why are insects important to flowers?
because they are pollinators of plants
Deadly spider that has a violin-shaped marking on its cephalothorax
brown-recluse
The larger order of insects
coleoptera
Class of arthropods that includes spiders, centipedes and millipedes
arachnids
To what family do the most dangerous mygalomorph spiders belong?
funnel-web
Grup of arthropods that includes animals with very hard crusty exoskeletons
crustaceans
List the 3 types of bees
drone, workers, and queen
Tell 3 diseases carried by mosquitoes
encephallitis, yellow fever, malaria
Group of crustaceans that are bioluminescent
krill
give 2 examples of animals that are crustaceans
crab, shrimp, crayfish
Tell 2 diseases carried by houseflies
dysentery and typhoid fever
what is a bug?
an insect with piercing-sucking mouthparts and member of the order (group) Hemiptera
The most important job of entomologists
to find a way to control insect pests
Plating a field with one crop during one year and a different crop the next year, is a pratice known as....
crop rotation
Tell 2 differences between a centipede and a millipede
1) centipede has 1 pair of legs attached to each segment, millipedes have 2 pairs in each segment 2)centipede is carnivorous, millipede is herbivorous 3) centipede has poison, millipede does not 4) centipede has flat body, millipede has round body