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2 What is not an insect?

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4 What is it?

5 What is it? Myriapoda (house centipede)

6 What is it?

7 What is it? Hexapoda six legs (caterpillar) false legs (prolegs)

8 What is it?

9 What is it? Chelicerata (spider) just another leg

10 What is it?

11 What is it? Hexapoda (aphid) siphunculus

12 What is it?

13 What is it? Crustacea (isopod)

14 Part 1/3 Thysanura (silverfish) Pterygota things with wings Odonata (damselflies, dragonflies) Neoptera things that fold their wings Dictyoptera net-wing [ ] Mantodea (mantises) Blattaria (cockroaches) Isoptera (termites)

15 Thysanura: silverfish cerci caudal filament

16 Pterygota things with wings

17 short antennae Odonata: damselflies and dragonflies dragonfly damselfly

18 Neoptera things that can fold their wings

19 Dictyoptera net wing mantises, cockroaches, termites

20 simple eyes compound eyes Mantodea: mantises

21 Blattaria: cockroaches long filiform antennae cerci pronotum

22 Isoptera: termites z alate (winged reproductive) monoliform (beadlike) antennae

23 QUIZ #1

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25 Odonata Dragonfly or damselfly? damselflies

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27 Thysanura

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29 Isoptera

30 Part 2/3 Neoptera things that fold their wings [ ] Phasmatodea (stick & leaf insects) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, katydids, crickets) Phthiraptera (lice) Hemiptera [ ] Heteroptera ( true bugs) Homoptera (cicadas, aphids)

31 Phasmatodea: stick insects

32 katydid katydid grasshopper cricket Orthoptera

33 How do they hear? tympanum katydid grasshopper cricket Orthoptera

34 Phthiraptera dorsoventrally flattened; tarsal hooks; biting/sucking mouthparts

35 Hemiptera Homoptera + Heteroptera true bugs

36 Heteroptera: bugs X wings (Heteroptera + Homoptera = Hemiptera)

37 Heteroptera: bugs leaf-footed bug shield bug water strider X wings bed bug

38 Homoptera: cicadas & relatives tent wings (Heteroptera + Homoptera = Hemiptera)

39 Homoptera: cicadas & relatives tent wings aphid planthopper (Heteroptera + Homoptera = Hemiptera)

40 QUIZ #2

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42 Orthoptera katydid/cricket or grasshopper/locust? short antennae tympanum? hooded grasshopper

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44 Homoptera (thorn-mimic treehopper)

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46 Orthoptera (mole cricket) tympanum

47 BONUS ROUND! You re not an ant

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49 Orthoptera katydid/cricket or grasshopper/locust? long antennae katydid

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51 Mantodea

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53 Homoptera (ant-mimic treehopper)

54 Part 3/3 All of these have complete metamorphosis! Endopterygota things with metamorphosis Coleoptera (beetles) Hymenoptera (wasps, bees, ants) Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths) Siphonaptera (fleas) Diptera (flies, mosquitoes)

55 egg larva pupa adult complete metamorphosis (holometabolism)

56 egg larva pupa adult complete metamorphosis (holometabolism)

57 egg larva pupa adult complete metamorphosis (holometabolism)

58 nymph incomplete metamorphosis (hemimetabolism) adult

59 incomplete metamorphosis (hemimetabolism) complete metamorphosis (holometabolism)

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61 hemimetabolism holometabolism

62 Endopterygota things with metamorphosis

63 Coleoptera: beetles elytra pronotum scutellum

64 Hymenoptera: bees, ants, wasps hamuli distinctive pinched abdomen

65 Lepidoptera: butterflies and moths butterfly

66 Lepidoptera: butterflies and moths moth butterfly

67 Lepidoptera: butterflies and moths moth butterfly

68 Lepidoptera: butterflies and moths moth butterfly

69 Lepidoptera: butterflies and moths moth butterfly

70 Diptera halteres

71 Siphonaptera sucking mouthparts; jumping legs; laterally flattened

72 QUIZ #3

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74 Heteroptera

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76 Hymenoptera (honeypot ants)

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78 Coleoptera (giraffe weevil)

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80 Hymenoptera (wasp)

81 BONUS ROUND! You re not a wasp

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83 Lepidoptera Butterfly or moth? moth

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85 Diptera

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87 Lepidoptera Butterfly or moth? moth

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89 Coleoptera

90 BONUS BONUS ROUND! Camouflage

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92 Blattaria

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94 Orthoptera (katydid)

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96 Lepidoptera (butterfly)

97 Know what you don t know Dermaptera (earwigs) Neuroptera (lacewings) Mecoptera (scorpionflies) Trichoptera (caddisflies) Strepsiptera (twisted-wings) Raphidioptera (snakeflies) Megaloptera (alderflies) Psocoptera (barkflies) Thysanoptera (thunderflies) Zoraptera (angel insects) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Notoptera (rock crawlers) Embioptera (webspinners)

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