Centipedes
type of feeding exhibited by centipedes
What is Carnivore?
approximate number of millipede species on Earth
What is 7,500?
approximate number of insect species on Earth
What is 900,000?
main difference between a social and a non-social insect
What is living in a colony and division of labor?
number of legs per segment on a typical centipede
What is two?
type of feeding exhibited by millipedes
What is detritus?
two main characteristics used to classify insects
What is one pair of antenna and non-branching appendages?
job in an insect society that is responsible for laying eggs
What is the queen?
approximate number of centipede species found on Earth
What is 3,500?
number of legs on one segment of typical species of millipede
What is 4?
segment of an insect's body that is adapted for movement
What is the thorax?
job in a n insect society that is responsible for fertilizing the eggs of the female
reason why most centipedes are found in moist habitats
What is because the exoskeleton isn't waterproof?
reason why most millipedes aren't found in moist habitats
What is because they lack closable spiracles?
three body segments in a typical insect
What is the head, thorax, and abdomen?
job in an insect society that is responsible for doing everything in the colony EXCEPT for reproducing
What is a worker?
location you would find a typical house centipede
What is your basement/drain?
where we would find most millipedes in our area
What is under logs/rocks in wooded areas?
number of legs and antenna that can be found on a typical insect
What is one pair of antenna and 3 pairs of legs?
chemicals that are released to communicate with a colony
What are pheromones?