1. Class Insecta

2. Fast Facts More than 1,000,000 known species!
Estimated 3,000,000 more!!!!
80% of all diversity of life on Earth!

3. Qualifications Of Class Insecta
Body divided into three parts
Three pairs of legs coming out of the thorax

4. Life Cycle (s?)
Incomplete metamorphosis includes a nymph stage that looks similar to the adult
Nymph has no wings

6. Life Cycle (s?) Complete Metamorphosis includes a larva and pupa stage
Larva looks nothing like adult

8. Insects in love!
Female insects release pheromones (insect chemical locators) to attract males
Received by antennae
Also directs insects along “paths”

9. D-Fense Insects defend themselves by Camouflage Ex. Walking Stick
Stingers Ex. Bee
Sounds
And…

10. D-Fense
Mimicry (copying)

11. Insects Team Up!
Often, insects will live together in vast colonies

12. Different Jobs In ant colonies there are different jobs
Queen ant-Responsible for production of worker ants

13. ANTZ!
Worker ants- gather food, protect, feeding the larva

14. More ANTZ!
Winged Male Ants exist solely to fertilize the queen

15. Natural Selection in Moths
Natural Selection- Is the theory that the organisms that are best adapted for their environment will survive
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16. Peppered Moth
Light colored moths were popular in the early 1800’s in England.
Pollution Made the Trees Dark + =

17. Epic tale of the peppered moth
A dark moth appeared!
Soon the dark moths outnumbered the light moths!

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Natural Selection In Action!