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	Insect Body Parts
		The most visible parts of the body of an adult insect are: the head, the antennae, the mouthparts, the thorax, the wings, the legs, and the abdomen.
		Most adult insects have 2 pairs of wings, but some (for example flies) have only 1 pair of wings.
		Insects use the antennae to detect odours or they use them as tactile (touch) organs.
	www.bijlmakers.com /entomology/bodypart.htm (292 words)

	The Soul of the White Ant - Marais - Ch9
		When the insect has shed its skin for the last time and is full-grown, the wings begin to grow from these buds with a kind of hinge which allows for the greatest possible range of movements.
		The insect appears to be able to discard the wings by a voluntary movement of the wing itself.
		It is from this hinge that the insect breaks its wings with a lightning-like movement.
	journeytoforever.org /farm_library/Marais1/whiteantch9.html (292 words)

	Insect Collection
		Insects are invertebrates with three pairs of legs, usually two pairs of wings, one pair of antenna, jointed appendages, and three distinct body regions --- head, thorax, and abdomen.
		Place the insect pin into the soft material in the central groove of the spreading board so that the insect's wings are level with the pinning surface.
		Insects with extremely long legs like crane flies or curved antenna and abdomens like ichneumon wasps should be placed on their left side and pinned through the right side of their body in the area of the thorax.
	sps.k12.ar.us /massengale/insect_collection.htm (2251 words)

	Cornell News: Insect aerodynamics
		Biologists with high-speed video cameras have been able to document the oscillating motions of insect wings as they move up and down and change pitch by tilting the edges, and the complex motions are beginning to be incorporated in the design of robotic "insect" wings.
		Any theory of insect flight has to account for both viscous and inertial effects, Wang said, noting that in a fluid environment like air, inertia is a force due to the motion of the fluid itself as fluid particles are carried along by their own velocity.
		An important key to solving the mystery of insect flight, Wang said, is the understanding of the vortex "shedding" and how the vortices behave when they separate from the moving surface that created them.
	www.news.cornell.edu /releases/March00/APS_Wang.hrs.html (1084 words)

	Insect Misconceptions - BugNetMAP
		In reality, if an insect belongs to a group that has wings as adults, once it has wings, regardless of size, it is an adult.
		Insects produce sound through a variety of methods, but they do not emit sounds from their mouth.
		Following are just a few examples of misconceptions/misinformation that you or your students may have regarding insects and their relatives, the arthropods (e.g., spiders).
	www.umass.edu /ent/BugNetMAP/r_misconcept.html (839 words)

	The Science Tool Box: Collecting Insects
		Remove the pinned insect from the pinning block and push the pin into the middle strip of the spreading board until the base of the wings (where the wings attach to the body) is even with the spreading board.
		Collecting insects may be a good biology lesson but it must be done without endangering the environment.
		However, soft-bodied insects such as aphids, lice, mayflies, and termites, as well as immature insects such as caterpillars, and wasp and beetle larvae, have to be preserved in alcohol solutions.
	www.sciencetoolbox.com /articles/article_06-16-04.html (839 words)

	Collecting and Preserving Insects
		Once the insect is pinned you can spread the wings by placing it on the spreading board so the wings are level with the top of the board.
		The heavier bag on a sweep net is designed to collect insects in tall grass or shrubs by sweeping or beating through the plants.
		Insects are most common during summer, although they can be found outdoors from early spring to late fall.
	www.extension.umn.edu /distribution/youthdevelopment/DA6892.html (839 words)

	The praying mantis
		The praying mantis is a brown and green insect that lives throughout the world.
		The praying mantis does have a defense against predators, if seen, they open their tiny wings and show off multi-colored wings, which often scare off predators.
		The praying mantis bites and chews his meals, instead of, like most insects suck or mush their meals.
	www.allsands.com /science/prayingmantis_btj_gn.htm (839 words)

	fly
		The devotees whom we have seen hereabouts all fly ;" and the strangers answered, on the spur of the moment, "Our wings are not yet fully formed." The kingdom of Dakshina is out of the way, and perilous to traverse.
		Is it the place where we would listen to the music of the birds, and long to have wings to fly, even as they, to distant lands?
		He was fond of quoting the saying of one of his little boys, who, having found a grass that his father had not seen before, had it laid by his own plate during
	www.cooldictionary.com /words/fly.word (491 words)

	Insect Printouts - AllAboutNature.com
		Wasps are insects with 2 pairs of wings and strong jaws.
		Insects are arthropods (a type of invertebrate, animals that lack a backbone).
		The silkworm moth is an insect (not a worm) that produces a silken cocoon.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/insects/printouts.shtml (1164 words)

	Very Cool Bugs
		These insects often have a pair of elongated and thickened forewings and a membranous hind pair.
		The front wings of these insects are divided between a thickened basal region and a membranous tip.
		Stick insects are usually extremely elongated and twig-like in appearance.
	www.insects.org /entophiles (433 words)

	The Insects Home Page
		An insect is described as an air breathing animal with a hard jointed exoskeleton, and, in the adult, a body divided into three parts; the head with one pair of antennae, the thorax which carries three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings, and the abdomen which contains the guts and reproductive organs.
		You will find that insects are ubiquitous, they are in the soil beneath your feet, in the air above your head, on and in the bodies of the plants and animals around you, as well as on and in you.
		The incredible size of individual species of insects is only dwarfed by the incredible numbers in which they sometimes occur.
	www.earthlife.net /insects/six.html (1027 words)

	Scientists Online: General Facts
		The front wings of true bugs are thickened and colored near where they are attached to the insect's body, and are clearer and thinner towards the hind end of the wing.
		A: I'm not sure what the smallest insect is (I had one here somewhere, but I can't seem to find it...) but the smallest insect eggs belong to a member of the family Tachinidae, a group of parasitic flies.
		As for the name "insect," it is from Latin; the name was originally given to certain small animals, whose bodies appear cut in, or almost divided.
	teacher.scholastic.com /researchtools/articlearchives/bugs/general.htm (1294 words)

	Insects
		Insects are the only animals besides birds and bats to have wings.
		Entomologists (scientists who study insects) estimate that the average number of insects for each square mile (2.6 square kilometers) of land equals the total number of people on the earth.
		Here is a shameless promotion of insect appreciation aimed at helping you really see insects for the miniature marvels they represent and to understand how intertwined our cultures have become with these alien creatures.
	www.42explore.com /insects.htm (940 words)

	Cricket (insect) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crickets are known for their chirp (which only male crickets can do; male wings have ridges that act like a "comb and file" instrument).
		Crickets, family Gryllidae (also known as "true crickets"), are insects related to grasshoppers and katydids (order Orthoptera).
		The cricket tends to be nocturnal and is often confused with grasshoppers (which are related, but not the same), because they have a similar body structure including jumping hind legs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cricket_(insect) (410 words)

	CRICKET - LoveToKnow Article on CRICKET
		The female deposits her eggsabout 200 in numberon the ground, and when hatched the larvae, which resemble the perfect insect except in the absence of wings, form burrows for themselves in which they pass the, winter.
		The field cricket (Gryllus campestris) is a larger insect than the former, and of a darker color.
		It is exceedingly fierce and voracious, and is usually caught by inserting a stem of grass into its hole, which being seized, is retained till the insect is brought to the surface.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CR/CRICKET.htm (16985 words)

	COCHINEAL - LoveToKnow Article on COCHINEAL
		The male of the cochineal insect is half the size of the female, and, unlike it, is devoid of nutritive apparatus; it has long white wings, and a body of a deep red color, terminated by two diverging setae.
		The insects are carefully brushed from the branches of the cactus into bags, and are then killed by immersion in hot water, or by exposure to the sun, steam, or the heat of an ovenmuch of the variety of appearance in the commercial article being caused by the mode of treatment.
		Cochineal owes its tinctorial power to the presence of a substance termed cochinealin or carminic acid, C17H15O10, which may be prepared from the aqueous decoction of cochineal.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/COCHINEAL.htm (16985 words)

	Cricket, Insects, Cricket, insect, Pictures, Catalog, Encyclopedia
		Most crickets have wings, and the males (and some females) "chirp" or "sing" by rapidly drawing a filelike structure on one fore wing over a thickened vein on the opposing wing.
		Date : 3/8/2006 Time : 9:50:09 AM The cricket is a slender, chirping, jumping insect closely related to grasshoppers and cockroaches.
		Mole crickets burrow with enlarged forelegs and are pests of vegetables in sandy soils.
	www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/insectsindex.asp?counter=8 (268 words)

	scale insect on Encyclopedia.com
		The females never leave the protection of the scale after once forming it, but the adult males, which do not feed, develop a single pair of wings, leave the scale, and seek out the females, fertilizing them after the females are under the shell.
		Scale insects are classified in the phylum Arthropoda, class Insecta, order Homoptera, superfamily Coccoidea.
		Control of scale insects has been largely by use of natural enemies, especially ladybird beetles and small parasitic wasps, which are natural predators of these pests.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/s1/scaleins.asp (531 words)

	www.mrnussbaum.com - Cricket
		Crickets don't actually have voices, rather, the "chirping" sound you hear is the male cricket rubbing his wings together.
		Crickets are among the most ubiquitous insect species in the world.
		Both house crickets and field crickets are found in tall grass, mulch piles, weeds, rock piles, and logs in the wild.
	www.mrnussbaum.com /cricket.htm (775 words)

	Insects at EnchantedLearning.com
		Wasps are insects with 2 pairs of wings and strong jaws.
		The silkworm moth is an insect (not a worm) that produces a silken cocoon.
		Cicadas are flying insects that emerge periodically and simultaneously.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /themes/insects.shtml (1564 words)

	AllRefer.com - leaf insect (Zoology: Invertebrates) - Encyclopedia
		Leaf insects are green and have extremely flattened, irregularly shaped bodies, wings, and legs; they are usually about 4 in.
		Leaf insects are classified in the phylum Arthropoda, class Insecta, order Phasmida.
		AllRefer.com - leaf insect (Zoology: Invertebrates) - Encyclopedia
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/leafinse.html (1564 words)

	Insects at EnchantedLearning.com
		Wasps are insects with 2 pairs of wings and strong jaws.
		The silkworm moth is an insect (not a worm) that produces a silken cocoon.
		Bees are flying, social insects that live in a hive.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /themes/insects.shtml (1555 words)

	Scale Insects - PA DCNR
		Male scale insects are very small, have one pair of delicate wings, live only a few days, and do not feed.
		Scale insects (superfamily Coccoidea) are different from most insects in several ways.
		Therefore, many scale insect species are important pests in agriculture, horticulture, and forestry.
	www.dcnr.state.pa.us /forestry/pests/scale.htm (147 words)

	ABC Online Forum
		We have what look like volcanic eruptions with millions of flying termite queens taking to the air, the frightening thing is when you see all the shed wings at the bottom of your windows the next morning and realise that millions of termite queens are crawling around looking for a place to set up home.
		I discovered something rather remarkable - many insects and spiders were sheltering from the sun by staying on the bark of the back (relative to the sun) of Angophora costata.
		Australian Insect Farm might be the link you're after jj.
	www2b.abc.net.au /science/scribblygum/newposts/39/topic39875.shtm (147 words)

	Maine Symbols, Insect: Honeybee - SHG Resources
		Honey bees are social insects, with a marked division of labor between the various types of bees in the colony.
		Workers feed the queen and larvae, guard the hive entrance and help to keep the hive cool by fanning their wings.
		A two-day-old larva is selected by the workers to be reared as the queen.
	www.shgresources.com /me/symbols/insect (147 words)

	Description of Minibeast Zooseum facilities
		Examples of insect collecting devices such as a blacklight trap, bait trap, windowpane trap, pheromone trap and pitfall trap can be seen and there are also outdoor displays of beekeeping and lobstering equipment.
		There are dozens of other displays too, covering topics such as what's a minibeast?, minibeast champions, minibeast fossils, minibeast anatomy and classification, minibeast fecundity, growth and molting, insect metamorphosis, importance of minibeasts, endangered minibeasts, minibeast homes, and minibeast trivia (plus seasonal topics like butterfly gardening, migration, collecting and study equipment, and aquatic insects).
		There are many opportunities to exercise critical thinking, contrasting and comparing (similarities and differences), memory skills, telling time (kids of all ages are delighted by our unique musical butterfly clock that flaps its' wings and plays a song every hour on the hour and the outdoor damselfly sundial), and creative play.
	members.aol.com /YESbugs/facility.html (147 words)

	Collecting
		The project had two major parts: collecting the insects to take a survey of insects attracted to carrion, and then photogtaphing several of these insects to use on the web site.
		Many of the insects in the photo atlas on this site were collected by Duncan Sanford as part of a summer 2004 internship sponsored by the Kirtlandia Society.
		Note that the single image is focused on the main body, which leaves the wings and legs unfocused and loses clarity around fine hair structures that are often vital for identifying flies.
	inverts.cmnh.org /ForEnt/collecting.htm (147 words)

	Butterfly, insect collector earns his wings, universities concur
		Butterfly, insect collector earns his wings, universities concur
		And unlike other collectors who diversify their insects by trading or buying new species, Thurman has obtained almost all of his bugs through his own fieldwork, Ratcliffe said.
		Through a hobby that has spanned three decades and nearly a dozen countries, Thurman, 58, has amassed a collection of butterflies and insects so vast, diverse and well-preserved that two prominent university museums have agreed to accept the collection into their permanent archives.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/mesa/articles/0903ar-bugman26Z11.html (147 words)

	Damsels and Dragons - the Insect Order Odonata
		After the insect has extracted itself, a period of time, usually a couple of hours or so, elapses during which the body and wings expand and cure sufficiently to withstand flight.
		The dragonfly is an impressive insect, a master of the air, daring enough, in some cases, to hover almost within arm's reach in front of human invaders in its territory.
		During emergence, the insect can't fly away, and hence is vulnerable to numerous predators.
	uci.net /~pondhawk/odonata/ips_odonata.html (147 words)

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