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| Most Dangerous Insect in the world |
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| 4 reasons insects are good |
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Pollination
Recycling
Food
Controlling pests |
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| Megaphragma Trichogrammatidae |
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mass - Goliath beetle
longest - asutrailian phasmid (25 cm)
wingspan - Atlas moth |
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running - 5 mph
flying - 25-1200+ mph |
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| insects are __% of all described animals. And __% of all described species |
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| Insects' secrets to success (6) |
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adaptable exoskeleton
small body size
short generation
early dry-land colonizers
efficient flight
metamorphosis |
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| Insect vector disease in Plants? animals? Humans? |
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plants- Pierce's disease
animals- heart worm
humans- west nile |
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Fruit flies in research:
___ human genes "misspelled" to cause diseases
___ have direct counterparts in the fruit fly |
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| Three domains of life on our planet |
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| Characteristics of arthropods (9) |
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| exoskeleton, segmented bodies, jointed appendages, ventral nerve chord, open circulatory system, bilateral symmetry. sexual reproduction, must shed skin to grow, adults to not molt |
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| Phylum Arthopoda Subphyla: Crustacea |
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| Lobsters, crabs, woodlice, "rollypollies" |
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| Phylum Arthropoda Subphlya Arachnide |
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| Spiders, scorpions, lice, ticks |
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| Characteristics of Crustaceans |
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nearly all aquatic
two pairs of antennae
gills
5+ pairs of legs
head and thorax fused |
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Suck blood out of bees
weaken bees
bee colonies die
move with drifting and robbing bees
difficult to manage |
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Spend nearly entire life in bee trachea
weaken bees, affect flight
kill be colonies
transmitted by bees drifting or robbing |
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| Class Chilopoda Centipedes have __ pair(s) of legs per segment |
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| one. (15-177 pairs total) |
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| Class Diplopoda Millipedes have __ pair(s) of legs per segment |
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| How do you know if it is an insect? (6 ways) |
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3 body regions
3 pairs of legs
compound eyes
wings, usually
one pair of antennae
trachea |
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| wings develop externally and go through incomplete metamorphasis |
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| wings develop internally complete metamorphasis |
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| Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species |
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| Order Ephemeroptera (mayfly) |
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Incomplete metamorpasis
Four triangular wings with many veins
Adults with vestigial mouthparts
Abundant in permanent freshwater habitats
aquatic immatures feed on plants/detritis
Adults typically emerge sychronously |
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| Order: Odanata (dragonflies and damselflies) |
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two pair memneous wings
chewing mouth parts
no cerci
incomplete metamorphasis |
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| Order: Plecoptera (stonefly) |
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| Order: Orthoptera (grasshoppes, katydids and crickets) |
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incomplete metamorphasis
chewing mouthparts
most males sound producing |
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| Order: Blattaria (Blattodea) |
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Many generations per year
incomplete metamorphasis |
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| Roach IPM (integrated pest management) |
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roaches trigger asthma
IPM
minimize food available
minimize water sources
caulk up cracks
dont bring them home
use sticky traps
use baits if necessary |
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Overwinter as eggs
Incomplete metamorphasis
grasping forelegs |
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| Order: Isoptera (termite) |
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soft bodied
Reproductive with four similar wings
chewing mouthparts
incomplete mouthparts |
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| Order: Phasmatodea (Phasimida) |
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incomplete metamorphasis
3 cm- 20+cm
long and slender legs not adapted for jumping digging grasping |
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Herbivorous
leg autonomy common |
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| Order: Dermaptera (earwig) |
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Incomplete metamorphasis
chewing mouthparts
prominent cerci |
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| Order: Phthiraptera (Lice) |
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Permanent ectoparasites
Incomplete metamorphasis
Tarsi modified into a claw
Chewing or sucking mouthparts |
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transmitted by close contact or sharing infested materials
cant live away from hosts
nit comb
lice shampoo
wash clothes, bedding, etc
break the cycle |
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Piercing/sucking mouthparts
Incomplete metamorphasis
economing/ecological impact: many important agricultual and human health pests. |
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| Order: Hemiptera [Suborder Heteroptera] |
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Hemi- half ptera- wing
3,834 species in N america
more than 50,000 spp worldwide
beak extending from front of head |
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| Aquatic Heteroptera families |
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Nepidae
Corixidae
Notonectidae |
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water scorpian
ambush predator
breathing tube |
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boatmen
swim upright
predators/detirivore
can live in polluted water
plastron |
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backswimmers
free swimming predatorshemoglobin
plastron |
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bed bugs
flat, oval
less than 6 mm
wings vestigial
feed on blood at night
not known to vector diseases |
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widely infesting hotels dorms homes etc
spead in used bedding luggage etc
signs
unexplained bites
spots of blood/fecal material on |
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| kissing bug transmits Chagas disease |
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trypanosoma
released in feces
Biting causes itching
affects 18-20 million
chronic infection (heart, digestive system) |
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Stink bugs
large triangular scutellum |
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family cicadidae: large insects with large wings
cicada immatures live in the ground
dog day cicada
periodical cicada |
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| Aphid transmitted viruses |
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Aphids and thrips are the most important vectors of plant viruses
Aphid and virus are more prevalent in the summer |
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| Complex life cycles of aphids |
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eggs overwinter
hatch in spring in parthenogenetic female fundatrix
viviparous birth to wingless females
birth to winged female migrate to secondary host plant |
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| Order: Coleoptera (beetles) |
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more species of any order of animals
300,000 species
23,000 in NA
Fore wings thicken leathery hard
hind wings floded underneath
chewing mouthparts |
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ground beetles
20,000 species
moist enviornment, nocturnal
found under leaf litter |
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tiger beetles
larvae predaceous |
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| Coleoptera: Family Dytiscidae |
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predaceous diving beetle
carry air bubble beneath |
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| Coleoptera: Family Gyinidae |
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Whirligig beetles
four compound eyes
often gregarious |
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| Coleoptera :family curculionidae |
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weevils
larvae typically hidden |
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leaf beetles
25,000 spp
cucumber beetlers are key pests of vine crops |
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long horned beetles
larvae typically in dead or living wood
long antannae |
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scarabs
some serious pests
whitegrubs
japanese beetles |
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| Coleoptera: Family Lampyridae |
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Lightning bugs, fireflies
produce 'cool' light |
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