My How You've Grown | Arachnids | Insect Info 1 | What's in a Name Part 1 | Where do I belong? |
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What is a cocoon?
structure that moths spend their pupal state in
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What is eight?
Arachnids have this number of legs
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What are antennae?
an insect’s sensory organs
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What is an Atlas Moth?
the largest of its order, and a species of the giant silkworm moth family
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What is an arachnid?
this group includes spiders, mites, scorpions, and ticks
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What is molting?
the process through which an insect sheds its external skeleton
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What is the abdomen?
one of two sections of an arachnid's body that does not contain eyes
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What are drones?
male bees are called by this name
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What is a brown recluse spider?
a type of poisonous spider from North America that has a dark, violin-shaped marking on its cephalothorax
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What are decapods?
ten-footed crustaceans
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What is a nymph?
immature form of an insect that resembles the adult but has different body proportions and lacks wings
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What is the cephalothorax?
this body region, or section of an arachnid that contains the eyes
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What is an ovipositor?
a female insect’s egg-laying structure
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What are a barnacles?
crustaceans that attach permanently to an object in adulthood
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What are copepods?
a crustacean with only one, simple eye on top of its head; found as plankton in both marine and freshwater environments
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What is larva?
the wormlike growing stage of complete metamorphosis
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What are book lungs?
the respiratory structure of arachnids that has “pages” that exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide
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What are sensilla?
hair-like sensors that tell the insect about its surroundings
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What are woodlice (or pill bugs, sow bugs, or roly polies)?
the only terrestrial crustaceans
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What is Coleoptera?
the largest order of insects
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What is the pupa?
the resting stage of an insect's life cycle when the body tissues reorganize to form wings, legs, and new mouthparts
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What are the chelicerae?
this pair of appendages is what an arachnid uses for seizing and crushing prey
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What are elytra?
a beetle’s hard forewings that fit closely over its body like a shell
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What is a millipede?
a wormlike arthropod with a rounded body and two pairs of jointed appendages (walking legs) per segment
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What is Hemiptera?
the order in that true bugs belong to
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