Sci. Name -Stagomantis Carolina
Praying Mantis eats other insects,
though it is not uncommon for larger
Praying Mantis to eat small reptiles and
birds.
Praying mantis can be found in all parts
of the world with mild winters and
sufficient vegetation. Praying mantis
will spend most of their time in a
garden, forest or other vegetated area.
When threatened, praying mantis stand tall and spread
their forelegs to allow them to penetrate the target, with
their wings fanning out wide and mouths open.
Praying Mantis can get as small as 4mm
They are able to turn their head 180 degrees for excellent
vision and hearing
Live mainly in fields and
meadows
Sci. Name - Tettigoniidae
They feed of off smaller
insects such as katydids
and aphids.
Long-horned grasshoppers have
very long thin antennae. Most are
cryptically colored and are active
at night and are noisy.
Grasshoppers have no ears. They
hear with an organ called
tympanum.
Grasshoppers
have five eyes.
Sci. Name - Danaus Plexippus
Monarch butterflies are totally
dependent on milkweed during
their larval stage. After eating
the egg from which they hatch,
the tiny caterpillar begins eating
milkweed leaves.
Monarch Butterflies fly through Indiana for
milkweed. They are generally found all around
the World.
Each adult Monarch butterfly lives only
about four to five weeks.
Monarch females can lay
several hundred eggs, usually
laying a single egg on a plant.
The eggs hatch about four days
after they are laid
The Monarch is one of the longest
migrating creatures on Earth
Sci. Name – Drosophila primaeva
Fruit flies are primarily attracted to fresh fruits
and vegetables and those fermenting because of
yeast.
At the end of summer they can be found in
many homes.
Adult females can lay up to 500 eggs
Often used as pet food supply.
Drosophila Bifurca (a type of
fruit fly) have the longest sperm
of any organism on earth. 6cm!
Sci. Name – Coccinela novemnotata
Lady bugs live generally
in gardens, which they
benefit.
Lady Bugs eat Aphids
Lady Bugs are bright colors because most animals
see bright colors as a potential threat of poison.
Lady bugs vary in size from
1mm to 10mm.
Lady Bugs are also
called lady Birds and
lady beetles.
Sci. Name – Lepisma saccharina
Silverfish are pests and live under rocks, bark a
leaf molds, and in the nest of other animals.
The diet of the silverfish includes: Starch,
Polysaccharides, such as dextrin in
adhesives.
Silverfish can go up to one year without
food.
Silverfish live up to 4 in a half
years.
Silverfish infestations can cause
home damage.
Sci. Name – Euborellia Annulipes
Earwigs are nocturnal and stay under rocks
most of the day.
Earwigs feed off of various garden plants and
flowers and dead insects.
Earwigs get their name from the European
superstition that, while you are asleep they entered
your brain, this is unproven.
During the winter Earwigs can tunnel up
to six feet into the ground to escape the
cold.
Even though the earwigs pinchers look
potentially harmful they are actually
harmless.
Sci. Name - Ctenocephalides Cannis
Dog fleas feed off of blood,
whatever that will take it (Dog, cat,
rat)
Dog fleas are found mostly on
warm blooded animals.
The dog flea population consists of 50 percent
eggs, 35 percent Larvae, 10 percent Pupae and 5
percent Adults.
Adult dog Fleas are
about 2-7mm long
and brownish in
color.
Some fleas can jump
150 times their own
length.
Sci. Name - Gromphadorhina Portentosa
Cockroaches live in a wide range The cockroach consume
of Environments all over the mainly any/everything it can
World. come across.
A 2005 The earliest
national cockroach-like
study show fossils are
that from the
cockroaches Carboniferous
worsen the period between
symptoms 354-295
of asthma, millions years
more than ago.
other known
symptoms
A human can
withstand a
measure of 5
rems(a measure
of radiation)
safely, 800 being
the lethal dose.
Where a
cockroach’s lethal
dose is 67,500!
Sci. Name - Atta Caphalotes
Leaf cutter
ants eat
fungus, from
which they
get a garden
that they
grow them
selves.
Leaf cutter
ants stay in
colonies
The ants carry leaves to
there colonies
Grow there own food in
a type of garden and
contains several of
these gardens in each
colony each with an
average life span of
about 3-5 weeks
Sci. Name – Dolichovespula Maculate
Bald face hornets eat caterpillars
and flies
Bald face hornets are located in the
Northern United States
The workers expand the nest by
chewing up wood that mixes with a
starch in their saliva, which they
spread with their mandibles and
legs to dry into paper.
It is closely related to another type
of insect called the yellow jacket
Wasp.
The bald face hornet has unique
white and black design which is
different from the usual yellow and
black colors the majority of
hornets have.
Sci. Name - Pholidoptera Griseoaptera
The dark bush cricket is
found anywhere where
there is coarse vegetation
with plenty of bramble
thickets or other
undergrowth in which to
hide away or sun
themselves. It is commonly
found throughout the built
up areas of the city,
particularly in gardens.
The dark bush Crickets eat both leaves and other invertebrates
The Dark Bush-cricket is
very active and spends
most of the day in scrub
and overgrown grassy
areas from which it
chirps incessantly
throughout the day and
well into dusk.
Females lay their eggs in late
summer into rotting wood or bark
crevices where they overwinter.
The Body length of the male and female
bush cricket is 10-20 mm.
Sci. Name – Apis Mellifera
The Honey Bee is found all
around the United States
The Honey Bee eats mostly on royal
jelly.
The queen eats only royal jelly,
the worker bees eat some royal
jelly and the drones eat the least
amount.
When the bee stings, the stinger,
poison sac and several others
parts of the bee's anatomy are
torn from the bee's body. It soon
dies.
Honey bees fly about 12 to 15
miles per hour.
Sci. Name - Paragomphus cognatus
Dragonflies typically eat
mosquitoes, midges, flies,
bees, butterflies, and other
small insects.
Dragonflies are usually found
around lakes, ponds, streams,
and wetlands, because their
larvae, known as nymphs, are
aquatic.
Dragon flies have excellent vision do to their
compound eyes.
In some Native American tribes
dragonflies represent swiftness
and activity, and for the Navajo
they symbolize pure water.
Dragonflies are considered evil in
some European countries.
Sci. Name – Acalymma Vittatum
Aphids eat sap of phloem vessels in
plants.
Aphids are found all over the
World.
Aphids are minute plant-feeding insects.
Females undergo a modified meosis that
results in eggs that are genetically identical to
their mother.
Aphids have been known to
have what is called
telescoping generations. the
parthenogenetic, viviparous
female aphid will have a
daughter within her who is
already parthenogenetically
producing its own daughter at
the same time.
Sci. Name - Aedes aegypti
Eat blood
Yellow Fever Mosquitoes mainly live in
these states: Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky,
South Carolina, North Carolina,
Virginia, New York, Delaware, Maryland
and the District of Columbia. Western
states Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana,
Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri,
Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas
historically the primary vector for the viruses
that cause human dengue and yellow fever.
Mosquito larvae are aquatic.
As most know Mosquitoes are
out only in the summer.