Largest group of arthropod |
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Insects |
Bendable jointed appendages |
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Insects |
Segmented bodies |
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Insects |
Exoskeleton of chitin that must be molted to grow |
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Insects |
Related to spiders ticks scorpions millipedes crustaceans |
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Insects |
Head thorax abdomen |
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Insects |
Antenna 6 legs one two pair of wings |
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Insects |
Legs always connected to thorax |
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Antenna |
One pair on head. Jointed, sensory, feelers filiform is most common shape |
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Wings |
Most adults have 2 pairs called fore wings and hindwings |
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Insects that are wingless |
Silverfish, fleas, some termites and ants |
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Diptera |
FLIES |
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Beetle wings |
Hard forewing called elytra |
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Beetle wings |
Meet in straight line down abdomen |
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Beetle |
Membranous hindwings folds |
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Bugs |
Every bug is an insect but not all insects are bugs |
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Bugs |
True bugs are in the order hemiptera |
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Bugs |
Posterior thorax is triangular |
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Coleopter |
Beetles |
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Beetles |
Tough exoskeleton |
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Beetles |
Larva are called grubs |
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Beetles |
Cucumber lady bird rhinoceros beetles |
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Ephemeroptera |
Called mayflies |
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Mayflies |
Juveniles are aquatic called naiads. |
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Mayflies |
Adults reproduce and die in 24 hours |