Scaled wings covered with a powdery substance found on butterflies and moths.
What is order Lepidoptera?
Insects have these two different types of eyes for sight and for detecting light.
What are both compound eyes and simple eyes?
Spiders are found in this class of phylum Arthropoda.
What is class Arachnida?
Insects with tough, horned wings that protect a pair of membranous wings and generally cover the entire body.
What is order Coleoptera?
The two structures of the insect's body used in respiration in place of lungs or gills.
What are spiracles and the trachea?
Grasshoppers and crickets with leathery wings covering a set of membranous wings.
What is order Orthoptera?
Located between the stomach and intestine, these glands secrete enzymes to further break down food.
What are digestive glands?
The arthropod uses these sensory organs for taste, touch, and smell.
What are antennae?
These are the four characteristics common among insects.
What is 3 pair of legs, 1 pair of antennae, 3 body segments, usually wings at some point in their life?
Insects with a social order and membranous wings .
What is order Hymenoptera?
These are covered by the carapace and allow for gas exchange by movement of the walking legs.
What are gills?
In this system, the heart pumps blood into vessels which then empty out directly into cavities throughout the body.
What is an open circulatory system?
Spiders usually have 4 pairs of this type of eyes.
What are simple eyes?
The insects with a pair of membranous wings for flying and a second set for balancing.
What is Order Diptera?
Located at the base of the antennules, these contain a grain of sand which detects balance in the crayfish.
What are statocysts?
Arthropods all have this vital organ running from the ganglia to the posterior of the body.
What is the ventral nerve cord?