Taxa
This order of insects makes up 40% of all insect and 30% of all animals.
What is Coleoptera?
All bugs are insects, but not all insects are bugs. This order is comprised of the TRUE bugs
What is Order Hemiptera?
Shedding of the cuticle
What is Ecdysis?
This is the name for a sclerotized mass of eggs.
What is an ootheca?
An insect with tiny hairs on their feet to walk on the surface of water
What is a Water Strider?
This order is known for its "copulatory wheel" mating behavior.
What is Odonata?
There is a myth, or maybe just a misconception, that all members of these insects die after stinging.
What are honey bees?
(Only the workers.)
An aquatic nymph
What is a naiad?
This is the reproductive structure in female insects.
What is an ovipositor?
The organization dedicated to making the rules for how animals are named
Who is the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature?
This class contains a gnathal pouch and is the smaller of the two classes we covered.
What is Class Entognatha?
What are earwigs?
(They crawl in ears, but do not lay eggs.)
This is the only order in Class Insecta that is ametabolous (that we've covered).
What is Zygentoma.
This is the name of the sclerotized male genetalia in insects.
What is an aedeagus?
It has the largest wingspan of all extant insects
What is the American Owlet Moth?
All members of this suborder produce sounds/vibrations with a tymbal acoustic system
What is Auchenorrhyncha?
There is a myth that these bugs burrow under your skin, causing their characteristic itchy bites in summer time.
Chiggers
(It's just a bite!)
This is the term for a developmental stage between molts.
What is instar?
This structure is a modified female genetalia that removes egg-laying ability and provides protection.
What is a stinger?
The first bee species to be considered endangered in the US
What is the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee?
This order with a short prothorax only has winged species in tropical regions.
What is Phasmatodea?
You might count the spots on this tiny beetle to calculate it's age, but you'd be better off looking for "M" marking of its invasive (biting!) doppelgänger.
What are lady bugs?
(Their spots do not equal their age)
What is a larvapod?
A specialized diverticulum off of the genital chamber
What is the bursa copulatrix?
This insect formed an association with Sumac tress 48 million years ago
What are aphids?