Better out than in!
What is an insect's lower lip/jaw called?
Labium
I use this organ for listening.
Bonus: where am I located on a grasshopper?
Tympanum
Bonus: forelegs
This is used for light detection
Ocelli
If I'm a grasshopper, I have ______ mouthparts
Chewing
T/F: The prothorax has one pair of wings and one pair of legs.
False, it only has one pair of legs. No wings.
What are the three major body parts of insects?
Head, thorax and abdomen
If I'm an annelid, I have ________ circulatory system, but if I'm an insect, I have ________ circulatory system.
Closed, open
Mole crickets have _____ legs.
Fossorial
I'm a silverfish, what type of metamorphosis do I have?
Ametabolous
Name the three groups of animals with powered flight.
Insects, birds and bats.
Name the type of eyes insects have and what multiple lenses are called.
Compound eyes, ommatidia
I have at least 2 pairs of legs per segment, which I have so many of!
Millipede
The phylum that insects belong in
Arthropoda
I am the powerhouse of an insect. All the legs and wings are attached to me.
Thorax
I am between the coxa and femur.
Trochanter
I am found at the end of the midgut and at the beginning of the hindgut. I assist with absorbing waste in the hemolymph. I'm practically the "kidney" of an insect.
Malpighian tubules
My subphylum has two body parts and 4 pair of legs.
Chelicerata
This organ can help with detecting the wing pitch frequency of female mosquitoes.
Johnston's organ
The two main hormones involved with molting.
Ecdysone and Juvenile Hormone (JH).
These receptors can be found on mouthparts, foregut, and tarsi. What am I and what do I detect based on where I'm located?
Chemoreceptors, taste.
I have a very red pigmentation and spill it everywhere when killed. My pigmentation is used as a dye for clothes and in food! What am I?
Cochineal scale insect
I have 5 pairs of legs, 2 pairs of antennae, and 2 body regions.
Crustaceans
The development of new types of living organisms from pre-existing types by the accumulation of genetic differences in a population over long periods of time.
Evolution
The instars in my lifecycle are called larvae, I have a middle stage called pupa, and I look nothing compared to the beginning. What type of metamorphosis do I have?
Holometabolous (complete metamorphosis).
Three reasons (out of more) that allow insects to be successful.
High reproduction rate, they have wings and can fly (utilize different types of niches), their size, their exoskeleton, sociality, metamorphosis.