What are some really disgusting facts about insects?

Answer 1

Bug excretions are used in shellac to cover jelly beans. The Japanese Giant Hornet can spray poison that will melt your flesh and they try to shoot it in your eyes. The bot fly ends it's reproductive cycle by embedding a fat, half inch maggot in your flesh. Also, the American cockroach has been found to feed on toenails, eyebrows, eyelashes, and hair of children while they sleep. Roaches also can carry 33 types of bacteria's, have pathogens and can have six types of worms that are parasites. The largest earthworm was 22 feet long.

Answer 2

''COOL FACTS ABOUT INSECTS''

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Ok the thing is there stingers, flying ones, groud ones {the ones who prefer ground}, different names to.lets get started on some

>The beetel-Of this great number of insects, nearly half are beetles. Unlike other insects, beetles have a pair of leathery protective wings called elytra.

There are more than 800,000 species of insects on earth, more than all the other plants and animals combined. Of this great number of insects, nearly half are beetles. Unlike other insects, beetles have a pair of leathery protective wings called elytra that cover their membranous flight wings. During flight, the elytra are spread apart and the two flight wings are unfolded and extended. Beetles come in a variety of shapes and colors, from red "ladybugs" and metallic green fig beetles to lightning beetles that glow in the dark and huge horned beetles resembling a miniature rhinoceros. Colorful beetles are used for jewelry and pins, and shiny tropical scarab beetles are strung together to make unusual necklaces. Beetles range in size from less than a millimeter (1/100 of an inch) to tropical giants over six inches long. The largest giants may weigh 40 million times more than their lilliputian relatives.

ants-

All About Ants

Ants have been living on the Earth for more than 100 million years and can be found almost anywhere on the planet. It is estimated that there are about 20,000 different species of ants. For this reason ants have been called Earth's most successful species. Ants build many different types of homes. Many ants build simple little mounds out of dirt or sand. Other ants use small sticks mixed with dirt and sand to make a stronger mound that offers protection from rain. Western Harvester ants make a small mound on top, but then tunnel up to 15 feet straight down to hibernate during winter. Ant mounds consist of many chambers connected by tunnels. Different chambers are used for nurseries, food storage, and resting places for the worker ants. Some ants live in wood like termites. Army ants don't make a home at all but travel in large groups searching for food. Sociology: Ants are social insects, which means they live in large colonies or groups. Some colonies consist of millions of ants. There are three types of ants in each species, the queen, the sterile female workers, and males. The male ants only serve one purpose, to mate with future queen ants and do not live very long. The queen grows to adulthood, mates, and then spends the rest of her life laying eggs. A colony may have only one queen, or there may be many queens depending on the species. Ants go through four stages of development: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Anatomy: Ants have three main parts. The head, the trunk(middle section), and the rear or metasoma. All six legs are attached to the trunk. The head consists of the jaws, eyes, and antennae. The eyes of ants are made up of many lenses enabling them to see movement very well. The antennae are special organs of smell, touch, taste, and hearing. The metasoma contains the stomach and rectum. Many species of ants have poison sacks and/or stingers in the end of the metasoma for defense against their many predators. To see a diagram and learn more about ant anatomy visit our Ant Anatomy page. Organs:Ants do not have lungs. Oxygen enters through tiny holes all over the body and Carbon Dioxide leaves through the same holes. There are no blood vessels. The heart is a long tube that pumps colorless blood from the head back to the rear and then back up to the head again. The blood kind of coats the insides of the ants and is then sucked into the tube and pumped up to the head again. The nervous system of ants consists of a long nerve cord that also runs from head to rear with branches leading to the parts of the body, kind of like a human spinal cord. Communication: If you watch ants for any length of time you will see that they really do communicate with each other and very effectively too. Ants communicate by touching each other with their antennae. Ants also use chemicals called pheromones to leave scent trails for other ants to follow. An ant observatory lets you watch and learn about the fascinating world of ants in your own home. Life Studies will be happy to get you started. We have everything you need including an Ant Observatory and Instructional Video about ants. We will also send you some good tunneling ants tunneling ants (Western Harvester ants) for your observatory. Use these links to find out more about ants and start your own observatory.

-butterflysThe butterly lays an Egg on the leaf of a Milkweed plant.

A Caterpillar is born. He eats the leaves of the plant for food.

The caterpillar creates a Chrysalis around its body.

After some time, a Butterfly comes out of the chrysalis

Butterflies, along with their close relatives the moths, are insects. Together, they are the most numerous type of insect. The butterfly belongs to the order of insects called lepidoptera. Insects that are in the lepidoptera order have four wings and these wings are covered with scales.

All insects go through changes as they grow and get older. Metamorphosis is the word that describes the changes that insects go through. Butterflies go through big changes to get to the final stage of being a butterfly

Butterflies usually fly during the daytime. Most of us have all seen a butterfly at one time or another. If you have seen many butterflies, you have probably noticed that they all have bright colorful wing. However, all butterflies are not the same. There are many different kinds of butterflies. In the lepidoptera order, scientists believe that there are between 100,000 and 200,000 different kinds of butterflies and moths. In this Web Quest, we have looked at three different butterflies.

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Our Story: My wife and I were discussing what to do for our son's fifth birthday party. The thought of paying money for birthday clowns, bounce-houses, and cartoon characters were not appealing to us and there seemed to be few available educational venues that also offered entertainment for children's parties. My son loved animals, especially bugs. So I decided to put together a "bug show" and be the creepy crawly entertainment. I did a great deal of bug research, caught many bugs (some caught me), and the birthday bug show was a hit! My wife is a third grade teacher and one of her teacher friends who was at the birthday party asked if I can do the creepy crawly bug show for her second grade class. I agreed. I took a personal day off from my job as a creative director of an advertising agency and did the bug show. In that classroom there was a behaviorist who was monitoring a child. The behaviorist loved the bug show and told her friend who was a principal at another elementary school. The principal called me and…well, this continued for over one year until I made the decision to educate children full-time about the wonders and importance of bugs. A bug business was born. As I went school to school doing my Creepy Crawly Bug Adventure Shows children would always ask me where they can get cool bug catchers, bug houses, magnifying lenses, and the latest and greatest bug toys and games. Teachers were asking if I sold butterfly gardens for the classroom, ant farms, ladybug habitats, bug books, insect posters, life-cycle units and science projects for having bugs in the classroom. Parents would stop me and inquire about bug t-shirts and clothing, nature gifts, science gifts, bug art, and even chocolate covered ants and insects for fear factor type birthday parties. BINGO! Another bug business was born. I am always on the look out for unique nature gifts, science toys and bug related games, books, and anything creepy and crawly that inspires and educates us about nature and its 1 million species of bugs! There is a great deal to see to take your time, join our Bug Forum , and enjoy nature's bug store.

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Flies, gnats, maggots, midges, mosquitoes, keds, bots, etc. are all common names for members of the order Diptera. This diversity of names documents the importance of the group to man and reflects the range of organisms in the order. The order is one of the four largest groups of living organisms. There are more known flies than vertebrates. These insects are a major component of virtually all non-marine ecosystems. Only the cold arctic and antarctic ice caps are without Flies. The economic importance of the group is immense. One need only consider the ability of flies to transmit diseases. Mosquitoes and black flies are responsible for more human suffering and death than any other group of organisms except for the transmitted pathogens and man! Flies also destroy our food, especially grains and fruits. On the positive side of the ledger, outside their obviously essential roles in maintaining our ecosystem, flies are of little direct benefit to man. Some are important as experimental animals (Drosophila) and biological control agents of weeds and other insects. Others are crucial in helping to solve crimes (for an example click here).

Some 120,000 different kinds of flies (Order Diptera, Class Insecta, Phylum Arthropoda) are now known and estimates are that there may be more than 1,000,000 species living today. These species are classified into 188 families ( For a list of recognized families) and some 10,000 genera. Of these, some 3,125 species are known only from fossils, the oldest of which, a limoniid crane fly, is some 225 MILLION years old (Upper Triassic (Carnian)). (See the Databases of World Diptera for the names of flies and information on those names and groups of flies.)

A basic introduction to flies is provided by Harold Oldroyd's Natural History of Flies (1964, The World Naturalist series, Norton). A more technical overview and general classification with key to the basic groups (genera) found in North America is provided by the Manual of Nearctic Diptera (3 vols., 1981, 1987 & 1989, Agriculture Canada). Also see the FLYTREE project for information on the classification of flies.

Short vignettes of various groups of flies are presented above. Each covers a family of flies, providing an image of a typical species, the range of that species and the family as whole, with a summary of what is known about the group. These family pages may lead to even more information about small groups (genera) of flies and eventually to information about species of flies. Information about flies at this site is arranged into 3 levels, which correspond to the family, genus and species categories.

Most of the family treatments are still under construction: Currently there being only an image of a typical species. Select flower flies or milichiid flies to see treatments which extend to all levels of diversity, from the family to the species. Also, the treatments for primitive crane flies and eurychoromyiid flies are complete. You can also find lots of information on Tephritidae (fruit flies) by clicking here.

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Answer 3

Insects have a head, thorax and abdomen.

They have six legs.

They have an exoskeleton.

Some, but not all, have wings.

Some develop by various forms of metamorphosis.

Answer 4

They are small some are camouflage some are good luck you can eat them and some are land insects some are flying insects

Answer 5

some insects are poisonous

Answer 6

none of your beezwax sicko