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Honeybee's stomach

Midgut

The ability of an animal to avoid observation or detection by other animals through camouflage in its shape or coloration

Crypsis

Specialized eyes of a bee

Compound

The muscular tube through which the flatworm can suck food into its gut

Pharynx

Flatworm structures used for excretion and osmoregulation

Protonephridia

Intermediate host of a blood fluke

Snail

Means "hundred feet"

Centipede

Centipedes class

Chilopoda

Usually have about 30 pairs of legs with some species up to 175 pairs of legs

Centipedes

Term for an organism which is mature and pregnant or full of eggs

Gravid

Intermediate host of canine heartworms

Mosquitoes

Most dangerous spider in the U.S.

Black widow and brown recluse

Insects which carry the plague

Fleas

Brown spider which bears a violin-shaped dorsal stripe on their cephalothorax

Recluse

The main part of the body of a tapeworm made up of smaller repeated units

Strobila

The most common parasitic worm infection in people worldwide; also known as "wandering worms"

Ascaris

Individual segment of a tapeworm body; contains muscles, nerves, and sexual organs neccessary to survive and reproduce

Proglottid

Having a head area

Cephalization

The jaw of an arthropod

Mandible

Parasite known to cause Schistosomiasis

Blood fluke

The projections on a planarian which give the anterior end its triangular shape

Auricles

Anterior structure on a tapeworm; used for attachment

Scolex

External circular rings marking each body segment of a segmented worm

Annuli

A thick, muscular sac-like organ of the digestive system that grinds food into small pieces

Gizzard

This blood vessel pumps blood anteriorly towards the head of an earthworm

Dorsal

Type of circulatory system found in most Annelids

Closed

The fluid-filled coelom serves as this type of skeleton

Hydrostatic

A stretchy sac-like organ of the digestive system that holds materials temporarily

Crop

Substance secreted by a leech to prevent the host from feeling its presence

Anaesthetic

Body system which uses hormones to regulate reproduction and regeneration

Endocrine

Type of contractions which allow a worm to burrow

Peristaltic

The lobe around the mouth

Peristomium

Earthworm waste products which enrich soil

Castings

Longer, leg-like paired bristles which aid aquatic forms in swimming

Parapodia

These arthropods are the number two disease vector in the world

Ticks

Slow-moving, herbivorous animal that may roll into a coil when disturbed and have two pairs of legs on each trunk segment

Millipede

This arachnid is commonly known as a daddy longlegs

Harvestman

The wingless, worm-like stage of an arthropod during complete metamorphosis

Larva

Extremely venomous spider found in Australia

Funnelweb

Disease carried by Anopheles mosquitoes infecting hundreds of millions of people each year and causing millions of deaths

Malaria

A chronic, disabling disease caused by a bacterium and carried by the deer tick

Lyme disease

Type of venom that acts on the nervous system

Neurotoxin

The study of insects

Entomology

Name of simple eyes in an arthropod

Ocelli

Nicknamed "living fossils"

Horseshoe crab

Crayfish have these large pincers used in defense and capturing food

Chelipeds

Type of flies which carry African sleeping sickness

Tsete

Specialized body regions modified for specific purposes

Tagmata

This crab has the largest leg span of any arthropod

Japanese spider crab

The most life-threatening canine worms

Heartworms

Short stiff needlelike bristles which help anchor body segments during locomotion

Setae