Insects

							By: Ms. Vu and Ms. William’s 4th Grade Class (Sommer)
Dragonfly
                           Walking stick
Grasshopper
                           Yellow Jacket
Spiders, insects or not?   Butterflies
Beetles                    Stinkbug
Honey Bees                 Flea
Mosquito                   Cockroach
Ant
Cricket
Praying Mantis
Termite
Scorpion
                         Have you ever seen a dragon-
                       fly? If you have, you probably noticed
                       how it darts around at amazing
                       speeds. It flies fast to catch its food.
                       While flying the dragonfly curves its
                       legs into a basket which it uses to
                       catch other flying insects (flies, gnats,
 By: Noe Brown         and mosquitoes). Then the dragonfly
                       puts the prey into its mouth which has
                       very strong teeth. Other times it will
                       hover over a stream in search of food.
                       After mating the female dragonfly will
                       lay the eggs in a nearby river or
                       stream. Sometimes the male
                       accompanies her on this trip. The
                       dragonfly has four veined wings, eyes
Back to The Table of   that cover most of their head, thin
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                       legs, and one shiny exoskeleton.
                         The grasshopper is an insect with
                       three body parts. It has a small head
                       which consists two long antennae and
                       two small eyes. Its thorax is slender and
                       long although its abdomen is short and
                       stubby. When the female lays its eggs it
                       digs a small hole in the field that it lives
                       in which is three to two centimeters
   By: Chad Punch      deep with one of its organs called a
                       ovipositor. The grasshopper lays sixty to
                       eighty eggs at a time. The eggs are
                       seven to eight mm in length and are
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                       light orange in color.
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                                                 By: Alexander
                                                 Young


No, spiders aren’t insects. They are arachnids. Some spiders can
  grow to be as big as your hand. There are also other kinds of
  spiders like the Fisher Spider, Boas Spider, Crab Spider, Raft
  Spider and Wolf Spider. Arthropods make up over 75% of the
   world’s animal species. Arthropods include animals such as
    insects, crustaceans and arachnids. The largest group of
     Arthropods are the insects. The next largest group is the
 crustaceans including centipedes and millipedes. Arthropods
have limbs with joints that allow them to move. They also have an
exoskeleton, which is a hard, external skeleton. Their body cavity
  contains the nervous system, circulatory system, reproductive
                   system and digestive system.
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                                                       By: Salvador Tamayo




             Have you ever seen a beetle? Well, I have. It’s your
      turn. Beetles are called insects or you could use its scientific
     name Coleopteran. Beetles have four wings. There is a way
        to know if it is an insect. Count the legs. Beetles have six
     legs. If you see an animal with more than six or less than six
       legs that means it is not a insect. Coleopteran is by far the
        largest of the insect orders. At the latest count, there were
       some 2,900 described species in the world. More are being
     identified and cataloged every year. This is about one third of
      the total number of insect species in North America. North of
     Mexico there is about 2,800 species of beetles. Since insects
     are the most numerous of all the earth’s creatures the beetles
                     are the numerical world champions.
            Beetles are neat, because they fly and crawl very well.
                          They are so cool and small.
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                                               By: Denzel Davis

   The honey Bee lives in large colonies of flat wax based
honey- comb hanging vertically. My insect works by a certain
age. From a series of glands on their abdomen, they use wax
to form the walls. They cap the comb. My insect moves from
place to place. When walking you can see light colored
pollen baskets on the honeybees rear small legs. Honeybees
are covered with outer hair on them. My insect eats nectar
from flowers. Honeybees survive winter as a colony .The
queen begins egg laying in winter to prepare for Spring.
Color varies, but generally they are yellow with brown stripes.
Their coats are furry short hair they are 1.3cm (1/2inch). Their
legs are not generally visible while flying. The Bee dies after
stinging.
        Honey Bee honey is sweet, but the stinger is not.
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                                                By Di’mon

  Hello my name is Mosquito. I live in the United
States, and sometimes I go to Florida. I fly around and
bite people. I fly around to get from place to place, and
sometimes I land on the ground. I am covered by an
exoskeleton. I eat blood from animals and people for
my eggs to develop. I am no longer poisonous, but I
carry diseases. If I were poisonous, you would get
infected. I lay eggs so that I can hatch my babies. My
body parts are my head, thorax, abdomen. I have two
narrow wings, feathery antennae, and I am supported
by a slender neck. Beware of my bite, I love blood.
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  By Avionna



    The most distinguishing trait of an ants behavior is sociability.
Ants do not act individually. They behave according to the needs
of the colony in roles dictated by the castle into which they are
born. The life cycle of the ant generally has four stages: egg,
larva, pupa, and adult. Most ants live from 6 to 10 weeks.
Although certain queens may live for as long as 15 years, and
some worker ants live for 7 years. Some ants can have up to
three queens. The queen lays all the eggs, while the workers just
work. The queen feeds her babies with her own saliva. There are
thirty –five thousand kinds of ants in this world. The ant’s
exoskeletons are on the outside of their body. The ant’s
exoskeleton is made of chitin. Ants are also one of the smallest
animals on earth. Hold on to your food at a picnic, because I will
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  By Ashton



              Have you ever seen a real live cricket before? I have, they are very
interesting. Scientists today have found at least 1,000 different kinds of crickets.
  Most crickets do not fly although rough, hard, shiny wing covers lie across the
  back. Under the outer wings are two tiny wings that are useless for flying. But
 crickets can jump long distances and they are very quick. Crickets eat on plant
  foliage, but they will eat other small insects. The most common field cricket of
       the United States and southern Canada is black and at least 1 inch (2.5
     centimeters) long with antennae longer than its body. In the summer time,
 crickets live in fields, beneath wood, rocks, or other debris. It digs a burrow that
  has a tiny chamber at the end. The burrow is used for shelter when the cricket
     is not feeding. In the season of Fall, the female cricket deposits egg in the
    ground that hatches in the following summer time. But crickets are different
  from other insects. Crickets do not go through pupa development stages after
   hatching from the egg. In these stages the baby cricket looks nothing like an
    adult cricket. The outer covering of a cricket is an exoskeleton. Listen to my
                       cricket sound. It will bring you good luck.
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                                         By Haley
               Do you know what a Praying Mantis is?
A Praying Mantis is an insect that lives in North America.
 Some people say that they are very bad bugs, but they
 are a really a big help to the world. They get rid of all of
 those pesky bugs. My insect has an exoskeleton. They
   use their long front legs with spines for catching and
    holding their prey. My insect can not fly that's why it
    catches its prey that way. The insect has body parts
   such as antennae, thorax, abdomen, legs, head and,
         spines on their front legs. Also my insect is not
 poisonous like some people think. They are almost only
    green and brown. Now you almost know everything
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                                                   By Luke
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  The Termite lives in wood or dirt. It also eats wood and dirt.
 It has three body parts, the head, abdomen, and thorax. Did
 you know that a queen termite can lay 75,000 babies a day?
    Did you know that a king termite just sits around doing
  nothing ,and it’s with the queen all the time? Well, they do.
The soldier termites defend the king and queen and the hive.
     Some of the termites are in Africa and South America.
 Termites have an exoskeleton, which means a skeleton out
side of his body. They can do a lot of damage to your homes,
because they eat wood. The worker termite just works all day
 and night working for the king and queen to make the hive
bigger. Sometimes the worker takes the queens eggs to one
         of the places in the hive for the them to grow.
   That’s what you need to know about a termite, but watch out for them,
By Adam



                 Have you ever seen a Scorpion?
   Scorpions live in warm,dry regions throughout the world.
 They hide by day and hunt by night. Their covering is straw-
    colored and a shiny black. Scorpions eat by their claws.
    Their hollow spine allows the poison to be squeezed into
   their pray. Scorpions lay about 40 eggs. You will only see
  two Scorpions together if they are fighting or mating. After
   mating the female will kill and eat the male. Scorpions are
 relative of spiders, ticks, mites, and crabs, together they are
 a class of Arachnida. They have exoskeletons. The Scorpion
  has a head and a thorax together with the legs, tail and the
 claws. Scorpions crawl to place to place. The babies live on
     their mother’s back for a few days before they hunt for
            themselves. Scorpions real name is Scorpionida.
Back to Table of Contents   Watch out for the scorpion bite. It is deadly.
                   By Kourtney
     Have you ever seen a walking stick before in your life?
   The walking stick lives in the rainforests. They also live in
warm places. The walking stick is able to cling on a plant and
look like a stick. The insect is a camouflage color. This insect
  moves very slowly. It eats the leaves of a blackberry plant,
  and it also eats its own molt. Walking sticks lay there eggs
    under the ground, they remain there tell they hatch. The
   walking stick has a head, along body, legs, antennae, and
 their camouflage color makes them look like a stick. Walking
sticks are measured about 2 to 3 three inches long. Kentucky
  men use walking sticks on the farm to help watch for other
             animals like snakes and other critters.
    Beware of the walking stick. You may pick it up, look at it,
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  By Nathaniel
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    A yellow jacket lives in stuff found on the ground like
paper, plastic and other things. Some yellow jackets stay
at home, because it has rained. They can’t fly in the rain,
  so the yellow jacket stays home and takes care of the
    nest and the baby yellow jackets. When the yellow
   jackets get hungry, and it’s not that wet, they will fly
 place to place. Sometimes yellow jackets have yellow
   with black stripes, and others have black with yellow
 stripes. Sometimes they can be poisonous, but you will
   not get really sick. Sometimes the yellow jacket lays
their eggs in their nest. A yellow jacket has head, thorax,
                        and abdomen.
              Yellow Jackets were fun to study.
                   By Angelica
    What is the first thing that comes to your mind when the word “butterfly” is
mentioned? Well, most people would think that they are about as fun and exciting
as blank piece of paper! Actually, they are very interesting in many different ways.
  The butterfly transfers from one place to another by flying. Once they get to the
    place, which can be especially in open or disturbed locations such gardens,
  dunes, and old fields, they go from flower to flower and drop the pollen into the
flowers. They get the pollen from the first flower and drop it in the next. The pollen
                 pollinates the flower so that it can grow new flowers.
   Butterflies lay eggs when they are caterpillars; they lay them under a fresh leaf
   and then take off. Butterflies prefer nectar from 3-6 feet high plants, especially
    cosmos, thistles, red clovers, blazing star, and other plants and flowers. My
     insect the butterfly is not poisonous. It is a help to all flowers. One of the
    beautiful butterflies is the painted lady butterfly. It has an outer covering of
  colors. The upper side of the wing is orange brown with darker wing bases. The
  fore-wing has a black patch and white bars on the leading edge. The hind wing
  has a row of five small black spots and some blue scales. The under side has a
   black brown and gray pattern with four eyespots. Every insect has three body
       parts: the head, the thorax and the abdomen and so does the butterfly.
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                            By Gabriel

          A stink bug lives in the United States and parts of
    Southern Canada. They emit a terrible odor. The stink bug
     has six legs they crawl and fly. They eat cabbage, cotton,
    and nearby roadside vegetation. A stink bug does lay eggs.
   The eggs are yellow to green and very tiny. They emerge into
     nymphs and eventually are fully grown in host plants. The
     adult stink bug has four wings and a triangular speculum.
     Many stink bugs are brightly colored or have conspicuous
                                marks.
      I had fun learning about the stinkbug, but please don’t use
                           it for perfume.
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                                               By Anthony

     Do you want to know about my insect? If you do, he sucks yours
blood and will bite you. When my insect is on a dog, he starts to search
  everywhere to find a nice spot to suck its blood. If you hear your dog
 bark and start to scratch himself, that means a flea has just sucked his
 blood. They will suck until they run out of breath. Does your dog sleep
with you and then go outside? If so, he might have fleas. So you better
 check him until you scrub all the fleas off. My insect lives in all sorts of
places. For example: holes and grass. My insect lays eggs. Its eggs are
   the size of a pinhead. My insect’s body parts are abdomen, thorax,
  head, and it has no wings. The body is thin and flat, they have fragile
legs so they can jump. There are more than 2400 species of fleas world
wide, and almost all of them are really tiny, tiny.           Before people
   started bathing everyday, fleas were just an ordinary part of life for
                     humans, and everyone had them.
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      By Brittney




 Cock roaches are the most common roaches in the world. They live in sewers,
basements, and may move outdoors into yards during worm weather. They also
  can live in your house and underneath your sink. American cockroaches are
   reddish brown and have a yellowish on the body regions be hind the head.
They feed on a wide variety of plant and animal material they also eat crackers.
Cockroaches are not poisonous they are common roaches. My Insect moves to
   place to place by flying or climbing walls female cockroaches produce egg
   cases and carry them protruding from the tip of the abdomen for about two
  days. Egg cases are then generally placed on a surface in a hidden location.
 My Insects body part egg cases are 3/8 inch’s long, brown, and purse shaped.
 Immature cockroaches emerge from egg cases in 6 to 8 weeks and producing
average of 150 young. Cockroaches are also know as water bugs and palmetto
          bugs are among the most difficult household pests to control.

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