An invertebrate that has an external skeleton, a segmented body, and jointed appendages
What is an arthropod?
An insect resting in a chrysalis or cocoon
What is a larva?
The order the moth is in
What is Lepidoptera?
The spider that makes a net small enough to hold between its legs
What is the ogre-faced spider?
A useful arachnid with one body section, eight long legs, and an appetite for plant insect pests
What is a harvestman or daddy longlegs?
Scientists who study insects
Who are entomologists?
The order the social insect is in
What is Hymenoptera?
The tough material from which the external skeleton is made
What is chitin?
The stages of of incomplete metamorphosis
What are egg, nymph, and adult?
A parasite that may cause mange in animals or scabies in humans
What is a mite?
The process of arranging animals or other things into groups
What is classification?
The order the true bug is in
What is Hemiptera?
Spiders breathe by means
What are book lungs?
This spider digs a hole in the ground, lines it with silk, and builds a trap door for it
What is the trap-door spider?
Most insects undergo a transformation in appearance known as
What is metamorphosis?
The percentage of all arthropods belong to the class of insects
What is about 90%?
The order the fly is in
What is Diptera?
The order the dragonfly is in
What is Odonata?
The spider that spends its entire life under the water
What is the water spider?
An arachnid that has a long tail with a poisonous, needlelike point on the end
What is a scorpion?
The distinct number of body regions all insects have
What is three?
The process in which an insect sheds its external skeleton
What is molting?
These help a spider to feel, hear, and taste
What are antennae?
The spider that weaves a sheet web on a small portion of the ground
What is the platform spider?
The order the beetle is in
What is Coleoptera?
The tubelike structures with which spiders squirt out long streams of liquid silk
What are spinnerets?
The largest spider in the world
What is the tarantula?
The number of legs a spider has
What is eight?
An animal that is active at night
What is an nocturnal animal?
The scientific name of an animal these two names
What are genus and species?
The number of pairs of jointed legs all insects have
What is three?
The two distinct body regions of spiders
What are the abdomen and the cephalothorax?
Many young spiders leave the nest by sailing away on silk strands by this practice
What is ballooning?
The order the butterfly is in
What is Lepidoptera?
The very poisonous spider with a dark violin-shaped mark on its body
What is the brown recluse?
The tiny hairs on a spider's body that are very sensitive to vibrations
What are setae?