Do you know your Insect Orders?
Grasshoppers Insect Orders Isoptera Termites Diptera Dippy May Flies Mnemonic Common Name Isoptera Termites White, like Ice Flies, Gnats, Mosquitoes Diptera Dippy Ephemeroptera effeminate May Flies Hymen Thin tissue Bees, Hornets & Wasps Hymenoptera Oh, the Knot Looks like a knot in a rope Odonata Dragonflies Orthoptera Grasshoppers HOP
Lacewings Butterflies & Moths Lepidoptera Coleoptera King Cole Beetles Order Mnemonic Common Name Butterflies & Moths Lepidoptera Leopard Spots Coleoptera King Cole Beetles Hemiptera Half-wing True Bugs Leafhoppers & spittle Bugs Homoptera Home on the range Der Map Maker in ears of corn Dermaptera Earwigs Neuroptera Nerve Wing Lacewings .
J ointed Legs E xoskeleton S egmented Body V entral Nerve cord D orsal Heart
Adult What is the Larva Type? Fly Maggot Mosquito Wiggler Beetle Grub Caterpillar Butterfly/Moth s Aphid Lion Lacewing
Entomology: Molting The study of Insects Approximately 1 million Species Identified Molting Shedding the exoskeleton
Development Direct or Ametabolous Egg Young Adult Metamorphosis: Change of Shape Incomplete Metamorphosis Egg Nymph Adult Complete Metamorphosis Egg Larva Pupa Adult
Red Hemoglobin in our blood carries Oxygen Humans have a Closed Circulatory System Blood remains inside blood vessels Red Hemoglobin in our blood carries Oxygen Insects have an Open Circulatory System Their Blood is transparent
Arthropods Trilobites Chelicerates Mandibulates Extinct No Jaws Jaws are Chelicerae: They Bite Vertically Spiders and their kin Mandibulates Jaws are Mandibles: They Bite Laterally Labiates have lips covering their mandibles Crustaceans Have no lips
Male moths can smell this odor ten miles away! ______________the odor given off by a female insect to attract a mate or unify a colony. Male moths can smell this odor ten miles away! Pheromone
Casts of Honey Bees Worker Queen Drone Female Barbed Sexually Immature Stinger Unique Worker Female Barbed Sexually Immature Makes Pheromone Mother of the hive Queen Female Smooth Largest Eyes Can’t feed himself Drone Male None
_____________: that part of a Man-made hive accessible to the queen. Brood Comb Supers are added above Brood Comb
Round Dance Food is nearby UP means fly toward the sun Waggle Dance Angle reveals direction Dance time reveals distance
Persistent Pesticides Don’t go away. They don’t decompose naturally. DDT Concentrate as they move up the food chain Chlordane and Contaminate Groundwater & Wells Biodegradable Pesticides Pesticides Decompose naturally Sevin Decomposes in YOU Rotenone Decomposes in the Soil (14 days) Pyrethrin Decomposes on exposure to Sunlight Controls Biological Controls Natural Enemies and Diseases of Pests BT (Bacillus thuringiensis) Controls Caterpillars BTI (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) Controls Mosquitoes Grasshopper Spore For Grasshoppers
Antenna Chela Antennule Compound Eye Carapace Telson Uropods
Maxillapeds Gonopods Pleopods
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