1. Insect - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia insects (Class Insecta) are a major group of arthropods and the most diverse group of animals on the Earth, with over a million described species—more than http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect

Insect From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Insects Fossil range: Devonian - Recent Western honey bee (Order Hymenoptera Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Class: Insecta Linnaeus Insect anatomy A B C - Abdomen antenna ocelli (lower) 3. ocelli (upper) compound eye 5. brain (cerebral ganglia prothorax 7. dorsal blood vessel tracheal tubes (trunk with spiracle mesothorax metathorax forewing ... hindwing 13. mid-gut (stomach) 14. dorsal blood vessel ("aorta") 15. ovary hind-gut 17. anus 18. vagina 19. nerve chord (abdominal ganglia) Malpighian tubes 21. tarsal pads 22. claws tarsus tibia femur trochanter 27. fore-gut (crop, gizzard) 28. thoracic ganglion coxa 30. salivary gland subesophageal ganglion 32. mouthparts Insects Class Insecta ) are a major group of arthropods and the most diverse group of animals on the Earth, with over a million described species —more than half of all known living organisms —with published estimates of undescribed species as high as 30 million, thus potentially representing over 90% of the life forms on the planet. Insects may be found in nearly all environments on the planet, although only a small number of species occur in the

2. Insects On The Web The fascinating stories of insects and the roles they play in our lives. Cultural entomology, insect macrophotography, educational resources and links to http://www.insects.org/

The insects.org web site is designed, researched and produced by Dexter Sear at I/0 Vision This site aims to help you really see insects for the miniature marvels they represent and to understand how intertwined our cultures have become with these alien creatures. I am getting closer to releasing a new section of Class Insecta to include a collection of insects on stamps. Stay tuned. Send me an email Stunning insect macrophotography combined with informative descriptions. Insects play a major role in almost every aspect of human culture. Useful educational resources including information about butterfly wing patterns. Categorized and reviewed links to other insect - related web sites and resources.

3. Insect Printouts - AllAboutNature.com Insect Printouts. Print out animal pages/information sheets to color. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/printouts.shtml

Advertisement. EnchantedLearning.com is a user-supported site. As a bonus, site members have access to a banner-ad-free version of the site, with print-friendly pages. Click here to learn more. Become a member of Enchanted Learning. Site subscriptions last 12 months. Click here for more information on site membership. $20.00/year or other amount (directly by Credit Card $20.00/year or other amount (via PayPal $20.00/year or other amount (for sending a check by mail $20.00/year or other amount (for subscribing by school purchase order As a thank-you bonus, site members have access to a banner-ad-free version of the site, with print-friendly pages. (Already a member? Click here. EnchantedLearning.com Animal Printouts Go to Online Animal Coloring Pages A B C D ... Animal Report Graphic Organizers Click on an animal to go to that printout. For the top 25 printouts, click here Insect Printouts Insects are arthropods (a type of invertebrate , animals that lack a backbone). All insects have a hard exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax, and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae. The legs (and wings, if applicable) are attached to the thorax. Insects breathe through holes called spiracles. Insects hatch from eggs. Insect means "segmented" in Latin. There are about a million different types of insects and many more that have not been discovered yet. Insects (Class Insecta) are currently divided into

4. Let's Talk About Insects Explains what is and isn t an insect. Includes the parts of the body, how they eat, see, and breathe, why insects are helpful and when they are pests. http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/insects/01.html

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5. Koday's Kids Amazing Insects One of the best insect sites on the internet for kids! Lots of great insect pictures and facts. Great information for insect projects! http://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4TH/KKHP/1insects/bugmenu.html

Koday's Kids Amazing Insects! All About Insects Praying Mantis Swallowtail Butterflies Firefly Dragonfly Damselfly ... Black Widow Spider OK, a spider is not an insect, but these photos are so awesome, I had to add the Black Widow Spider to the Amazing Insect site! Click on the insects to get some great information and see lots of excellent photographs! You'll see some of the best insect photos on the internet and find great facts for your science reports. Go to Koday's Kids Homepage Koday's Kids Amazing Insects has been selected as a "Best of the Bugs" WWW site by the University of Florida! Other Insect Websites: Helen's World of Nature Photography - Don't miss this wonderful collection of insect photos! John Foltz Web Pages - University of Florida Entomology Dept. - Lots of insects Clemson University Entomology Department - Lots of photographs! Cornell University Insect Control Homepage - Excellent site with lots of insect information and photos! Don't miss it! Butterflies and Their Larval Plantfoods - University of California, Irvine - Great photos and information on butterflies www.thais.it - entomology

6. The Insects Home Page The Wonderful World of insects, introducing the insect in all its amazing variety, with links to the many more detailed pages that make up this site. http://www.earthlife.net/insects/six.html

News Flash A New Insect Order Is Discovered There is much excitement in the entomological world at the momement as a new order of insects has just been discovered. To find out more visit the National Geographic news page. There are well over 1 million different known species of insects in the world, and some experts estimate that there might be as many as 10 million. All these species are divided up into about 32 orders, depending on whose taxonomic system you use, of which, the largest is the Beetles, or Coleoptera, with 125 different families and around 500,000 species they are an incredibly diverse group of animals. In fact, one in every four animal species on this planet is a beetle. Well, everywhere on land anyway, very few insects have colonised the sea, though some like the Marine Flies ( Halobates sp .) and the Seashore Collembolan, Anurida maritma , live on the surface. Also the larva of a small number of True Flies (Diptera) and Beetles (Coleoptera) live beneath the surface, mostly in rockpools. On the land however there isn't anyhere you can go that you can't find some insects, even in the frozen extremes of Arctica and Antartica you will find some insects alive and active during the warmer months.

7. Insects, Insect, Insect Anatomy At LiveScience.com LiveScience.com explains insects, insect, insect anatomy, household insect and cricket insect. http://www.livescience.com/insects/

All About Insects The most diverse group of animals on the planet, insects are generally classified as any of numerous invertebrate animals that are a member of the phylum Arthropoda, and of the class Insecta. Modern insects range in size from less than a millimeter to over 18 centimeters in size. An insect’s adult body in characterized by three pairs of legs and a body segmented into a head, thorax, and abdomen, and usually two pairs of wings. Virtually all insects are born from an egg laid by their mother. Some of the most common and well known insect species include flies, crickets, mosquitoes, beetles, butterflies, and bees. There are approximately 5,000 dragonfly species, 2,000 praying mantis, 20,000 grasshopper, 170,000 butterfly and moth, 120,000 fly, 82,000 true bug, 350,000 beetle, and 110,000 bee and ant species that have been discovered to this date, for a total of more than 925,000 species. It is estimated that there could be as many as 15-30 million species of insects that have yet to be discovered by science. The scientific study of insects is also known as entomology. For more insect information, including information on insect anatomy, household insects and insect identification, simply click on any insect article, insect picture, or other interactive insect feature below.

8. Insects > Franklin Institute Educational Hotlists insects and Humans. insects and Human Society Impact of insects on Human History Insect-Themed Food insects as Food Get This Bug Off of Me http://www.fi.edu/learn/hotlists/insects.php

Resources for Science Learning Home For Learners For Educators Leadership ... About Us Franklin Institute Educational Hotlists For Learners Hotlists Insects Hotlist Insect Species The South Carolina Butterfly Project Painted Lady and Red Admiral Butterfly Scorpions The Singapore Scorpions Page ... Beekeeping : The Beekeepers Homepage Beetles Beetles and Crickets Shapes and Colors from The World of Beetles The Beautiful World of Butterflies ... Termites Insects and Humans Insects and Human Society - Impact of Insects on Human History Insect-Themed Food Insects as Food Get This Bug Off of Me Background Information and Facts Bugscope Orkin Insect Zoo Class: Insecta CyberBee Network ... Online Insect Museum Images Most Wanted Bugs Insect Photographs from Clemson University Insect Drawings Gallery Images of Insects ... Insect Macrophotography Teacher Resources Entomology for Beginners (Primary Grades) Iowa State Entomology Index : K-12 Educator's Recommended Sites search Search the entire Franklin Institute website: today's braindrop - Nautical archaeology is the science of finding, collecting, preserving, and studying human objects that have become lost or buried under water. More Braindrops...

9. Insects Easier insects are small creatures (animal kingdom) with three pair of legs, a body with three main sections, and tough shell-like outer covering. http://42explore.com/insects.htm

The Topic: Insects Easier - Insects are small creatures (animal kingdom) with three pair of legs, a body with three main sections, and tough shell-like outer covering. Insects do not have a backbone. Most have one or two pair of wings and a pair of antennae. Harder - Insects first appeared on earth at least 400 million years ago. Today, they live almost everywhere, from steamy tropical jungles to cold polar regions. Entomologists (scientists who study insects) estimate that the average number of insects for each square mile (2.6 square kilometers) of land equals the total number of people on the earth. Scientists have identified and named more than 11/2 million species of animals. Of these, about 1 million are insects. Entomologists discover from 7,000 to 10,000 new species of insects each year. Some believe there may be from 1 million to 10 million species still undiscovered. In the world of entomology, there are still vast frontiers of knowledge still to be discovered. All insects have three pairs of legs, a body divided into three main parts (head, thorax, and abdomen) and an exoskeleton. The insect's muscles are attached to the inside wall of the exoskeleton. The exoskeleton does not grow with an insect; therefore in time, the exoskeleton becomes too tight and must be shed in a process is called molting. Most adult insects have two large compound eyes, made up of separate, sometimes thousands of lenses. Insects are the only animals besides birds and bats to have wings. Most adult insects have two (flies) or four wings (wasps). Their sense of smell is located chiefly in the antennae. A few insects, like ants, bees, and wasps, also have taste organs on their antennae.

10. Insect Lesson Plans Insect Library Prepare your classroom for a unit on insects by collecting books, magazines and pamphlets on insects, entomology, etc. http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/Insect.htm

11. Virtual Insects Collection of virtual insects. http://www.ento.vt.edu/~sharov/3d/virtual.html

Home Virtual Insects CAVE Insects Stereoscopy ... Help Other web pages of Alexei Sharov Virtual Insects and a Spider QuickTime plug-in is needed to see movies; CosmoPlayer (for Windows) or Worldview (for Macintosh) plug-ins are needed for the VRML. See Help for more information about plug-ins. If you want to see VRML images in stereo on a PC, you need shutter-glasses and 3Space Assistant software. The size of VRML files is shown on the right. Pages with movies also contain links to information about the insect you are viewing. See if you wish to use our images. Ant Stag Beetle German Cockroach Mosquito Grasshopper Water Strider Flea Mantis Termite Yellowjacket wasp Fly Bee Black widow spider Animated/Interactive Images Running Cockroach Flying wasp Highlighting body parts We bought 13 insect images from Viewpoint Labs and then modified them to increase biological accuracy. Alexei Sharov

12. USDA Agricultural Research Service Living Fossil Is Half Insect, a Half Worm, and All Hunter Yucky Maids All in a Row That Plant s Toast (When insects Attack, Some Plants Fight Back ) http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/insects/insectintro.htm

Thanks Granddad! Folklore and Modern-Day Science Could Mean Bad News for Biting Bugs Eat Yourself Sick Some Bees Clean Up WellWithout Soap Look Out, You Flying Bugs The Killer Fly Is On The Loose! ... That Plant's Toast (When Insects Attack, Some Plants Fight Back...) Back to:

13. Insects Unit For Teachers - Links To Printables, Lessons, Ideas, Books, And More If you are doing a insect unit with your class, then you have come to a great place to get insect lessons, poems, printables, links, books, and much more. http://www.teachingheart.net/teachinsects.html

If you are doing a insect unit with your class, then you have come to a great place to get insect lessons, poems, printables, links, books, and much more. Click on an underlined topic and use your back button to return to this page! Insect Poems, Fingerplays, and Songs! Bug Poems , Fingerplays, and Crafts Bug Fingerplays ... Bumblebee Footprint or Paper Shapes Craft To get you started on an insect unit, start by checking out some of these general sites! 3-D Insects Welcome to the digital world of insects. The Bug Club For young entomologists Butterfly Links Page The Butterfly WebSite Here you can tour the photo gallery, learn how to plant a butterfly garden, take a field trip, find a pen-pal, chat with other butterfly-lovers and so much more! Children's Butterfly Site Insects as Food Recipes for insects Very Cool Bugs The Wonderful World of Insects Yucky Bug World Insects Bulletin Board Get Crafty! B utterfly Art at Crafts An' Tiques How to Make a Butterfly Garden Stuffed Newspaper Butterfly Caterpillar to Butterfly ... Lots of Buggy Crafts Here!

14. Insects insects on the Web This site aims to help you really see insects for the miniature marvels they represent and to understand how intertwined our cultures http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/insects.html

Insects Research/Informational Sites Alien Empire - From Nature on PBS TV. Requires Flash, QuickTime, and Real Player. Amazing Beetles Amazing Insects Project by Koday's Kids! Anatomy of a Grasshopper - Printout and information. Antboy's Bugworld - Check out all these links. Bug ID - Do you have a bug that needs to be identified? This is the place to go. Bug Mugs: The 12 Most Wanted - Click on a picture to see a mug shot and a rap sheet (information on the insect). Butterflies - My hotlist page. Butterflies - Theme page from the Electric Teacher. California's Endangered Insects Children's Butterfly Site Crickets Crickets - Care Sheet and general information Get This Bug Off Me - Information on insects that are not harmful. Grasshopper Poems Hey, What Bit Me - From Kids' Health...Click on the appropriate hyperlink. Insecta, Inspecta World - "The building of Insecta Inspecta World was the culmination of a year long research activity (by seventh grade students) conducted under the review of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution". Insect Biology and Ecology - Scroll down to view all the text..

15. Insects Quality Sites that contain information about insects. http://www.kidinfo.com/Science/Insects.html

The Web's Best Homework and Student, Teacher/ Parent Reference Resource Animal Search Engine Animal Search The Internet Search Engine for Everything Animal ; Use this search engine to find links to animal information Animal Encyclopedias Insectclopedia An enclypodia about ALL insect s Links to ALL insects NatureServe - An Online Encyclopedia of Life Specific Insect Sites Bugs A website devoted to insects with information and photographs Insect Hotlist Links to information about all types of insects All Insects Arthropods Photographs, important facts and information, life history, ecology, glossary Bug Club Home Page For students with an interest in bugs and creepy crawlers, facts, information, and fun Bugs in the News Articles about bugs, creatures great and small, a microscopic look at bugs

16. Iowa State University's Tasty Insect Recipes Insect recipes tastetested by brave college students for your culinary pleasure. http://www.ent.iastate.edu/misc/insectsasfood.html

Insect Recipes Bug Blox Banana Worm Bread Rootworm Beetle Dip ... Insect Recipes Iowa State University's Tasty Insect Recipes As featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno! National Broadcasting Corporation Recipes compliments of Kathy Gee and Julie Stephens (pictured above with Jay Leno) and the Iowa State University Entomology Club Click at left for more information! Iowa State University Entomology Department . Last modified August 14, 2000 by John VanDyk

17. ENature: FieldGuides: Insects And Spiders eNature Field Guides to insects and Spiders Comprehensive guide to America s insects and spiders with species pictures, field descriptions, http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/intermediate.asp?curGroupID=4

18. ADW: Insecta: Information With around one million named species and perhaps several times that number unnamed, insects account for a great majority of the species of animals on earth http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Insecta.html

Overview News Technology Conditions of Use ... Home Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Insecta Class Insecta insects Information Pictures Specimens Sounds ... Classification editLink('skunkworks/.accounts/200310302537') 2008/03/16 04:51:07.189 GMT-4 By Phil Myers Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Members of this Class With around one million named species and perhaps several times that number unnamed, insects account for a great majority of the species of animals on earth. They are a tremendously successful group. Insects can be found in almost all terrestrial and freshwater habitats, from the driest deserts to freshwater ponds, from the canopy of a tropical rainforest (where their diversity is unbelievably great) to the arctic wastes. A few species are even marine. Their feeding habits are similarly varied; almost any substance that has nutritive value is eaten by some group of insects. Insects also show huge variety in shape and form. Almost the only condition their group does not attain is very large body size. A number of features, however, are shared by most kinds of living insects. In addition to the general characteristics of uniramians, these include a body composed of three tagmata, a head, thorax, and abodmen; a pair of relatively large compound eyes and usually three ocelli located on the head; a pair of antennae, also on the head; mouthparts consisting of a labrum, a pair of mandibles, a pair of maxillae, a labium, and a tonguelike hypopharynx; two pairs of wings, derived from outgrowths of the body wall (unlike any vertebrate wings); and three pairs of walking legs.

19. Insecta The relationships of primitively wingless insects to each other and to winged . Nomina Insecta Nearctica. A Checklist of the insects of North America. http://www.tolweb.org/Insecta

Under Construction Containing Groups Hexapoda Arthropoda Bilateria Animals ... Life on Earth Other Hexapoda Collembola Protura Diplura Insecta Subgroups Pterygota Archaeognatha Thysanura Insecta Insects This tree diagram shows the relationships between several groups of organisms. The root of the current tree connects the organisms featured in this tree to their containing group and the rest of the Tree of Life. The basal branching point in the tree represents the ancestor of the other groups in the tree. This ancestor diversified over time into several descendent subgroups, which are represented as internal nodes and terminal taxa to the right. You can click on the root to travel down the Tree of Life all the way to the root of all Life, and you can click on the names of descendent subgroups to travel up the Tree of Life all the way to individual species. For more information on ToL tree formatting, please see Interpreting the Tree or Classification . To learn more about phylogenetic trees, please visit our Phylogenetic Biology pages.

20. Information Sheets The information sheets provide helpful facts about the insects called for in the Center for Insect Science Education Outreach The University of Arizona http://insected.arizona.edu/info.htm

Information Sheets The information sheets provide helpful facts about the insects called for in the lesson plans. Each insect's information sheet includes a section on identifying features natural history impacts on the ecosystem , and tips on collecting . Images of the insects in their different life stages are also included. Arthropods: general Insects: general Data Collection Info Ants ... Lesson Plans Information Sheets Rearing Sheets Bibliography Center for Insect Science Education Outreach The University of Arizona Contact: CISEO http://insected.arizona.edu

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